120mm film

[benjiboy]

Do you mean like this 120 mm Kodachrome (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[Discoman]

Oh, the humanity... Blasphemy!

huh, the other quote didn't appear.

naturally, it is blasphemy to add an h to the end of the (correctly spelled) japanese word boke.
of course, boke is really quite different to bokashi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
well, if someone really wanted to complain, then boke is spelled either boke, 暈け or ボケ
and then bokashi is either bokashi or 暈かし
well, I personally can't really complain about a word from another language, as long as they (the speaker or writer) spells or says it correctly.

 

[Discoman]

"minty"
"rare"
"hard to find"
"I do not know anything about photography but it works well. As is. No returns."

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.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Abbreviations in general drive me nuts, ...

Then you need an LOAAA. If you had one, you would know what that means!


















LOAAA ==> List of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Steve

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Then you need an LOAAA. If you had one, you would know what that means!


LOAAA ==> List of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Steve

It's a personal vendetta I have with abbreviations. I work for a company that has 3,000 (yes, three thousand) abbreviations listed on a web site, just so everybody can know what others are talking about. It's insane.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Every time I hear an abbreviation or acronym at work during meetings, i stop the speaker and ask them to define the term. Eventually almost everyone learns not to use abbreviations or acronyms around me. Give it a try.

 

[tomalophicon]

My pet hate is when people call initialisms acronyms.

APUG = acronym.

LFPF = initialism.

 

[erikg]

Graphlex instead of Graflex in View Camera magazine, that was pretty irritating and really hard to excuse. Mostly you just have to laugh.

 

[Steve Smith]

Every time I hear an abbreviation or acronym at work during meetings, i stop the speaker and ask them to define the term.

So do I..... even if I do know what it means!


Steve.

 

[winger]

When I was at the lab, I used an FTIR for most analyses. So I called it that in court, figuring it to be easier for the jury to understand, and the defense attorney made me say the whole name - Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer. I'm guessing he was hoping I wouldn't know. The poor court reporter called at the lab and had me e-mail her the spelling so it would be right in the transcript. Some abbreviations make life easier.

 

[erikg]

Like APUG.

 

[mwdake]

Some abbreviations make life easier.

Like ERCP....
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

My Lords, I would like to present to the Chamber the following Exhibit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...raditional-camera-film-makes-a-come-back.html

Let us remind the whole world the following things:

* It's 120, not 120mm
* It's not "rare"

 

[lxdude]

My Lords, I would like to present to the Chamber the following Exhibit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...raditional-camera-film-makes-a-come-back.html

Let us remind the whole world the following things:

* It's 120, not 120mm
* It's not "rare"

I like the writer's name. Someone should give him a hairy wallop!

 

[tomalophicon]

'Shooting on a manual camera means you can't make a mistake' - What's this all about then?

 

[lxdude]

'Shooting on a manual camera means you can't make a mistake' - What's this all about then?

I think it means that you have to get it right, because if you make a mistake you won't know until later.

 

[tomalophicon]

I think it means that you have to get it right, because if you make a mistake you won't know until later.

I see, so they mean a film camera when they say manual camera?

 

[ozphoto]

I dislike abbreviations in general, I suppose they are just a "smart" way not to check orthography. People write "silo" because they have no idea where they would put the "h" in silhouette, "tog" is a way to resolve the dilemma photographer or fotografer, photografer, fotographer.

The thing that disturbs me more is all the "it's" instead of "its", "he's" instead of "his" (the list could go on) because that shows a basic ignorance of basic grammar rules of the language. You find it now in technical documentation as well. That's sad to say the least*.

Also "your" instead of "you are", "their" instead of "they are", "whose" instead of "who's" or "who's" instead of "whose" can be mentioned. One has to read the sentences twice to figure where the catch is

And another thing is all the commas, dots, semicolons which are not followed by a space. When one writes a sentence without leaving a space after the comma,the text is much more difficult to read fast,and reading a forum becomes a pain,so much so that sometimes I immediately skip the text. Spaces are free, use them generously

* It's not difficult to understand.
It's = a contraction of "it is".
Its = of it, related to it.

If you can substitute it's with "it is" then you write it "it's".
If you cannot substitute it's with "it is" then it's "its".

One cannot say "I loved the camera but not it is price". You say "I loved the camera but not its price".

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.

He's just arrived with his car. She's just arrived with her car. They're just arrived with their car. It's their car, not yours. You're not the owner of this car, because it's theirs.

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

(I'm not targeting anybody in particular, just being my usual pedantic )

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

What surprises me is the depths they go to here in Thailand when teaching English - I truly get lost sometimes when asked about past participles, future past participles () etc

I'm a native Engish speaker, and once they give me an example, I fully understand; prior to that, sometimes I just look at them and go "Huh????"

Oh and to help you out this one should read:

"He's just arrived with his car. She's just arrived with her car. They're just arriving with their car. (Or they've just arrived with their car.) It's their car, not yours. You're not the owner of this car, because it's theirs."

 

[ozphoto]

I always thought that applied to a camera used in manual mode - after all you can have a Canon Sureshot and it's fully automatic (but shoots some lovely film!)

Or anything pre-35mm???

 

[lxdude]

I see, so they mean a film camera when they say manual camera?

I think so. Digitals are used by most folks in auto, followed by chimping.

 

[tomalophicon]

I see. I call it gimping.

 

[ozphoto]

How did it get named "chimping" anyway?? Have always wondered why this and not "editing" or "deleting" - after all they kinda make more sense to me.

 

[2F/2F]

"ooh oooh! Ahh ahh AHHHHHHHHHH!!"

 

[tomalophicon]

"ooh oooh! Ahh ahh AHHHHHHHHHH!!"

LOL
It all makes sense now.

 

[Diapositivo]

Oh and to help you out this one should read:

"He's just arrived with his car. She's just arrived with her car. They're just arriving with their car. (Or they've just arrived with their car.) It's their car, not yours. You're not the owner of this car, because it's theirs."

Yes of course. Muphry's law at work again.

Really, I was interrupted by a phone call when I wrote this and cut short my proofreading. Hate the sin, not the sinner