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Post by daves on Aug 29, 2024 15:31:19 GMT
In astrophotography we talk about "plate scale" and "plate solving" even though the days of glass plates and well past.
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Post by petrochemist on Aug 29, 2024 17:19:03 GMT
As long as there's no perceptible shutter lag I'd consider it. You might want to cancel your order for a Daguerreotype.  I have several cameras that would be capable of making Daguerreotypes, most of the lenses I can use on them have no shutter lag at all (sadly they don't have shutters) Even for the LF lenses that might have a measurable shutter lag, it would be insignificant to the typical exposures needed. I have no intention of ever trying to make Daguerreotypes, due to the time/expense/health & safety issues of preparing & processing them. A highly polished silver plate is needed, & processing is done using mercury fumes. I'm actually more likely to use a camera phone, though that would also be rare  |
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Post by willien on Aug 29, 2024 17:20:44 GMT
Meanwhile, back in the 21st Century...
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Post by Chester PB on Aug 29, 2024 21:05:02 GMT
Once again I am forced to consider if my subscription is worth the cost. However, somebody managed to sneak a few images taken with real cameras past the editorial team, so there is a small sign of hope. More seriously, how many of the target audience for this issue are the type of person who would ever consider paying for AP in any form? If the smartphone manufacturers believed that such people would buy AP they might try advertising in it. My father spent over 30 years in newspaper advertising, and told me that the best way to work out what the readership 'profile' was to look at the advertisements in the publication. For example, my wife occasionally succumbs to some very upmarket gardening porn, and I notice the advertisements for very expensive 4x4s that have little possible use in a garden, but are perfect for running down a dog or a child and not feeling the impact. You say “Real Cameras “ as if a camera phone is in some way inferior. To my mind the best camera is the one you have in your hand. Phones take more images daily and are connected with today’s technology. It is estimated 97% of under thirty year olds own a smartphone, a figure “Real camera” manufacturers could only ever dream of. It's the addiction problem that always worries me. Take away my camera for a week and I would be displeased, but take away somebody's smartphone for a week and they would probably be suicidal. |
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Post by Chester PB on Aug 29, 2024 21:14:18 GMT
Once again I am forced to consider if my subscription is worth the cost. However, somebody managed to sneak a few images taken with real cameras past the editorial team, so there is a small sign of hope. More seriously, how many of the target audience for this issue are the type of person who would ever consider paying for AP in any form? If the smartphone manufacturers believed that such people would buy AP they might try advertising in it. My father spent over 30 years in newspaper advertising, and told me that the best way to work out what the readership 'profile' was to look at the advertisements in the publication. For example, my wife occasionally succumbs to some very upmarket gardening porn, and I notice the advertisements for very expensive 4x4s that have little possible use in a garden, but are perfect for running down a dog or a child and not feeling the impact. Even on the old forum you often mentioned cancelling your subscription. Why don’t you just do it if you’re not happy? But I get the impression that you are never that happy about anything. Sometimes there are articles that interest me or images that impress me just enough to renew my subscription. My point was that the latest issue, dedicated to smartphones, makes me reconsider again whilst I wait to see if the editor decides it was productive (more issues sold).
Re. 'happy about anything': I like using my camera and occasionally having prints done to display. However, having recently spent about 20 hours in a hospital A&E waiting room (starting from 10.30 pm), and then 8 days in an 'acute medical' ward, and the NHS still does not know for certain if I had enjoyed a very mild 'cardiac event' or just have gallstones. So 'happy' has become a relative term. |
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Post by don on Aug 30, 2024 15:29:09 GMT
Even on the old forum you often mentioned cancelling your subscription. Why don’t you just do it if you’re not happy? But I get the impression that you are never that happy about anything. Sometimes there are articles that interest me or images that impress me just enough to renew my subscription. My point was that the latest issue, dedicated to smartphones, makes me reconsider again whilst I wait to see if the editor decides it was productive (more issues sold).
Re. 'happy about anything': I like using my camera and occasionally having prints done to display. However, having recently spent about 20 hours in a hospital A&E waiting room (starting from 10.30 pm), and then 8 days in an 'acute medical' ward, and the NHS still does not know for certain if I had enjoyed a very mild 'cardiac event' or just have gallstones. So 'happy' has become a relative term. I can’t say I am happy having recently spent similar amount of time in hospital with Sepsis and Pneumonia having been blue lighted there by ambulance but I enjoyed the article on smartphones in AP . I even sent an email to the editor saying how much I appreciated the articles ( I didn’t mention my hospital visit or my close call on death) I unsubscribed from AP several years ago because I now get it online so I can recommend unsubscribing. But I am glad you are happy even if only a a relative term ❤️🤣👍 |
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Post by don on Aug 30, 2024 15:41:47 GMT
You say “Real Cameras “ as if a camera phone is in some way inferior. To my mind the best camera is the one you have in your hand. Phones take more images daily and are connected with today’s technology. It is estimated 97% of under thirty year olds own a smartphone, a figure “Real camera” manufacturers could only ever dream of. It's the addiction problem that always worries me. Take away my camera for a week and I would be displeased, but take away somebody's smartphone for a week and they would probably be suicidal. Not everyone is addicted I only use my phone for two weeks every couple of months when I’m in respite care and countless others are similarly moderate users. People like my daughter are on their phones constantly for work , she has calls in the middle of the night from installations being done by night workers. Kids are always on their phones it the norm for them |
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Post by Chester PB on Aug 30, 2024 15:45:12 GMT
Sometimes there are articles that interest me or images that impress me just enough to renew my subscription. My point was that the latest issue, dedicated to smartphones, makes me reconsider again whilst I wait to see if the editor decides it was productive (more issues sold).
Re. 'happy about anything': I like using my camera and occasionally having prints done to display. However, having recently spent about 20 hours in a hospital A&E waiting room (starting from 10.30 pm), and then 8 days in an 'acute medical' ward, and the NHS still does not know for certain if I had enjoyed a very mild 'cardiac event' or just have gallstones. So 'happy' has become a relative term. I can’t say I am happy having recently spent similar amount of time in hospital with Sepsis and Pneumonia having been blue lighted there by ambulance but I enjoyed the article on smartphones in AP . I even sent an email to the editor saying how much I appreciated the articles ( I didn’t mention my hospital visit or my close call on death) I unsubscribed from AP several years ago because I now get it online so I can recommend unsubscribing. But I am glad you are happy even if only a a relative term ❤️🤣👍 My personal medical history wasn't really relevant here, but merely a response to 'happy'. There were other people in the ward with much worse problems than mine (I wasn't deemed urgent enough to get a ride in an ambulance and a taxi was used instead). I also had an ultrasound cardiac scan and a CT scan. The latter uses a dye is injected into a vein so that its progress through my heart could be followed (the dye absorbs X-rays and so appears white on images). As an 'in patient' I only had to wait 5 days for this (no scans at weekends), whereas as an 'out patient' referred by a GP the waiting list is 12-24 months, so I enthusiastically accepted all tests and scans offered. Perhaps I was fortunate that I was deemed just urgent enough to be an 'in patient' instead of being referred my GP.
What I did notice, during about 20 hours in A&E, in that it is clearly understaffed (2 doctors on duty and 130+ people waiting when I arrived). You won't be surprised to know that I had a 'frank exchange of views' with somebody who moaned constantly about how long he had been waiting (he wasn't in any pain). He could not understand the link between voting for politicians who promise lower taxes and the time he might be waiting. Later, one of the nurses told me that she dearly wished that she and her colleagues were allowed to say that to people like him.
Re. AP subscription: do you mean that you use the 'paid for' online subscription, or just browse the website? I always prefer a printed magazine to a PC screen, but suspect that in the foreseeable future AP won't offer the choice. |
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Post by geoffr on Aug 30, 2024 20:14:24 GMT
I can’t say I am happy having recently spent similar amount of time in hospital with Sepsis and Pneumonia having been blue lighted there by ambulance but I enjoyed the article on smartphones in AP . I even sent an email to the editor saying how much I appreciated the articles ( I didn’t mention my hospital visit or my close call on death) I unsubscribed from AP several years ago because I now get it online so I can recommend unsubscribing. But I am glad you are happy even if only a a relative term ❤️🤣👍 My personal medical history wasn't really relevant here, but merely a response to 'happy'. There were other people in the ward with much worse problems than mine (I wasn't deemed urgent enough to get a ride in an ambulance and a taxi was used instead). I also had an ultrasound cardiac scan and a CT scan. The latter uses a dye is injected into a vein so that its progress through my heart could be followed (the dye absorbs X-rays and so appears white on images). As an 'in patient' I only had to wait 5 days for this (no scans at weekends), whereas as an 'out patient' referred by a GP the waiting list is 12-24 months, so I enthusiastically accepted all tests and scans offered. Perhaps I was fortunate that I was deemed just urgent enough to be an 'in patient' instead of being referred my GP.
What I did notice, during about 20 hours in A&E, in that it is clearly understaffed (2 doctors on duty and 130+ people waiting when I arrived). You won't be surprised to know that I had a 'frank exchange of views' with somebody who moaned constantly about how long he had been waiting (he wasn't in any pain). He could not understand the link between voting for politicians who promise lower taxes and the time he might be waiting. Later, one of the nurses told me that she dearly wished that she and her colleagues were allowed to say that to people like him.
Re. AP subscription: do you mean that you use the 'paid for' online subscription, or just browse the website? I always prefer a printed magazine to a PC screen, but suspect that in the foreseeable future AP won't offer the choice. A friend was an A&E consultant, his opinion was that far too many people were in his department “because it was there” they didn’t need to be there at all. In some cases they just needed to sleep it off. I’m sure it varies from hospital to hospital but having people clog up the system unnecessarily surely doesn’t help. |
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Post by daves on Aug 31, 2024 11:30:19 GMT
In this week's AP is the EISA awards, and of course the award for best smartphone goes to the Sony Xperia, but that's probably because Canon and Nikon don't make smartphones. If it's not Canon, Nikon, or Sony they don't want to know.
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Post by don on Aug 31, 2024 11:35:34 GMT
A friend was an A&E consultant, his opinion was that far too many people were in his department “because it was there” they didn’t need to be there at all. In some cases they just needed to sleep it off. I’m sure it varies from hospital to hospital but having people clog up the system unnecessarily surely doesn’t help. The definition of Accident and Emergency is lost on most people my online AP is the paid for version |
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Post by Chester PB on Aug 31, 2024 15:51:49 GMT
What I did notice, during about 20 hours in A&E, in that it is clearly understaffed (2 doctors on duty and 130+ people waiting when I arrived). You won't be surprised to know that I had a 'frank exchange of views' with somebody who moaned constantly about how long he had been waiting (he wasn't in any pain). He could not understand the link between voting for politicians who promise lower taxes and the time he might be waiting. Later, one of the nurses told me that she dearly wished that she and her colleagues were allowed to say that to people like him.
A friend was an A&E consultant, his opinion was that far too many people were in his department “because it was there” they didn’t need to be there at all. In some cases they just needed to sleep it off. I’m sure it varies from hospital to hospital but having people clog up the system unnecessarily surely doesn’t help. I saw a variety of people in the A&E 'waiting area' and had some interesting conversations with some of them during my 20 hours there. As you suggest, some were not emergencies but people who had abandoned any hope of a GP appointment (something the paramedic who came to my house in an ambulance also told me). I was admitted because my age, chest pains and the fact that my father had 2 heart attacks (the second fatal) ticked enough boxes. I can recall only seeing a few who were in obvious pain, and the triage system dealt with them relatively promptly.
However, there were also a few who admitted to having done 'something stupid' whilst under the influence of alcohol or other drugs (some delivered by the Police). I also saw one family group (the patient and his extended family), and overheard the patient saying that he had only been sent home 3 days ago after spending a week in the hospital following a 'bad heart attack', and had come to A&E that evening because of chest pains he had that day. He and his family members all took turns going outside to smoke during their stay in A&E, and the somebody had put 2 plastic chairs near the entrance for the use of nicotine addicts.
Whilst NHS funding probably explains the problem of GP appointments, the stupidity of some patients is a different kind of problem.
All the nursing staff and junior doctors I encountered in A&E and the ward I was in later were all excellent - helpful, professional and very competent. However, the older and more senior doctors disliked direct questions and the expectation of clear answers following various tests. I also suspected they did not like explaining things to somebody who knew the difference between 'tummy' and the correct name for various parts of the circulatory and digestive organs (fortunately these have not changed since the O-Level biology syllabus in the early 1970s).
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Post by daves on Aug 31, 2024 16:23:52 GMT
I've had a big bump in my car insurance due to an expensive scrape last year, I have the kitchen being repainted, and I will have to order more oil shortly.
With all these big expenses coming in I think a premium smartphone will have to be a long way down my shopping list.
But I will keep an eye out for another Xiaomi sale.
I checked on the actual size of a "1 inch" sensor (I knew it wasn't actually 1"), 16 mm diagonal so similar to a few of my astro cameras, and bigger than the sensor in my first digital camera, an Olympus E20.
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Post by daves on Aug 31, 2024 16:31:22 GMT
And that doesn't even count the quote for the solar panels and battery, likely to be around £13.5k
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Post by don on Sept 3, 2024 14:54:02 GMT
And that doesn't even count the quote for the solar panels and battery, likely to be around £13.5k I can’t believe that the solar panel has not been substantially reduced by grants etc as it would cost billions to build a new power station yet every house has ability to become its own solar power station. Reducing the need for additional power stations and our energy dependency on foreign countries. But then I’m only a little guy who has no experience in security or dependence on foreign countries whims and contingencies. I only want cheaper power. |
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