[Kiwigeezer]

'There is a need level that has never existed before'

Major Campbell Roberts talking about Aukland on TV1 now

and don't get me on to birds, there is a bloody mimic that has the washing machine error bleep off to a tee
and now it's working on the fridge door left open bleep...time for more cats

I feel your pain...we've currently got a resident blackbird that does a car alarm every morning at sun-up...a perfect rendition of. Clever little blighter (but it doesn't pay to be too clever).

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Such a nice day outside, today.
And the old 35-70mm lens is still quite sharp.

Ended up with both the manual and AF versions of this lens, both for the price of shipping off TM. The AF lens is a little beat up but the macro is still stunning for a zoom. Surprisingly I've always had better results with the MF 35-70 on the K-01 but since last use I've acquired a K-x so time for a head to head on that I think.

Find myself falling into the same trap that you can end up in with high-end audio gear where it's possible to become obsessed with the technical finesse of the gear rather than what it/you are producing -i.e. only listening to the way music is rendered rather than the music itself. That said, I guess the reason we choose a DSLR over a P&S is to take back ownership of the picture making process...

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Find myself falling into the same trap that you can end up in with high-end audio gear where it's possible to become obsessed with the technical finesse of the gear rather than what it/you are producing -i.e. only listening to the way music is rendered rather than the music itself. That said, I guess the reason we choose a DSLR over a P&S is to take back ownership of the picture making process...

Guy next door has 8 prs of Quads with the sub base all with individual valve power amps, myriad input devices from SME 12 in on Garard 301 to Linn then all the cursed digital stuff, he's got 50 k CDs...they can't get it to go, the dedicated power supply tops out too soon

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I feel your pain...we've currently got a resident blackbird that does a car alarm every morning at sun-up...a perfect rendition of. Clever little blighter (but it doesn't pay to be too clever)

Gareth is apparently popular as a cats name

it's possible to become obsessed with the technical finesse of the gear rather than what it/you are producing -i.e. only listening to the way music is rendered rather than the music itself.

I was forced into getting that one, went from employed gentleman with taste for english stereo gear
to a sarong clad back to the lander with house cow...
exagerated about the gentleman

[MarkJerling]

I like what you are thinking Mark. The F50/1.4 is a lens that gets very good reviews - they don't come up for sale that often though (I have been looking)

If we see one we'd have to make sure we don't start a bidding war.

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'There is a need level that has never existed before'

Major Campbell Roberts talking about Aukland on TV1 now

and don't get me on to birds, there is a bloody mimic that has the washing machine error bleep off to a tee
and now it's working on the fridge door left open bleep...time for more cats

You'll have Gareth Morgan camping at your place with talk of more cats! You could always vote for me. I'm a pinko left wing moderate - Somewhere between Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.

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Find myself falling into the same trap that you can end up in with high-end audio gear where it's possible to become obsessed with the technical finesse of the gear rather than what it/you are producing....

Nothing a matched 4x set of EL34's can't cure!

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that and a bigger power cable into the house

[NZ_Ross]

that and a bigger power cable into the house

fed from a coal fired power station, made with copper extracted from a suffering mother earth......

[Class A]

though question too long...
fit for purpose is the issue

Very true.

The original purpose of the 77/1.8 was portraiture and I feel that it doesn't work ideally for that purpose on APS-C. For one, the perspective compression is stronger (with APS-C, you have to keep a longer distance to the subject for the same framing) and also the bokeh is not as pronounced (longer camera to subject distances causes less of background blur).

I'm sure the FA 77/1.8 has great purposes on APS-C as well, but I'm hoping it will come to a new life as a portrait lens on FF.

[MarkJerling]

fed from a coal fired power station, made with copper extracted from a suffering mother earth......

Mmmmm. I see Solid Energy has made another record loss - not selling enough coal - it seems. So yes, bring on a fatter cable!

[NZ_Ross]

Mmmmm. I see Solid Energy has made another record loss - not selling enough coal - it seems. So yes, bring on a fatter cable!

Especially for Transit

[MarkJerling]

Especially for Transit

Indeed! We'll have to organise a valve and vinyl night!

[NZ_Ross]

Indeed! We'll have to organise a valve and vinyl night!

BYO valves and vinyl?

[MarkJerling]

BYO valves and vinyl?

Yes, that would be the way to do it. Although, probably best if you turn up with your own amplifier, and not just the valves.
Turning up with just the vinyl can work too...

[NZ_Ross]

Turning up with just the vinyl can work too...

Last time I pulled the vinyl out (a few years ago now) the kids asked ' what are those big black CD's Dad?'

[MarkJerling]

Last time I pulled the vinyl out (a few years ago now) the kids asked ' what are those big black CD's Dad?'

Oh, the youth of today! Mine knows what I'm doing when I haul out the vinyl, but they don't see the point!
I do get the "look of death" from Annie when I try to haul out the '78's!

[bobD]

'Well Tempered Classic' vinyl spinner here...


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A Welly in Wellingumboot

@Mark

Indeed! We'll have to organise a valve and vinyl night!

Seconded..!

@Mark

Although, probably best if you turn up with your own amplifier, and not just the valves.

[richandfleur]

Last time I pulled the vinyl out (a few years ago now) the kids asked ' what are those big black CD's Dad?'

My kids found some cassette tapes and asked what they were. I laughed and said that's an old way we used to make music.
They looked up at me and then looked back to the tape confused, thought about it for a few seconds and then started blowing into it to see if that's how it worked...