pklein Posted July 16, 2007 Share #1 Posted July 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just read Sean's excellent new article, "Introduction to Rangefinders." And came upon this gem: The older I get, the more I question the concept of "outdated." Hey! I resemble that remark! --Peter, a very happy Reid Reviews subscriber. No, Sean did not pay me to say this. Really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sean_reid Posted July 16, 2007 Share #2 Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks Peter. The other related section is: "Photographers also sometimes refer to "effective base length". This is simply the physical base length multiplied by the magnification of the finder. The assumption behind "effective base length", essentially, is that the more one's view in the finder is magnified, the more accurately he or she can align the two focus patch images correctly. I think that being age 18 instead of 40 might also increase a camera's "effective base length" but age doesn't seem to be factored in to the formula." The Beatles were right. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 16, 2007 Share #3 Posted July 16, 2007 Hell i thought it had to do the length is equal to the width of the photographer. i may resemble that comment all to well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted July 16, 2007 Share #4 Posted July 16, 2007 Aha, that's why you don't need high ISO...you're perfecting the concentration of...."camera stabilization mass". You're not alone, I'm afraid..gulp... Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 16, 2007 Share #5 Posted July 16, 2007 Exactly i have great lower mass control that does not move all to well , it becomes the perfect tripod. This is a very very simple technique that one just seems to acquire with great patience and some really great junk food. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 16, 2007 Share #6 Posted July 16, 2007 hahahah guy .. junk food effect....... nice ..... well... that may be bouncing at times though....... good advice .... take sniper's course ...... shoot shot shot shoot ...... hold it well without virbation ..... especially the longer lenses (in physical design) give you the orgonomics ) matcho matcho photography ...... hahhaha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted July 16, 2007 Share #7 Posted July 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Exactly i have great lower mass control that does not move all to well , it becomes the perfect tripod. This is a very very simple technique that one just seems to acquire with great patience and some really great junk food. LOL Hi Guy - and Sean I'm obviously missing out here - 18 months after quitting smoking, I've managed to keep myself to within 3 pounds of my smoker's weight . . . . . and now you guys are telling me that if I eat enough i don't need a tripod! Now then, where WERE those dauphinoise potatoes I didn't eat for supper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 17, 2007 Share #8 Posted July 17, 2007 hey i need your secret on the smoking part. Than the weight Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 17, 2007 Share #9 Posted July 17, 2007 hey i need your secret on the smoking part......... There is no secret........ tried a secret remedy the first time, miserable failure.Bite the bullet ...............calculate what other gear you can put into your bag if you give up the gaspers(the friendly ghost).they are the price of a few lenses.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 17, 2007 Share #10 Posted July 17, 2007 I failed many times myself. It is the hardest thing i will have to do . There is a new medicine that was just approved by the FDA and i may try that. Difficult task Yea the price of a Noctilux at full price yearly. Now that is sad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEd Posted July 17, 2007 Share #11 Posted July 17, 2007 .........I failed many times myself. It is the hardest thing i will have to do .......... .....don't worry about it Guy, me and cousin Vinny and a couple of baseball bats will come right over and take care of business........you won't want to smoke that crap for a while........ ....just let me know when and where...... . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 17, 2007 Share #12 Posted July 17, 2007 ..easy give up the fags and the booze at the same time.........only wanted to give up the gaspers ended up giving up both Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 17, 2007 Share #13 Posted July 17, 2007 i stopped smoking some time ago too....... it is on the level of miracle happened ) i was not exactly a heavy smaoker...... one pack a day, but i loved it and that was that...... after chrismas...... my sister came to her hussband and said that sooner or later she will get pragnent and asked to take the chalange and try to stop smoking ........... they told me and my girl friend at that time and we decided to join that challange.......... i made a date where i can back to ciggaret.... two weeks........... it was so difficult but challange is challange and i kept it - fully........... the other participants of the challange were far more forgiving to themseve those two weeks i had a very intessive project working on........ super intesity and pressure ....... and i said that i will buy a pack rite after the project is finished...... so i did..... the project was approved, and not waiting a second i bought my beloved marlboro red pack............ i said to myself..... will smoke this pack like crazy and then will see........... so guy.......... i was a kind of half back to smoking again....... well, not buying packs anymore, but beleive me, i have never-ever waiting so inpatiently to meet any woman as my girlfriend at that time (that had ciggarets with her) ........ hahahhahahahahh a couple of months ago.. my uncle had some problems with heart - he used to be heavy heavy smoker but stopped a few years ago....... in the privet hospital where my uncle had checkings, me and my cousen went out for smoke or two.......... we were back with that ciggaret stincky smell and my uncle said to us with love in his georgian languege...... "u assholes, what the f*** u do with this stupid thing in your mouth..... dont u see now what the shit it makes"........ (oh well, how smart, he is very respectible medicine doctor himself but was smoking cigrates one after another without pause)........... anyway....... syrgery was needed for him........... we bought alot of cigaret supply for this day of course entered his room stincky with "smoke time-out".... and he simply asked us to promise to "stop using this shit" ........ on the day of his surgery, we finished all the cigarret suply we had ......... ya nervous and nothing u can do but to wait and wait and wait etc etc understandable........ my uncle is ok now (though he passed a gate or two of hell with that surgery and the pain afterwards).. and now he freely keeps on shouting and screaming on his sons "put down that shit that u hold in your mouth like a "penis" - what are u - ......? " ) it is imposiible to translate from georgian those matchoistic santances, but they are so funny even if you understand that they are not so "politically-correct".............. i stopped smoking since then.......... promised to myself that untill i get back into really good sporty shape - i do not touch a cigaret........ im sure that i will not run 1500m in 4 minutes anymore, the golden 25-years-old peack potential is behind me and anyway i cannot train really systematically as needed, but at least i can get in some shape that reminds the tiger...... ) so untill the "tiger" i dont touch the cigarett - this is a promise...... later..... will see....... ok, after all this time that i dont smoke..... do you think it is so easy not to smoke??? oh much eassier for sure, but still....... a couple of days ago , my girlfreind was smoking and i had such an irrisistable desire to take a cigaret and to feel that "joy" that is a cigaret after dinner etc etc.......... well i stoped myself................. it is about passing this moments that feels like irrisitable desire to take it.......... pass it again and again............. leave all those "cheap miracles"......... probably, most of them are no more than money makers for manufacturer ) just take the challange........ get some little goals....... and resist it......... try to make the moment of irrisitable disire to pass.............. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/29124-the-wit-and-wisdom-of-sean-reid/?do=findComment&comment=307880'>More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 17, 2007 Share #14 Posted July 17, 2007 ha guy ....... leave the noctilux........ how much we can talk about lenses ) hahahhha elsweher u said that u liek porsche dont u? now try to pay for porsche with the shit u have in your lungs ........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 17, 2007 Share #15 Posted July 17, 2007 Hey Vic lung cancer/ heart attack should not be a problem for you Georgians.......... the way you buggers drive...,,, like there is no tomorrow and it seems the case:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 17, 2007 Share #16 Posted July 17, 2007 Victor nice story , Imants thanks i know for this you can give me all the shit you want , because you are right. My kids are relentless and my wife stopped 15 years ago. So not that easy living here. LOL It will come soon i did make that promise i won't go past 50 years old. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 17, 2007 Share #17 Posted July 17, 2007 ,,,, ah you will get there in your own way, as we all do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted July 17, 2007 Share #18 Posted July 17, 2007 I failed many times myself. It is the hardest thing i will have to do . There is a new medicine that was just approved by the FDA and i may try that. Difficult task Yea the price of a Noctilux at full price yearly. Now that is sad Hi Guy I also failed many times, but I'm sure that this was the last attempt - I've sent you a private mail about it, but we used a book called 'the easy way to stop smoking' by Allen Carr - excellent stuff, and only the cost of the book. As for the money you save . . . . . . just dont' spend it all on food! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 17, 2007 Share #19 Posted July 17, 2007 LOL I will pick it up in NY tomorrow when I get there. I am sure Barnes and Noble Bookstore would have it. Thanks my friend Not sure how this thread swayed in this direction but it is a good thing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Roberts Posted July 17, 2007 Share #20 Posted July 17, 2007 Hey Guy-- Quitting smoking was one of the very hardest things I ever did. It essentially took my entire 30s to do it; I failed four or five times then the last time--since 1997--it stuck. But it took the nicotine patch, chocolate muffins (only 10,000 calories per) and giving up the booze. Oddly enough, but probably consistent within my addictive personality, coffee became my very best friend Gained 15 pounds, but lost it again after my metabolism kicked back in. Now I can drink and all that stuff, and--except in my dreams, where I regularly smoke an entire carton at once (then wake up in a panic)--I have no desire for them. Oh, and it really helped when I was in a place with smokers who were drinking (on very rare occasions) to be able to hang a cigar out of my mouth. For some reason, it never led me back to cigarettes. But, Guy, the newer drugs--Wellbutrin and other dopamine re-uptake inhibitors--work really well too, and that really new one you're talking about (was just talking about it with my doctor, actually; can't remember the name) works way better than anything else, evidently. Go talk to someone. If you can get 18months under your belt smoke free you'll never pick them up again. (also exercise helps--I jumped on my bicycle when I quit the last time and just getting out for a ride every day really helps). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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