[Leica] August 29th Apocalyptic Dysphoria; Pictures on your watch.
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
Wed Sep 2 14:45:38 PDT 2015
A friend found a nice Casio for a bit under $100 that sets itself from the NIST broadcasts, and has the usual extra set of features like chronogaph. Myself, I’m sticking to Timex. I’ve and very good luck with a number of them. Because of hearing loss, the sounds, like alarm and countdown timer are no longer useful. But I definitely use the chronograph with the choice of “split” or “lap” display, and also use the “night light” feature, which causes the light to come on for a few seconds as the result of any button push.
Herb
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650.208.9417
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> On Sep 2, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
> A lot of people don't need and excuse to look at their iPhone. They'd prefer
> to be looking at it every minute and be walking down the sidewalk looking at
> it and be driving their car looking at it. I like to put it in my pocket
> and not look at it for five or ten minutes at a time. Give it a chance to
> cool down
>
>
> On 8/30/15 9:29 PM, "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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