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

Sun Aug 30 16:05:31 PDT 2015

The apple watch shows you an image just slightly larger than an individual
image in a 35mm contact sheet.  Around 40mm long.

On 8/29/15 10:48 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> During the depression years of the 1930s, the Direct Positive "4 for a
> dime" pictures served that purpose.  They were inexpensive and filled a
> need at the time.  I still have a few of them.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 8/29/2015 9:43 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 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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