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Researcher U197087 Started conversation Jan 7, 2008
My good friend Tom, who will be off to New Zealand for a few weeks tomorrow, has been getting into photography in a big way, spending over a grand on equipment and appyling to study at university in Carlisle next year. He's had some of his work put up on a friend's site which I'd like folks to take a look at and let me know what they think.
http://www.banentertainment.co.uk/tomholden.html
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 7, 2008
I'm partial to the ones that have lots of clouds in them, especially right over the water.
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Researcher U197087 Posted Jan 8, 2008
We do get some lovely skies round here, it compensates for the ground.
Ed, you probably need to update your Flash player. Either that or Pingu doesn't like it, though I couldn't see why.
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zendevil Posted Jan 10, 2008
My own personal opinion, bearing in mind i can't get proper colour on this screen, plus when i was a photographer way back when i used B/W, is:
He has a very good eye for "line" & "form" & understands lighting; though the last (plus colour stuff) can these days be mucked about with using computer techno-trickery, about which i know sod all.
zdt
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
Well I still can't see it and my work machine won't let me upgrade Flash . And my home PC is currently 'in transition'. http://bonoboworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/ghost-of-old-machine.html
(muttermutter damn poor web design that relies on everyone having the latest software.)
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Researcher U197087 Posted Jan 10, 2008
"Don't get your knickers in a... car boot sale."
I remember spending £2K on a 240Mb 486 in '94. Couldn't even run Rise Of The Robots. Now I can get 4 times that on a keyring for a fiver.
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 10, 2008
I was thinking the same thing about computers recently. My old Beast cost almost as much in 1999 as this one did in 2006, and there's quite a difference in speed, performance, and space.
While I tend to be fairly utilitarian or practical when it comes to photography, if photos are meant to be "art", I'm more partial to the B&W. But the coloring was handled well in those photos there, as well.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
It used to be said that computers didn't come down in price...they just got twice as good per year for the same price. That's not quite true any more. Entry level used to be £500. Now it seems to be £350 (£299 minimum). Top end machines still cost £1,200...But as with hi-fi, why show off by buying something you're never going to push to the max?
We're thinking of a laptop in a few months.
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Researcher U197087 Posted Jan 10, 2008
A few months ago for £389 I got a 2GHz HP with 1Gb RAM, 160Gb memory and a widescreen monitor. But, more importantly, a firewire port for uploading films I haven't made.
It's a beautiful thing, and when Service Pack 1 shows up, it might stop going all wibbly and freezing on shutdown, too.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
I exchanged my smoking DVD drive yesterday. Soon I'll be able to burn my Ubuntu installation disk...and then the fun will start.
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 10, 2008
I paid a little over $3K for my current Beast. I didn't go with top-of-the-line graphics card, and in retrospect rather wish I had; a couple of K's games have required downloading numerous patches on account of some serious 3-D graphics. Then, on the other hand, my sissy little games nearly all need to run in Compatibility Mode.
My DVD drives both burned out within a month of buying the system, but when I asked for an upgrade, they shipped better ones at no extra charge, and I haven't had a problem since. Now I'd like a better scanner, but I'm having trouble justifying the purchase, as I'm liable to be too lazy to use it.
I'd like to pick up a laptop, too, as I cannot for the life of me get the Mac to connect to teh interwebs, and the old Beast's CPU makes waaaay too much noise. It sounds like a lawn mower. I'd thought about asking our IT manager to sell me an old one once they've wiped it, but then I'd have to buy an OS installation. It's quite likely that there wouldn't be a substantial savings over a new one. So, once I get my annual bonus, I hope to get that and also a new flat-panel TV; since broadcast signals will change from analog next February anyway, my "our TV works fine" excuse won't hold up much longer.
And all this talk about procrastinating, technologically, beings me back to photogrpahy... I only just bought a digital camera in 2006 as well. I refused to get one previously, on account of having bought a $600 Nikon camera in 2000. While I don't miss the inconvenience and expense of developing film, digital really isn't quite the same thing, is it?
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
>>but then I'd have to buy an OS installation
Why?
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 10, 2008
Because the version I have can only be installed on the system it came with.
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Researcher U197087 Posted Jan 10, 2008
Will it solve my graphic driver/shutdown issues? I'm actually quite fond of Vista, for the most part.
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 10, 2008
No, a Linux-based system isn't a feasible option. If I'm going to buy a laptop, I'll want to use it to remote in to the office and do work from home, and they only allow Windows on the network. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
I don't really use much Open Source software. Except for Firefox, or a few programs for which there were no legitimate versions available for purchase.
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psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Jan 10, 2008
Therein lies my other problem; most laptops come with Vista and I want XP. Sigh.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
Don't know...but if you google the name of the graphics card and 'Ubuntu'...someone else will have had (and fixed) any problems.
To be honest...if you already have a Micro$oft OS up and running, I wouldn't bother (other than for the appeal). On the other hand...if you have a PC in need of an OS, it's incredible value for money. I'll admit it was a steep lurning curve when I first installed it (it needed some fiddling to make everything work)...a) I believe the latest version has improved and b) now that I know what I'm doing, this time it will be easier. Partly because I now know where the user guides are hidden.
You could try even running it from CD to see what you think...or letting it partition your PC for 'Dual Boot' so you can run either Vista or Ubuntu on the same machine. A Linux partition can be a handy way of getting hold of bits of useful software that you'd have to pay for with Windows.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jan 10, 2008
>>No, a Linux-based system isn't a feasible option. If I'm going to buy a laptop, I'll want to use it to remote in to the office and do work from home, and they only allow Windows on the network. Thanks for the suggestion, though
But wouldn't you just save your MS documents on a USB stick and plug them in to the laptop? Lx will handle all your MS formats.
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