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QPZIL posted:Сука. I didn't say I didn't know Russian; you take that back.
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I get paid to go camping, deep in the wilderness. I like to take pictures of said wilderness. I think that makes me professionally homeless. I use computers all drat day, including ruggedized Panasonic Toughbooks when out. I prefer my cameras and other electronics to be as similarly rugged as possible, and I'm willing to sacrifice some image quality to have a camera that can handle a bit of rain / snow / dust because I will inevitably drop my camera into the hole I'm digging.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:32
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xzzy posted:Look at all you scrubs paying a school to learn how to use computers. I'm doing a CCNA fast-track course over the next few weeks because I'm getting back into the ~*computer industry*~ and I can't be trusted to study enough on my own to pass the test. I did my best to get out of being a computer janitor but it turns out everything else is awful (PENTAX  )
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Apr 2, 2013 21:33
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ExecuDork posted:I get paid to go camping, deep in the wilderness. I like to take pictures of said wilderness. My vagina grew a beard just reading that. You rugged, manly man.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:36
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Spime Wrangler posted:Biking, skiing, photography, computers. The bourgie hobby quad-fecta. 
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Apr 2, 2013 21:37
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ExecuDork posted:I get paid to go camping, deep in the wilderness. I like to take pictures of said wilderness. Can I interest you in the Nikonos V 
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Apr 2, 2013 21:39
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xzzy posted:Look at all you scrubs paying a school to learn how to use computers. I cant do my job self-taught. Requires years of math and stupid tests and continuing educations every loving year. The upside, is that i get to touch billions of dollars.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:42
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I think he needs a camera that'll work at least some of the time.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:42
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Friends! woot fatigue posted about this thing: http://fotodioxpro.com/index.php/vizelex-rhinocam-for-sony-nex-e-mount-cameras.html The idea being that you use a medium format lens with a digital camera, but you slide the camera to cover the image circle. That's great and all, but what if you wanted to do something like a 4x5 or even 8x10? That would be tedious! Behold!  This is a stackshot: http://www.cognisys-inc.com/stackshot/stackshot.php The idea behind this thing is to use as a macro rail and go in little steps to move your in focus area through the object you are photographing and stack the in focus parts. That lets you have a really close up shot of a bug or whatever and get it all in focus rather than a this slice. But! You can turn the camera sideways and have it do larger steps. That's great, you could get a panorama like that with a large format lens. Suppose you want a grid to cover the image circle of the large format lens? You would need two stackshots working together. Is that possible? I emailed them to find out, and it turns out they are working on it and hope to have something done in a few months, maybe the end of the year. They did tell me though, that they have a secret test firmware and some blank spaces on the PCB of the controller unit where you can make a master and slave setup if you can't wait. So everyone email them and bug them to make the thing so I can buy one, please.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:44
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 Oh, you do networking? What's your degree in?  Don't have one What certifications do you have? Haven't gotten around to getting any yet. I guess I could go grab a CCNA if I really felt like it. How much do you make again? Lots. Self-taught, best taught.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:48
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Musket posted:I cant do my job self-taught. Requires years of math and stupid tests and continuing educations every loving year. The upside, is that i get to touch billions of dollars. Doesn't count if the billions aren't yours.
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Apr 2, 2013 21:53
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xzzy posted:Doesn't count if the billions aren't yours. Counts at 4% commission. 
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Apr 2, 2013 21:54
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Musket posted:Counts at 4% commission. gently caress yeah 
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Apr 2, 2013 22:12
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Sup fellow money toucher!
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Apr 2, 2013 22:15
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How much of that 4% goes into paying student loans.
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Apr 2, 2013 22:19
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$0.00 
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Apr 2, 2013 22:52
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Hah! I don't fit the goon mold! My degree is in psychology, I work with kids with ASD, and I don't really bike (though I wouldn't mind getting into it if I didn't want to spend all of my money on photo stuff, guns, and cooking poo poo) since we're a nonprofit and I couldn't stand for us to get ripped off by the lovely local IT company I also manage the IT when I have any downtime / my kids are out sick
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Apr 2, 2013 23:04
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ExecuDork posted:I get paid to go camping, deep in the wilderness. I like to take pictures of said wilderness. You're awesome. I'm starting a natural history media nonprofit so I can do more of that and less inane video/animation/coding crap for awful clients.
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Apr 2, 2013 23:12
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Musket posted:Counts at 4% commission. So you get $40 million if you touch $1 billion?
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Apr 2, 2013 23:20
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Went to school for poli sci, am currently farming instead.  I do have a bike though.
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Apr 2, 2013 23:20
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Lawyer, retired Army, bike with the boy, golf, do no IT (I do have 4 full time IT that work for me), and am the dork room equivalent of a dentist.
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Apr 2, 2013 23:31
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evil_bunnY posted:Hey now These are all things I do. And hey, if you've got money and a technological golden age you might as well play with all the nifty toys.
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Apr 2, 2013 23:35
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I do real science with lasers and poo poo, not  computer science, have a black hipster bike with a white seat and one gear, and spend more time thinking and reading about photography than doing actual photography.
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Apr 2, 2013 23:44
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Casu Marzu posted:Went to school for poli sci, am currently farming instead. 
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Apr 2, 2013 23:49
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Holy poo poo I completely forgot about weed. Weed is the 4th element.
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Apr 3, 2013 01:47
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QPZIL posted:Can I interest you in the Nikonos V Yes. Yes you can. I'd love to have one, especially in that fetching safety orange colour. Moon Potato posted:You're awesome. I'm starting a natural history media nonprofit so I can do more of that and less inane video/animation/coding crap for awful clients. Spedman posted:I do real science with lasers and poo poo and spend more time thinking and reading about photography than doing actual photography.
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Apr 3, 2013 01:55
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Is this the dick waving contest of our lives? Not in IT, don't own a bike, and I like commercial photography. I don't think I'm dorkroom qualified.
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CarrotFlowers posted:Is this the dick waving contest of our lives? Being a girltographer you technically aren't qualified for dick waving either. EDIT: I don't actually know what sort of standards the international commitee on the waving of dicks has set forth, I just assume artificial ones get their own league or something. 8th-snype fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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CarrotFlowers posted:Is this the dick waving contest of our lives? I don't own a bike, I'm not in IT, and I have no opinion one way or the other as regards commercial photography other than I have a friend who is a professional wedding photographer and I wish him success in his business. Dorkroom qualified? Pshaw! We have both a "point and shoot" thread AND a "My first DSLR" thread - there's no room for snobbery here. Rejoice! All photographers are welcome! At least as far as I'm concerned. Isn't there also a phone-photography thread? I have a sneaking suspicion that the concept of a "dick waving contest of our lives" will make it into storytime, when the urge next strikes me.
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ExecuDork posted:Dorkroom qualified? Pshaw! We have both a "point and shoot" thread AND a "My first DSLR" thread - there's no room for snobbery here. Rejoice! All photographers are welcome! At least as far as I'm concerned. Isn't there also a phone-photography thread? Plenty of room for snobbery in both the film and medium/large format threads. 
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Apr 3, 2013 04:17
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8th-samurai posted:Plenty of room for snobbery in both the film and medium/large format threads. I'm just glad the rest of the threads have turned into the new best threads. Really takes the pressure off.
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Apr 3, 2013 04:29
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8th-samurai posted:Plenty of room for snobbery in both the film and medium/large format threads.  Pentax ME Super by Execudork, on Flickr
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Apr 3, 2013 05:29
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ExecuDork posted:That snobbery begins and ends with the Pentax ME Super. Unffff that strap owns so hard. As does the camera. And the lens.
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Apr 3, 2013 05:34
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ExecuDork posted:Why thank you. Really, the getting paid to go camping part is an unfortunately small part of my activities when averaged over the length of my PhD - field work is what I live for, but field-work scientists spend at least 4x as much time a) justifying their existence (grant writing - Jet B is expensive) and b) analysing the samples and data collected in the last trip. That seems about the way of things. I'm knee deep in organizing documents, federal/state filings and grant proposals but it will be completely worthwhile if it leads to working on projects I care about.
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People are like there's a fine line here and a fine line there but honestly, any repetition of an ironic statement is, as far as I'm concerned, leaps and bounds over any sort of fine line, or even a course rough line made from what you guys I think call sharpies for some reason even though they're kinda blunt like the face of a boxer. In relation to this Pentax super me thing anyway. My point being that if you guys go on long enough about the drat things, someone might see one, someday, dusty and sitting at the back of a antique store in a Egyptian bazaar and be like oh poo poo, it's a Pentax super me and like an idiot, they now have a Pentax super me. Like, now they own one. And after that its really just a quality of life issue and whether or not it's worth going on. You know, with the day to day grind of waking up and being aware of yourself in a new and morbid way, like the story of the man who dreams he's eating burnt marshemllows over a wood fire wakes up with an empty pillow case and a dog collar. This loving ipad mini doesn't let me move the cursor around, so just know that I was going to flesh that paragraph out on how to haggle in third world countries, including the old keeping a small amount of money in one pocket for the hopeless and sad haggle, where you don't know where you are and what money is and how you're going to get back to the hotel but you want the vase and this is all you have so please mister sell it to me and so on. Anyway, gopro hero 3 review: I hate the gopro hero 3 black. It's in the bottom of my bag in a sock with the remote, the charger, and an ipad to sd card adaptor. I hate it because everyone said it was good at low light and its not good at low light and I suspect it's entirely my fault because I have a different idea of what is good in low light that doesn't correspond to anybody else's view on the subject. The loving thing ratchets up the ISO when a wisp of moisture passes the sun. It just starts screaming to itself, resets the clock to midnight, the zone to the arctic and the month to December. It's like doing up a seatbelt on a four wheel drive on a rough track. You pull it tenderly, so tenderly, and it jams every millimetre over your gut, makes you feel proper loving obese, just because it thinks its in an accident and every time it jams you know it's smug as poo poo about saving you. And the battery lasts two hours. That is, if you accidentally leave it on, doing nothing, it lasts two hours and it takes an hour to charge it again.
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FasterThanLight posted:So you get $40 million if you touch $1 billion? If we did a 100% conservation rate, yes. Real world numbers are not 40mil. Easiest way to explain what we do. We assist Actuarial Types with maturity over their entire portfolio. If they do not have a maturity rule/clause we help them issue this, and move forward. When maturity is done successfully, client earns 3-5.5%, company gets capital and I buy another Leica.
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Helmacron posted:like the story of the man who dreams he's eating burnt marshemllows over a wood fire wakes up with an empty pillow case and a dog collar. So, you bought the ME Super?
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Helmacron posted:Anyway, gopro hero 3 review: Better than the ~4-year-old GoPro Hero Wide I have - you only get about 15 minutes of video out of a pair of AAAs.  Doing something that takes longer than that? Too loving bad.
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MrBlandAverage posted:Better than the ~4-year-old GoPro Hero Wide I have - you only get about 15 minutes of video out of a pair of AAAs. Should have bought multiple units.
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I just want to say that I really like what this thread has become. Only because of Helwootmalcrontigue
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