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RangerScum posted:Let's stop talking about math now, please.  Captain Postal posted:so if 5 are needed (and I don't think this is correct - the fovea responds to 5 photons, but the brain doesn't precess the signal, but assuming it is correct) I vaguely remember that from an old physics q. I just remember it was on that order of magnitude. Looks like it's around 9 absorbed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_threshold#Vision
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guidoanselmi posted:I vaguely remember that from an old physics q. I just remember it was on that order of magnitude. Looks like it's around 9 absorbed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_threshold#Vision drat, only 10% light transmission? Can't wait to upgrade to some decent glass.
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Beastruction posted:drat, only 10% light transmission? Can't wait to upgrade to some decent glass. Fortunately 10% of what's effectively infinity is still plenty. A laser pointer emits something like a trillion photons each second, if my random banging into google is accurate. The sun emits a whole bunch more than that.
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Beastruction posted:drat, only 10% light transmission? Can't wait to upgrade to some decent glass. Another little known fact (that I just learnt on the "stuff that blows your mind" thread) is that UV filters actually DO serve a purpose. The blue cone cells in the eye are more responsive to UV than to blue, and human lenses have evolved as UV filters to both prevent damage to the retina, and also because the lens is a cheap and nasty thing that has chromatic aberration like a motherfucker. Seriously, if you take a Holga and replace the plastic lens with a human one (preferably the holga owners'), you'll get awesome retro authentic lomography. Many animals (particularly those that hunt rodents with their UV fluorescent urine) don't have this built in UV filter to help them track their prey. Humans who are born without lenses or have them removed due to illness are able to see UV light and it throws off their whole colour cast. Claude Monet had his lenses removed during his life, and the colour of his waterlilies changed dramatically before and after. The moral to the story is: we should be asking if someone is Aphakic (has no lenses in their eye) before telling them they're a moron for using UV filters.
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spog posted:http://gizmodo.com/5678601/what-your-choice-of-camera-says-about-you
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Reichstag posted:Do you like fantastic prizes? If so then this contest is probably for you. I want to enter, but not sure exactly how.
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pwn posted:That article sucked. Engadget is easier to read and is built better. 
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Not exactly "fun stuff", but I don't know where else to put this. http://www.news.com.au/pictures/gallery-e6frflv9-1111119597823?page=8
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I just spent hours at a hotel to have three minutes to shoot a losing congressional candidate. Go journalism! 
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dakana posted:Not exactly "fun stuff", but I don't know where else to put this.
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dakana posted:Not exactly "fun stuff", but I don't know where else to put this. I was going to be all "ha ha halloween that's so crazy" and then I read the tagline 
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:I want to enter, but not sure exactly how. I added a few clarifications.
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evil_bunnY posted:The shops here are just small/crappy. My favorite online shop is actually the extension of a brick and mortar enterprise and they happen to be in Amsterdam.
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Tell him to walk by "Foto Booms", they're on the cheap side and their service is awesome (exchanging a lens that wasn't focusing right 10% of the time, which I couldn't reproduce in the store, took 5 minutes). You can check online prices in the Netherlands here.
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Excellent, thanks a lot!
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This is pretty cool. Guy gets lost at sea, takes photos, loses the camera. He gets rescued, the camera washes up 4 years later and he gets the photos back. The full album is here.
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trueblue posted:This is pretty cool. Bizaare the guy who found it thought it was that camera.
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xzzy posted:The sun emits a whole bunch more than that. Wow, that's some impressive math. How long did that take to work up? dakana posted:Not exactly "fun stuff", but I don't know where else to put this. That's sad and pretty messed up
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Some photographer stayed awake for 40 days
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BobTheCow posted:I just spent hours at a hotel to have three minutes to shoot a losing congressional candidate. Go journalism! Did you get any of Nye crying, I would like to see that.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:Did you get any of Nye crying, I would like to see that. He knew what he was doing. He came out all smiles, shook hands, hugs, gave a super quick speech and was gone. No chance to set the mood with his expressions. How about some foreshadowing though? The guy who just lost his job in front of the guy who's just about to lose his job!  Glenn Nye by RMK86, on Flickr Glenn Nye concedes the race for Virginia's second Congressional district on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in Virginia Beach. Behind him, a television displays former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, fellow democrat, speaking to the national media.
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spf3million posted:Hope he had a UV filter on to keep it weather proof what with the raining blood and all. He took such awesome photos that the red ring exploded.
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Rebel film camera with a CMOS sensor http://bangkok.craigslist.co.th/pho/2035888464.html
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I'm having a huge slugfest over in SA-Mart with the host of my photo gallery domain (Tfatf.com). The site is down, so all my business cards are useless. He's being ridiculous. He thinks it's okay to steal my 5 letter domain because he doesn't like me, and because I threatened to do chargebacks after he suspended all of my accounts. He still has all the money, and changed the domain info to his own company after I tried to transfer it away. I threatened to do chargebacks, he agreed to give me the domain if I canceled them, I did, and he reneged. The SA-Mart mod is MIA, so I'm not really sure what to do here. Only sort of tangentially related, but man, don't deal with this company ever: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=991927&pagenumber=84#lastpost At least http://tfatf.dphoto.com/ still works. milquetoast child fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Nov 3, 2010 |
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dunkman posted:I'm having a huge slugfest over in SA-Mart with the host of my photo gallery domain (Tfatf.com). Wow....what a complete and utter oval office. I hope you get it back, because that's really shady. Can't you complain to his domain registrar or something? I don't know a great deal about web hosting, but I'd like to think that hijacking a customer's domain is against the rules.
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moron posted:Can't you complain to his domain registrar or something? I don't know a great deal about web hosting, but I'd like to think that hijacking a customer's domain is against the rules. Usually domain disputes are things like "I'm Disney and someone registered disneyfuckfest.com and we'd like to close it down." I don't think there's much of a resolution plan for companies that outright steal their customers domains. Especially since I registered it through them (which is dumb, I'm never doing THAT again). I think this kind of thing goes through small claims court or something, I really don't know though.
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Wow, that is super lovely. But yeah, when you get your domain name back (and I say WHEN), go take it to your own registrar and never let someone hold it for you again This is kind of timely because I was looking for domain hosting myself, but at least now I know where not to look.
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I'm hosting with Bounce Web (also in SA-Mart) They give goons 50% off and I haven't had a single problem with them.
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FWIW, i use Apis Networks (also in SAMart) and they've been absolutely amazing. Their hosting is very fast, and their support is top notch. I'd strongly recommend them. They're not the cheapest, but i don't think that necessarily a bad thing.
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Ringo R posted:Rebel film camera with a CMOS sensor Sporting the 2.5-inch LCD display, the EOS REBEL X lets you view the captured photos clearly. 
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Russians in probably the first (documented) digital editing of photos back in 1987 (I think Photoshop came out in 1990), pretty crazy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PsiJXswiM
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Dread Head posted:Russians in probably the first (documented) digital editing of photos back in 1987 (I think Photoshop came out in 1990), pretty crazy. 
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Little late but I use easyDNS. Not cheap at all, but you get what you pay for with these things.
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Why is B&H so awesome? I just got my first order from them - less than 48 hours from the time I placed my order to opening the box. e. With the cheapest shipping option. Like $3.50 for next-day shipping.
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 Jimmy Olson is a drat good photojournalist  Click here for the full 1152x427 image. Using the kit lens Nice attention to detail on the artists part
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ZoCrowes posted:
Jimmy Olson uses the kit lens. I guess even in comics newspapers aren't doing so hot.
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What brand is CA-1011?
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ZoCrowes posted:Jimmy Olson is a drat good photojournalist I can already envision his editor: "STRAIGHTEN YOUR GODDAMN HORIZON!"
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