Retiring my old web site - and moving to a new one!

Dante_Stella

Dante_Stella

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Well, I think I have had it with hosting the old dantestella.com website; the back end had become disorganized (my fault), the hosting company kept getting hacked (not my fault), I kept getting FTP glitches, and oddly, guest book entries kept piling up even after I noted on the technical page that all new articles were on Wordpress.

Speaking of which, if there are any old subject matters you would like brought over to the new site (e.g., Hexar stuff, Canon RF, etc., please let me know). Some of the pages probably won't be ported (such as for obsolete electronic items - accessories, not cameras).

The new address is themachineplanet.wordpress.com - I'm sure some of you have seen it!

Best,
Dante
 
Just wondering, how much content are you able to port across to the new site? I'm wondering if the information about obsolete accessories might be interesting from a historical standpoint. I sometimes enjoy leafing through computer magazines from the 80's and 90's and seeing what is considered cutting edge, or looking at the ads in old science fiction magazines or comics for the same reason.
 
please tell me you still have all of the website files on your computer. i have a mind to make a high quality web archive of major amateur photography websites, better than what archive.org can do.
 
All things pass. I remember clearly first finding your site, 1990s or maybe 2000, and the story about the plants in the lobby of a building being replaced with plastic ones.

I'll continue to visit The Machine Planet.

Marty
 
aizan said:
please tell me you still have all of the website files on your computer. i have a mind to make a high quality web archive of major amateur photography websites, better than what archive.org can do.
Click to expand...

I did keep copies of everything!

Dante
 
Thanks Dante - I hope you are able to add the archive stuff from the old site. I enjoy the new, but also often refer back to your old stuff.
Cheers
David
 
Hi Dante,

One of my favorite articles on your old website was the one devoted to travel with cameras. It would be interesting to see you revisit this topic, in light of recent trends in photography (e.g., improved smartphone cameras, the advent of mirrorless cameras, the resurgence of interest in film photography, including instant film) and your thoughts now that you're older and have a family.
 
Your 2003 "Digital? Maybe later." post is timeless. "maybe later" -- fantastic wording at a time when anyone and everyone was drooling over new camera's on dpreview.

This still holds true to me: "Spending all day in front of a computer, I find it relaxing to make photographs without being completely dependent on using one. "

At the time I was still using my trusted Olympus om101; Olympus looked pretty much doomed to producing mass-market snapshot camera's. And I thought that digital was my future. But I couldn't bring myself to buying an expensive gadget that would become obsolete in a few years time, just as my Olympus had proved itself obsolete in the early 90s (Olympus not developing AF etcetera). Reading your site was a breath of fresh air among the internet hivemind that had decided that film had been a folly all along and digital was the inevitable one truth.
 
Today on RFF I just referenced your article on making the best of the standard 120 negative carrier instead of the glass carrier for the Nikon 8000 scanner. That would be a good one to see again. And I just liked reading pretty much everything on there. Liked the format, liked the look.

Phil Forrest
 
all the Hexar, Canon ltm, big Fuji etc.
The article about the FSU LTM lens to flange distance.
everything is good there...
 
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