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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-19-2019, 08:34 PM
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Now that's luxury!:) [insert Monty Python skit here]
My university dropout son is now a communications officer for the Province of Ontario. The ministry he works for posted a live feed of a news conference on social media (held at a gas station to make a major announcement in the carbon tax wars), the number of viewers was 5, 4 of which were government officials. It turned out that the fifth viewer was my son's mother. I missed the live feed, but I later watched the video posted by a Toronto daily and it was full of wind noise and the minister's aide leaning into the frame every 15 seconds (along with a hapless driver who decided to go elsewhere to fill up). Who knew that mainstream media would end up mimicking "citizen-produced" news instead of staying on the professional path?
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-18-2019, 11:12 AM
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I'm not sure what those fundamental characteristics are and even if I complete a list, my list is not likely to match anyone else's. This thread needs some pictures, the first one was taken with my smartphone so my wife could describe a plant (one of many!) she had purchased, the second is my best attempt to match it with my DSLR (I wasted an hour, by which time the sun had moved enough to make it impossible to get a better match). The smartphone photo is 12MP, with a 35mm equivalent focal length of 25mm, the DSLR photo was taken with an equivalent focal length of 27mm, which is as close as I could get for FOV with the lenses I have. This is not a scene where any camera is going to produce art, but it is certainly a suitable situation for taking photographs and who is to say the DSLR photo is more suitable than the smartphone photo? Many good to excellent photographs involve a certain amount of serendipity and while a smartphone may be a tool with limited capabilities, which fundamental characteristic, of say a GRIII, is it missing?
 
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By cropping, of course!:lol:
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-17-2019, 05:56 PM
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It would be interesting, but I can't think of a practical way to mine for that data. How do you guessgauge the probability that sellers of used gear will use their proceeds to buy new gear of the same brand, instead of buying more used equipment, buying new equipment of a different brand or to get their outboard motor fixed?
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-15-2019, 08:17 AM
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For a moment, I thought it was 1989. CP+ 2019 finished more than two months ago, I guess it takes 10 weeks to transcribe the cassette recording of the interview, cut and paste the text and graphics to a copyboard, do the colour separation in the lab and get the printshop to do a first run before anyone sees it in a newstand. It's a pity their stenographer didn't remove all the "yeah, yeah" "mmmm" and "mmm-hmm" bits before sending the transcript to the layout desk, it would have been easier to read and would have saved paper and ink.:)
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