120mm film

[tomalophicon]

That's right, an adult Chimp has a mentality of an eight year old human child.

OK, so they are approximately 10 times smarter than a digi snapper.

 

[tomalophicon]

No, that's done by people who don't want to spend the money on Photochop!

Oh yeah, good call.

 

[Steve Smith]

'Easy', on the other hand...

Yes. Muphry's Law yet again!


Steve.

 

[tomalophicon]

Yes. Muphry's Law yet again!


Steve.

Now you're just being silly

 

[Steve Smith]

Now you're just being silly

Usually. However: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law


Steve.

 

[tomalophicon]

Bahahah I like it. It's definitely something I experience too much. I've given up on pointing out mistakes in fora.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

plus, you need to bribe one with food before they will use a digital imaging device.


reply to OP: okay, my peeve is calling digital imaging 'photography.' it isn't photography. it's digital imaging. digital images are made and created by purely mathematical data and electronic sensors.

Or you could refer to digital imaging as "fauxtography."

 

[ArtTwisted]

minty is a great one, because there is no such thing as minty condition. so while the buyer reads it as mint, thinking the seller made a mistake, when the unusably smashed item arrives, the buyer can't return it, as it wasn't guaranteed in mint condition! sorry, but that one is my major peeve.
an easy way for the seller to screw over a buyer.

The great auction house in the sky would stand behind a buyer if an item described as "minty" arrived in non mint condition.

 

[kwall]

"Vintage" on eBay when used to refer to something that is merely old and crusty.

 

[benjiboy]

"Vintage" on eBay when used to refer to something that is merely old and crusty.

Wow! I never thought of myself as "vintage"

 

[michaelbsc]

Abbreviations and acronyms are far less annoying if you speak their meaning out in your head when reading them or speaking them, as opposed to reading or speaking the acronym as a word itself. For instance, read, "Gimme two MGDs and an OE" as: "Gimme two Miller Genuine Drafts and an Olde English."

When I worked in submarines, we used acronyms constantly when writing logs or reading procedures. However, it was a "no no" to speak them out loud. Too much chance of confusion, especially over sound-powered phones, but even face to face. You would write or read "MCP," "MSRV," or "TG, but say "main coolant pump," "main steam root valve," or "turbine-generator."

You left out Rickover's big got button; calling the Engineering Officer of the Watch the "EE - Ow".

I often thought there should be some position that could be called the EOR like the Pooh character. We sure had enough folks with the right personality for it!

 

[Sirius Glass]

"Vintage" on eBay when used to refer to something that is merely old and crusty.

... and rusty!

 

[removed account4]

B2

 

[2F/2F]

You left out Rickover's big got button; calling the Engineering Officer of the Watch the "EE - Ow".

I often thought there should be some position that could be called the EOR like the Pooh character. We sure had enough folks with the right personality for it!

Yes, indeed. There were exceptions, such as MG-TG bus, and EEOW.

The biggest Eeyore on my boat was the cook, Petty Officer Sherrod. He had a big gold "S" on one of his front teeth and was about 6'6".

I guess no one told him that initials were a no no!

On a separate note, since you mentioned Adm. Rickover, my grandfather was in "Hymie's" class at the academy; class of '22, I believe, and served for over 30 years. But he was in the surface fleet (destroyers in the Atlantic theater) only made it to Commodore (now called Rear Admiral), because he was always an outspoken critic; nobody likes a critic. I guess it's genetic.....

 

[ic-racer]

So what's your favourite misconception in the world of photography?

1) You need to use your flash from the grandstand to take a picture of the stage 1000 feet away.
2) Overdevelopment increases film speed.
3) Underexposure leads to good pictures.
4) Leica lenses are magic.
5) Dichroic filters are prone to fading
6) Diffraction does not exist and the concept was invented by the same people who shot the video of the moon walk in the Burbank studio in 1970.
7) A more expensive camera takes better pictures.
8) Temporal separation of identical blue and green exposures to multigrade paper changes the response.
9) B&W MG photographic printing papers have significant sensitivity to RED light. (i.e. cyan filtration affects exposure).
10) Leica lens screw thread is metric.
11) Angle of view changes when stopping down (need to check for vignetting filter or hood with lens wide open)
12) Lighter cameras will make sharp hand-held pictures at slower shutter speeds.
13) Longer focal length enlarging lenses make the baseboard image bigger.
14) No one shoots film any more.

 

[Steve Smith]

10) Leica lens screw thread is metric.

Myth No. 15) Standard tripod thread is UNC 1/4-20.


Steve.

 

[Steve Smith]

Getting back to the original subject of this thread, I have been looking at some UK suppliers for film prices. I noticed that two of them have 120mm and 135mm film in their listings.


Steve.

 

[lxdude]

Myth No. 15) Standard tripod thread is UNC 1/4-20.


Steve.

True, though some say the difference matters not a whit.

So what is a whit worth?

 

[greybeard]

So what is a whit worth?

I don't know either, but I understand that it is the acme of threads.

 

[Steve Smith]

Just to be temporarily serious, there is a five degree difference in cutting angle between UNC and Whitworth threads.

I understand that it is the acme of threads.

That's something completely different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_thread_forms


Steve.

 

[Diapositivo]

So what is a whit worth?

At last Friday normal hours closing a dime was exchanged for 4.3654 whits. Whits seemed to recover after-hour on thin volumes, I wouldn't take that as an indication for Monday opening.

 

[Photo Engineer]

No Monday opening here due to the holiday. We will have to use the European market if we need to judge a whit's value.

PE

 

[lxdude]

So what is a whit worth?

I don't know either, but I understand that it is the acme of threads.

A whitty rejoinder!

 

[lxdude]

Just to be temporarily serious, there is a five degree difference in cutting angle between UNC and Whitworth threads.



That's something completely different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_thread_forms


Steve.

Some don't like the Acme thread because it has less strength. I say they're just squares.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Acme is were Wiley Coyote orders all his supplies to catch the Road Runner!