Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Too funny. I really cant tell if you're kidding or not but the truth tends to be stranger than fiction. I read a big fat with small print Edison biography in which it states he invented the flashlight as an overt means to waste electricity. He somehow didn't think it would have any practical use. The joke was on him as of course they can be life savers and otherwise key pieces of gear. Seems obsurd that he could be that dumb and smart at the same time but the case was well made. What's hot on the streets of NY I've noticed ever since fashion week is young guys in their early twenties may NYU guys but some from Brooklyn with DSLR's in the hot shoe of which are LED's. And LED grid. These things are so cheap and light and efficient on AA's and the sensors in the cameras so efficient as to really not needing all that much extra light that the combination is very popular. Gives their pix some pop. In a more controllable and sublet way then flash. And unlike flash they are seeing exactly what they're getting as they shoot. Its not just appearing in the monitor later. Me I've once or twice used a tiny LED flashlight in my left hand off to the side. As a kicker. I'll post one. The subject matter are the bikes. Mainly bikes for messengers on the sidewalks tied up with large chains on the streets of Manhattan. I'm not that original even all the tourists shoot those bikes. The B&H catalog is filled with a large section on compact led flashlights and battery powered or otherwise grids for lighting. Its a very exciting revolution for photography. Though they stay on, they don't flash you'd not call them "hot lights". As no ones sweating. And the ice cream is not melting. And nothings smelling. And I won't feel like a real guy until I get an LED light for somewhere in my apartment. What can I say I'm a light guy. I used to sell Phillips lights door to door. My posts next week when I set up my phone will be: I Like like a. How R U?!? The end is in site. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 21:31:37 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IPhone 5 for Rabs > > Mark, there is a flashlight app to light up your night shots. > Those phones are smart! :D > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > >> Don't worry Mark, I have a iPhone 5 and hardly ever use it to take a >> photo, maybe 10 photos in it. it's good to do appointments in the >> calendar >> or other scheduling goodies, check the stock market, take notes, and of >> course make phone calls. I'm sure you will survive, and not join a iPhone >> photo group and talk nasty about Leica's. ;) >> >> Cheers, >> Gene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 1:48:31 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> Subject: [Leica] IPhone 5 for Rabs >> >> An hour ago the UPS man handed me my first smart phone an IPhone 5 I >> ordered >> 3 weeks ago. I can not text for about the first time and listen to music >> and >> any number of other things... Make a phone call... Just like the rest of >> my >> world. I feel like I'm re joining the human race I think as I'm 61 its >> not >> good to fall too far behind you get marginalized. >> : to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or >> group >> >> Or as Arthur Miller said: not be a contender. >> Make that Budd Schulberg . >> >> I can now join the throngs of Morlocks on the sidewalks and the buses and >> subways staring at the light in the palm of their hands as I press >> imaginary >> buttons on a flat shiney screen. >> >> Soon I will quit the LUG and no doubt join a "screw Leica I'm taking >> photos >> with my cell phone" clique. >> If that happens I hope someone puts me out of my misery soon. >> Didn't come with a manual. I have little clue what to do now. >> It will take 2 weeks to get my Panther who loves the snow operating system >> so it would sync with my macbook pro in which I type now. (on a separate >> real nice keyboard). >> Will I type super short notes as I see being done by some Lug guys using >> odd >> abbreviations from my iPhone to the LUG? >> >> I hope to be be a new true believer but I know there are friends and >> people >> I'm not working with because they could not text me. Or if they emailed me >> I'd not get it till I got home at the end of the day. >> So its a good thing. >> >> And I'm reading Chekov short stories. In a real book. Which I'm not going >> to >> try to put in the iPhone. >> It charging now. Theses a brand new Verizon store at the top of my hill on >> 80th and Bway maybe they can give me some clues on how to get the thing >> going. >> I got the black one. The clerk (crew member) at the Meatpacking Apple >> store >> told me to get a white one as it shows finger prints less. >> >> It looks like the obelisk in the beginning of Kubrick's 2001. >> I'm going to put on my Richard Strauss. And try to squeeze it in my black >> iPhone. Can you make movies with it? >> Maybe I should google it and find out. >> Then I google how to google with it. >> >> >> Sent from My RabsBook. >> >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information