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Subject: [Leica] August 29th Apocalyptic Dysphoria; Pictures on your watch.
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:49:33 -0500
References: <D209047B.454EF%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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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