[Leica] August 29th Apocalyptic Dysphoria; Pictures on your watch.

Sat Aug 29 19:43:05 PDT 2015

I have a photo history book and they are talking about Daguerreotypes  also
Tintypes being made 1 inch square or smaller and the size was called "Gem".
The little gems that they were. I think often copied from a larger image.
The issue being I think not size but the bottom line. Money.
Shrink it till they feel they can afford it. So what if they cant see it.

On 8/29/15 10:25 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> I have no interest at all in the watch.  It may be handy for reminders, etc.
> 
> Images that size remind me of the stickpin portrait that my great-great
> aunt had of her dead husband.  It was sepia, and about the size of a
> "pinky" nail.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 8/29/2015 9:19 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> The point of the small screen is to just see what you can see and not care
>> about what you can't. The point is instant ness and ease. IPhone photography
>> has established that. Most won't take it from there. Now if you could
>> project the image like a clock radio on the ceiling....!! THEN you could see
>> how really bad it is.
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/29/15 10:13 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I realize that, Leo, but have not really looked into what can be seen on
>>> the small screen.  I'm not sure my eyes would work with details that
>>> small. :-)
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
>>> On 8/29/2015 9:10 PM, Leowesson wrote:
>>>> Jim,
>>>> 
>>>> The Iwatch acts as a remote for the iPhone it is paired with.
>>>> 
>>>> Leo Wesson
>>>> leowesson.com
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 29, 2015, at 21:01, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have to admit that I have gone part way down that route.  In order to
>>>>> conveniently use text messaging, I recently purchased an iPhone. Now, the
>>>>> camera is quite good, but I don't like the images as they come out of the
>>>>> camera.  I run them through my editing workflow like any other camera
>>>>> images, except they are jpg, which limits the process.  Finished images
>>>>> are
>>>>> pretty good.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now, the second part.  I have my LUG gallery bookmarked.  If I want to
>>>>> share
>>>>> an image or two with a friend or relative, I just open up my LUG gallery
>>>>> and
>>>>> touch the thumbnails along the side until I find what I want.  It has been
>>>>> quite useful, and, on the iPhone 6 screen, the images look pretty good,
>>>>> though limited in size.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Incidentally, my grandson's wife has an Apple watch, and likes it. I
>>>>> haven't
>>>>> asked if it can do images.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 8/29/2015 8:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>> One of the rare occasions in which Brian got involved in a thread way way
>>>>>> back in the turn of the century or millennium  we were talking about the
>>>>>> demise of craft and print making and how things were going the way of the
>>>>>> jpeg and people not showing you their prints but showing you their jpegs
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> a small screen like from an iPod. (a thing which played music)  Someone
>>>>>> joked maybe it was me that soon we'd be viewing each others pix on our
>>>>>> Dick
>>>>>> Tracy wrist watches and that was shot down as being too Apocalyptic
>>>>>> Dysphoric. I wonder if its still in the archives?
>>>>>> In the past few years when the iPhones took over and those screens became
>>>>>> the main viewing ground for seeing sobodies photo work; it was looking
>>>>>> bad
>>>>>> but it got worse. The Apple watch came out and I've not seen one in
>>>>>> person
>>>>>> yet. But I was wondering if you can view pix on them. I just checked.
>>>>>> You can.
>>>>>> *
>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/watch/built-in-apps/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "the smaller 38mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 272 x 340, while the
>>>>>> larger 42mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 312 x 390. "  they are about
>>>>>> 40mm's in height.
>>>>>> So things will get dumbed down even further. Or they already have.
>>>>>> If things can get worse but I think it would have to start with the Apple
>>>>>> iGlass.  Little high tech eye glasses.
>>>>>> So when it used to be people were really listening to you talking to them
>>>>>> instead of their little earphone  ( just happened in the apple store) now
>>>>>> its not just not you they are listening to. They're not seeing you
>>>>>> either.
>>>>>> They are watching the readout. What Arnold saw in T1.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes
>>>>>> self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> pull the plug.
>>>>>> Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
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