Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:35 PM 11/27/2006, G Hopkinson wrote: >Marc, I'm a kept man as well! Bless those hard working medical folk. >You keep sharing your encyclopaedic historical lens knowledge and >we'll explain the computer acronyms and terminology. Just ask a >specific question ;-) More seriously, the thread was about specifics >for that particular user. It turns out he had a generous budget >well beyond what most home users might apply. I am guilty of jargon, >sorry. By the way I know absolutely nothing about law, nor >football of any flavour! Hoppy Thank you for your very kind words. As others have noted, the LUG used to be a lot more of a gear-freak exercise than is now the case: Brian created this as the Leica USERS' Group, but a bunch of us co-opted the List for the first decade of its existence. Back in, say, 1995, we would be all a-blather over which adapters were necessary to fit which lens to which camera body and the like, and no one put up pictures. (For a long time, Tina and I and Eric and another, whose name now escapes me, were accused of dominating the LUG as "the Gang of Four".) This all changed around 2001, when digital photography erupted, and now the LUG concentrates on discussions of pictures and of computers. Hell, it has been years since our last discussion of Tilley Hats and Yellow Rat pens. I even miss those off-topic threads! As to computers, I am using a Pentium IV with 512 megs of high memory and a 2 gig hard drive, with a 5 gig external hard drive as a back-up. I have Photoshop 5 which is far beyond my abilities, and I realize that is is now six or seven generations old, so the thought of investing in anything newer leaves me stone cold in shock, horror, and grand dismay, especially as Adobe seems to comletely change the terms used in ensuing generations of Photoshop. I can make a print, either at home or through a commercial lab, and scan it, and fine-tune the scan through Irfanview (again, I show my age). But every effort I have made to either scan negatives or to work from a direct digitally produced image has led to results best described as laughable. Give me some time in the darkroom, and Bob's your uncle: I will have you a fine print either from a negative or slide. But digital escapes me utterly. And then you guys start talking of the need for four or five disk drives and hiving off separate drives on the same disk and the like and my blood runs cold. The next thing, you'll be suggesting that I muck about with my registry. Perhaps you really cannot teach an old dog new tricks! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!