120mm film

[vpwphoto]

I always measure is as 5.5 cm...

 

[Ottrdaemmerung]

To add to Diapositivo's mentioning of grammatical errors: plurals made with apostrophes! I saw this on Craigslist this morning:

"I have over 300 camera's, scanner's, and many types of sensors for material handling systems.
photo's and more info available."

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

And by the same token "her's" (that doesn't exists at all) is different from "hers", "his" is different from "he's".
The girl brought her book. I brought my book, she brought hers.
Never: the girl brought her's book. Her's makes no sense and does not exists in English. Your's does not exists in English as well. If it's yours, it's yours without apostrophe.

The problem with criticizing other people's grammar is that you have to be absolutely correct yourself, in order for the advice to carry any weight.
The italicized and underlined words above - 'exists' - really should be 'exist' in the context you're writing them. Just sayin' - spend half an hour with your grammar. It's your friend.

 

[Steve Smith]

Everything Diapositivo mentioned......

To add to Diapositivo's mentioning of grammatical errors: plurals made with apostrophes!

And that!

The problem with criticizing other people's grammar is that you have to be absolutely correct yourself, in order for the advice to carry any weight.

Otherwise..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

And whilst we're at it, alot or allot in place of a lot and writing my bad when bad is an adjective, not a noun. And just one more: It's try to (do something) not try and.


Steve.

 

[vpwphoto]

Annie Leibovitz was quoted in a Mamiya advert calling another camera a "Hassle".
A 20 something art director said Bokeh to me yesterday! Smack him in the head.

 

[brucemuir]

o puhleeeze
it's the internet
or
is
it its

 

[polyglot]

wrt its, I would just like to point out that iPhones are setup to autocorrect EVERY instance of its to it's. I had to press the "no correct" thing twice while writing this post.

WTF were they thinking!?

 

[kraker]

wrt its, I would just like to point out that iPhones are setup to autocorrect EVERY instance of its to it's. I had to press the "no correct" thing twice while writing this post.

WTF were they thinking!?

And then you had to press "no correct" once more, to prevent the last line from reading "WTF we're they thinking!?"?

 

[benjiboy]

Where does the term "120" come from?

It's just a number Bruce for a type of film not a measurement of size, as in the correct term for 35mm film is 135.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Annie Leibovitz was quoted in a Mamiya advert calling another camera a "Hassle".
A 20 something art director said Bokeh to me yesterday! Smack him in the head.

Oh, the humanity... Blasphemy!

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Oh man, I was gonna jump in this thread to have a whinge that 120 film is not 120mm only to find that I was being baited

Gee, that uppercut just narrowly missed!

 

[benjiboy]

In my experience the majority of people who use these excruciating abbreviations i.e Tog, Hassy, Cron are beginners who want to sound hip .

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Here are some that completely irritate me:
Bokeh - Please kill me by saying it one more time.

"Bokeh" !

My worst favorite is "tonality" as an evaluative term: "this developer gives me such great tonality!" or "by I can't achieve the same tonality with modern paper like I did with GAF paper in Selectol".

Process controls highlights, shadows, midtones, Zones if you want, but there's no such thing as a developer for "tonality" since tonality is the sum total of all individual tones, whatever they may be.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

Hearing somebody say, "Infrared (or ultraviolet) light..."

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

"Bokeh" !

My worst favorite is "tonality" as an evaluative term: "this developer gives me such great tonality!" or "by I can't achieve the same tonality with modern paper like I did with GAF paper in Selectol".

Process controls highlights, shadows, midtones, Zones if you want, but there's no such thing as a developer for "tonality" since tonality is the sum total of all individual tones, whatever they may be.

You killed me!

I don't see what's wrong with tonality as an expression of picture quality. It is a word that neatly sums up all of the tonal qualities in a print. Why is it wrong to use it as such? It's a word that is not disapproved of according to Merriam Webster:
Tonality
'the arrangement or interrelation of tones of a work of visual art'

That is in fact how the word is defined. I realize it may still be your worst favorite, but I felt it appropriate to point that out. If for no other reason than to 'kill you back' a little.

 

[ndrs]

Most of my favourites have been named already but I'd like to add 'optics', frequently used in the meaning of a lens. I've seen similar usage in several languages and it keeps irritating me.

Optics -- branch of science dealing with vision, light, and sight.

 

[David Brown]

newbie, newb, noob ...

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

You killed me!

I don't see what's wrong with tonality as an expression of picture quality. It is a word that neatly sums up all of the tonal qualities in a print. Why is it wrong to use it as such? It's a word that is not disapproved of according to Merriam Webster:
Tonality
'the arrangement or interrelation of tones of a work of visual art'

That is in fact how the word is defined. I realize it may still be your worst favorite, but I felt it appropriate to point that out. If for no other reason than to 'kill you back' a little.

Welll I think it's because no product can give you "better" tonality, despite what people say: your tones are more or less determined in decreasing order of importance by subject, film spectral sensitivity, filters, exposure, and the interrelation of characteristic curves of film/paper.

 

[Vaughn]

Hearing somebody say, "Infrared (or ultraviolet) light..."

It is UV light. There is "visible light" and light that is outside the human ability to see (but other animals can see beyond the wavelengths human can see.)

NASA calls it "UV light", too.

http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/uv.html

 

[Terrence Brennan]

It is UV light. There is "visible light" and light that is outside the human ability to see (but other animals can see beyond the wavelengths human can see.)

NASA calls it "UV light", too.

http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/uv.html

I stand corrected!

 

[Vaughn]

I stand corrected!

Thanks for bringing it up -- it is one of those things one says without really thinking out it too much...and a good excuse for me to do a little research. UV (ultraviolet) light is the light above violet and infrared light is the light below red. Respectively, we have X-rays and microwaves beyond these which no one calls types of light, as far as I know.

 

[Steve Smith]

Invite is a verb. An invitation is the thing you send to someone.


Steve.

 

[bblhed]

Why is it UV light and IR radiation, oh wait, that's heat, never mind. Hold on, shouldn't it be IR energy? Nope, that would confuse people into thinking you were talking about the IR light that insects can see, but they see IR heat as well, but we still call it IR radiation.

Add me to the people that hate people that say "Film, they still make that".

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

I'm not yet ripe for taking a stand on the "18% gray" thing (cf. here for an explanation http://www.bythom.com/graycards.htm)--and no personal gripe with Terence above, BTW--but if coaxed into it, I could get started...

Another one of my favorite photography misconception is that salt water will be as effective as hypo-clearing because the guys in the US Navy noticed that sea water rinsed fixer better than drinking water.

 

[lxdude]

Spend half an hour with your grammar, it's your friend

When my grammar was alive, I often spent much more than half an hour with her. Though I did say she's my friend.

PS Being a foreigner I have a grammatical license to kill, so now don't shoot at me in retaliation

Here, nobody's a foreigner-
well, except digi-chauvinists.