Bless Xerox.
Yes, I invented it.
I wrote my 300-page PhD thesis like that. Made many mistakes along the way, which meant re-typing quite a few pages. Minor revisions were requested by the referees after submission, so I basically had to re-type the whole thing. No electric typewriter either.One thing that I don't think is coming back is carbon paper. Did you ever have to type a letter and copy 6 people and keep a copy for yourself?
Well, in the old days, you'd stick carbon paper sheets between each pair of the 7 sheets and stick the whole thing in the typewriter and type away. God forbid you made a typing mistake. Then you had to correct it on 7 sheets. Now that was torture.
Well, that's great. So I have a question too. When I bought a 4K 75" smart TV, I also bought one of the first BluRay (BR) players, a Samsung unit. It's plays back BluRay video and also plays back 4K on DVD's.
I used to burn 2k video slide shows on a DVD to play on a CD player. But with 4K I found I could burn 4K MP4 H264 on a DVD to play on the Samsung BR as well. The only problem is you can only get 4GB on a DVD and the slide video shows were often longer. So now I just dump the shows on a memory card with loads more data that's plugged into the 4K smart TV. Also, the DVD would not read the data fast enough at times even on the BR player
Two questions:
1. Is there another way of using disks with larger storage or another type of storage disk? How about a dual DVD with 8GB. Do you know if they would work on a BR player?
2. YOu can only create indexing menus on DVDs using video editing programs like Adobe Premiere Elements. Menus can't be created if the final movie is dumped on memory cards. I understand the music industry did this to protect their processes for professional movies that are issued with menus to select different parts of the movie. Is that still the same? Is there a way to create menu indexing on homemade movies on memory cards?.
I wrote my 300-page PhD thesis like that. Made many mistakes along the way, which meant re-typing quite a few pages. Minor revisions were requested by the referees after submission, so I basically had to re-type the whole thing. No electric typewriter either.
Aren't computers and Word with spellcheck and grammarcheck just wonderful? Better than sliced bread.
You mean, like digital cameras? (Ok, ducking now….)
You mean, like digital cameras? (Ok, ducking now….)
Bravo, that man. Had the potential to be better than what we got. Am I correct in saying a shorter wavelength laser was used?
Hello I know this is weird but I’ve been trying to message I saw you had a post about a
The Agfa Super Isolette / ANSCO Super Speedex camera and I recently got one and I can’t seem to get its shutter to fire I can force it with this lever thing but the button doesn’t work or maybe it isn’t a button it’s the one opposite the button to open it the camera lens thing sorry if idk what I’m saying lol I was just wondering if maybe you could help me understand how my camera works if not it’s ok thank you for your time
Two questions:
1. Is there another way of using disks with larger storage or another type of storage disk? How about a dual DVD with 8GB. Do you know if they would work on a BR player?
2. YOu can only create indexing menus on DVDs using video editing programs like Adobe Premiere Elements. Menus can't be created if the final movie is dumped on memory cards. I understand the music industry did this to protect their processes for professional movies that are issued with menus to select different parts of the movie. Is that still the same? Is there a way to create menu indexing on homemade movies on memory cards?.
One thing that I don't think is coming back is carbon paper. Did you ever have to type a letter and copy 6 people and keep a copy for yourself?
Well, in the old days, you'd stick carbon paper sheets between each pair of the 7 sheets and stick the whole thing in the typewriter and type away. God forbid you made a typing mistake. Then you had to correct it on 7 sheets. Now that was torture.
Two questions:
1. Is there another way of using disks with larger storage or another type of storage disk? How about a dual DVD with 8GB. Do you know if they would work on a BR player?
2. You can only create indexing menus on DVDs using video editing programs like Adobe Premiere Elements. Menus can't be created if the final movie is dumped on memory cards. I understand the music industry did this to protect their processes for professional movies that are issued with menus to select different parts of the movie. Is that still the same? Is there a way to create menu indexing on homemade movies on memory cards?.
Correct. The only unknown is when. Gravity brings down all things that go up.
Hello I know this is weird but I’ve been trying to message I saw you had a post about a
The Agfa Super Isolette / ANSCO Super Speedex camera and I recently got one and I can’t seem to get its shutter to fire I can force it with this lever thing but the button doesn’t work or maybe it isn’t a button it’s the one opposite the button to open it the camera lens thing sorry if idk what I’m saying lol I was just wondering if maybe you could help me understand how my camera works if not it’s ok thank you for your time
One thing that I don't think is coming back is carbon paper. Did you ever have to type a letter and copy 6 people and keep a copy for yourself?
Well, in the old days, you'd stick carbon paper sheets between each pair of the 7 sheets and stick the whole thing in the typewriter and type away. God forbid you made a typing mistake. Then you had to correct it on 7 sheets. Now that was torture.
Aren't computers and Word with spellcheck and grammarcheck just wonderful? Better than sliced bread.
Well, you can still buy carbon paper so someone us using it.
I did use it a bit in the 80s. It was already out of date by then but my dad had a significant stash and I recall using it for some school work before I got an electric typewriter and eventually a printer for my Atari ST. Those suckers were expensive in those days and for some reason I forget now I needed two copies of some work. I recall borrowing an IBM "golf ball" typewriter to type up a big school Physics project and then finding a lesser (but more fun) Sharp model in a charity shop for £20. That only got thrown out in 2018 and I actually wish I'd kept it. Still got the Atari ST though.
There are recordable BluRay discs that allow 25 or 50gb storage capacity. There are many and numerous packages out there for creating menus for DVD and Blu-Ray. You'll need to make sure your BluRay player can handle recordable discs.
5 Best Blu-ray Menu Creator and Editor Programs
If you prefer to add some subtitles or menus to the Blu-ray disc, you may need a Blu-ray creating tool, which is why you should check this post.www.leawo.org
This supposed resurgence in Film Photography is largely a passing fad. It will eventually start to round off, die down.
The first-timers at our community darkroom hold their cellphone in one hand while agitating the film tank with the other.
Sometimes they'll bring them into the darkroom for printing and we have to holler at them - NO !!!
I thought it wouldn't do it for 4K recordings. Maybe they changed it. In any case, I stopped using DVDs. My daughter no longer has a DVD reader and a lot of other people don't have one either. So memory cards with their extra speed and storage, as well as their ability to connect to most devices, makes it the way to go today.
Can you do menus for 4K video shows on memory cards that you plug into smart TVs?
I dare to differ. We have not witnessed the demise of one technology in favour of the new one….
Good observations. No to track too far off topic, but this reminded me of something I’ve been musing about for some time. I retired 10-years ago after working full time for 42 years, working in various fields over that time. I was reflection on how many of my workplace-specific skills are no longer marketable due to the changes in technology.
For example, while I was working in a medium sized photofinishing lab (another set of skills not applicable today) I studied mechanical drafting after which I went to work in the petro-chem industry as a drafter. This was 1979 and the work was done with pencils or pens on vellum or Mylar, using triangles, scales, templates, and hand-lettering. I switched to education (high school) in 1991 and taught both traditional drafting and CAD, eventually phasing out the traditional, except for on-site sketching. I have former students working in the engineering and architectural fields and I asked if they do ANY traditional drafting for the final work and they just laugh. With the exception of the architects who still hand draw conceptual work, all final work is done on a computer.
I see this as a natural evolution and, as kal800 suggests, somethings just fall into a niche market.
I'm a boomer in your age group and remember slide rules instead of calculators. I too worked in construction engineering and witnessed the upgrade from hand drafting to CAD. I think Adobe learned the leasing sales from CAD when they went to their monthly charge for life. When I worked in a bank, I used a mechanical calculator and did multiplication with it k'ching k'chang. All these wheels turning around. And we learned arithmetic with a pencil and paper. The kids today can't give change of a dollar without a calculator. And if you give them a twenty and a quarter for a $15.25 bill, they look at you like you're an alien.
You can thank common core for that. It's bonkers, at least the mathematics part.
'We need to teach them to THINK math'
No, the kids need to learn their tables. Stop over complicating it.
The kids today can't give change of a dollar without a calculator. And if you give them a twenty and a quarter for a $15.25 bill, they look at you like you're an alien.
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