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I was showing some guests a set of slides from a previous gathering, using a cheap slide viewer. All the guests enjoyed the neat pictures and though the vieer was a great idea, and were very receptive to my comments on how nice slides were.

Then a young lady asked me, "How do you get the pictures on the slides? Do you tell the store to transfer them?"

Never saw slides before.
 
But what you are not telling is : How did you get your files transferred to slides then? ;) This is not really a joke, I remember about a year ago a pro mentioning on FM forums that an editor refused his 1Ds files "because they were digital" and that the same guy was over the moon with the results when he had them printed out to 18x24 transparancies....
 
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I've been asked if they make film for cameras that old(anything non slr before 1980), and does that camera shoot color or black and white?I've also been asked to show a shot I just did on my pentax k-1000.
 
jaapv said:
This is not really a joke, I remember about a year ago a pro mentioning on FM forums that an editor refused his 1Ds files "because they were digital" and that the same guy was over the moon with the results when he had them printed out to 18x24 transparancies....
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That's about as funny as the "purely analog" guys who scan their film, touch it up with PS, and display in their 'on-line galleries'. Yup... purely analog (or is that 'analogue') photography.
 
I took a couple of photos with my M2 in a well-known clothing store. Unbeknownst to me, the store had a no-photo policy. One of the employees requested that I delete these photos. I tried to explain that I was shooting film. He gave me one of the most incredulous looks I 've ever seen.
 
When I was teaching a discussion section on East Asian history, I brought in some slides of temples in Japan, and the students were absolutely floored. They had never seen a slide show other than from 50 feet away in a giant auditorium, so when they saw slides taken with Velvia, E100G etc, taken on modern Leica and Voigtlander lenses with a Leica projector they were really shocked at how "real" it looked. Especially since there were only 18 students and they were close to the screen. They were all used to digital projection, and slides still obliterate it in quality, so it is quite something if you have never seen a good slide show.
 
When I used to travel for a living, I was on a plane that was in the process of taking off - the Flight Attendant had asked everyone to turn off all electronics - cell phones, pagers, PDAs, laptop computers, DVD players, GameBoys, and so on. She saw me taking photos out of the window with my 1953-era Agfa Karat IV and came over to ask me to turn it off. I explained it had no batteries and didn't use electricity at all; I got the same puzzled expression ya'll have been describing.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Funny isn't it. Digital is so new, so unfinished - yet so many think it is the only game out there.

I rememder using a sony casette walkman on a flight in the early 90's and the attendant didn't get that my analog tape player wasn't a threat to her captain's plane. She got all militant about it. I tried to hand it to her and that sacred her off. Later I watched the movie with my headphones and avoided the 5 dollar fee to watch a crappy flick.

I think most have truly forgotten that there is an entire world of non-electronic devices out there. Try asking for a bottle opener these days. You get the same expression that dogs give when we talk to them.
 
I think it is obvious now that how little the general public knows about camera equipment past the P&S models you see at your local electronic stores.

Back in the days(recent days), it was the silver Canon 35mm Rebels and APS format P&S cameras. Nowadays, they only know of the P&S digicams. This is just the facts of life, no need to get all "oh my gosh! They didn't what my Fed with the badass lens is!"
 
ywenz said:
I think it is obvious now that how little the general public knows about camera equipment past the P&S models you see at your local electronic stores.

Back in the days(recent days), it was the silver Canon 35mm Rebels and APS format P&S cameras. Nowadays, they only know of the P&S digicams. This is just the facts of life, no need to get all "oh my gosh! They didn't what my Fed with the badass lens is!"
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I think it's more about an apparent inability to recognize something mechanical. Kind of an amusement on our part, really.

I kind of think that most of us on this forum have a little McGuyver in us. An ability to recognize a simple tool and it's possibilities.

As for me? I don't care if others can't recognize my cameras or not. Less hassle for me in explaining.
 
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Its OK, people sometimes are just plain" thick ". I once succeeded in convincing a class of 18+year olds that because you can get gas powered refrigerators and freezers, you can get gas powered TVs as well, not one of them questioned the logic. that was at a Univercity!!!!!
 
I call it techno illiteracy, my dad's main hobby was making replica antique furniture with tools from the same period. He used chisels to make mortices and tongue and groove joints, hand planes to smooth out the wood. Pretty basic stuff and a dying art too. People were amazed he did not use a power tool.
We are the true rebels in the binary universe we live in.

Bill
 
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Its OK, people sometimes are just plain" thick ". I once succeeded in convincing a class of 18+year olds that because you can get gas powered refrigerators and freezers, you can get gas powered TVs as well, not one of them questioned the logic. that was at a Univercity!!!!!
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I am thick. Please explain why we cannot McGuyver a gas powered TV.

Clarence
 
I put a canon digital strap on my Iskra folder. That gets some good grins :)

I've yet to be stopped and asked how many megapixels it is, though...
 
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I call it techno illiteracy, my dad's main hobby was making replica antique furniture with tools from the same period. He used chisels to make mortices and tongue and groove joints, hand planes to smooth out the wood. Pretty basic stuff and a dying art too. People were amazed he did not use a power tool.
We are the true rebels in the binary universe we live in.

Bill
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What makes me crazy is when people make perfectly good furniture, then beat on it with chains and call it 'weathered'. Freaks.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
clarence said:
I am thick. Please explain why we cannot McGuyver a gas powered TV.

Clarence
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If I'm correct, I think John Robertson was referring to "absorption" style refrigeration devices - which require the burning of propane (or equivalent) to heat a process fluid - more than generally using a generator to make electricity.

Absorption refrigeration machines don't use electricity, at least not for the refrigeration cycle.

Okay, sorry for the OT digression - now, back to our regularly scheduled thread.


Cheers,
--joe.
 
bmattock said:
What makes me crazy is when people make perfectly good furniture, then beat on it with chains and call it 'weathered'. Freaks.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
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My mom bought some coffee table sorta thing for our TV room. It looks all beat up and what not. She gets pissed at me when I put my feet on it while I'm watching TV. I really can't understand how I'm "ruining" it. Using the logic of buying "distressed" furnitue, I'm only adding to its beauty...
 
BTW, I'm 21 and I didn't see a real slide show until a year ago and that was in my photography class at my university.
 
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