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

Robert Adler rgacpa at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 18:29:01 PDT 2015 

When I retired I took my watch off and put it in a drawer. If I want the
time, I look at my iPhone.
I don't miss it one bit: it's liberating. I don't care what time it is or
what day it is. If I need to make an appointment, I look at my iPhone.
Free at last, free at last...
It's all about your frame of mind I guess...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Its confusing perhaps the apple watch coming in two sizes and there is the
> pixel size vs. the millimeter size of both. I'm betting that had Dick Tracy
> had the option he'd have gone with a smaller dial size. That thing had to
> get in the way when he was collaring a perp... get  caught on something.
> Coincidently I'm down a watch.  There is no watch on my wrist for a month
> now this is a new first a new low I was saving for a new lens now I'm
> saving
> for a new laptop.
> I have like a lot of people (guys?) a cigarbox filled with cheap watches
> which don't work. The question being which one to bring in and try to get
> fixed and for how much? This is complicated by living in NYC with everyone
> sworn to rip you off like the dog which you are.
> Getting one fixed cost the same as fixing an old one would be the thing.
> The
> thing which has made for a cigar box filled with mystery watches  (what
> went
> wrong with this one?)
> All I really want is a Timex like I had as a kid in the 50's (in NY). To
> get
> one I need a Time machine you sit in and a big wheel goes round and round
> as
> designed by George Pal.
> Using an iPhone for a pocket watch is very common right not but its not me.
> I'm a watch  guy.
> I want something on my wrist which shows me the time and looks like a
> watch.
> It dos not have to light up and say "kiss me baby".
> The step counter in my iPhone I find to be quite a deal changer since May
> I've done well with it its called Pacer and like many things free it acts
> like it. I've lost a ton of weight and can see clearly when I'm sloughing
> off or being erratic and by how much.
> I need something which cost real money and works really with an interface
> not designed by a mouseketeer. .
> A Fitbit on my wrist might be the thing. Or another of the dozen brands.
> They all look like watches. I guessing they are watches.
> My price point is $99.
> When its overcast my sundial does not work so well.
>
>
> On 8/30/15 7:49 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > What you are quoting is the overall case size.  The screen size on the
> > large one is slightly larger than 24x30mm, and they show an add whereby
> > the entire screen is filled with thumbnails, so I assume you can display
> > a single image to that size.
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> > On 8/30/2015 6:05 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >> 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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