New Pages at my funky web site after 5 years!

[jimgalli]

99% of you don't care and that's great, but for the other 8 of you who used to follow my funny little web site for the different soft focus lens comparisons, I finally figured out how to put together some new WYSIWYG pages with KompoZer.

Photrio is now the ONLY forum where I have any presence. I'm totally gone (and not missed) at the other place. Ce La Vie.

I hadn't put up any new pages at my little site because Netscape Composer got so old it didn't work any more, and I was busy hauling home ridiculous antique cars and neglecting the web pages. I never really stopped making photos though. So, FWIW, here is a link that takes you to 2 new pages I just built today!! Yippee.

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/2020_Work/2020_Work.html

I knew you'd be excited! I'm the inverse of gone but not forgotten. Forgotten but not gone.

No cookie cutter web site for me! Oh no, I'm keeping the quirky weird 1992 one alive!

 

[Donald Qualls]

If you're used to Netscape Composer, you might want to try installing SeaMonkey. It's basically Firefox skinned to look and act like Netscape Internet Suite, including a WYWIWYG HTML editor that works just like I remember Composer doing. Integrated email, too. I've been using it for years, found it when Mozilla dropped Netscape development.

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks. Looked at that also but ended up with KompoZer and am already getting quite comfortable with it. It's actually easier now to throw a page together than ever. With Netscape I always had to know just enough html to insert the images and spacing between the paragraphs after the initial html was generated. Don't have to do any of that with the new engine! So after a 5 year hiatus I feel like I've made a nice gain today in our current lockdown. 3 pages built so far!

 

[Donald Qualls]

Glad it's working for you. I never had trouble getting the images spaced in, but never tried to flow the text around the images, either. My pages were good 1996 composition -- but I haven't done anything with them since about 2000 and didn't even notice when my host and email provider stopped hosting personal pages a couple years ago. Had to go to the Wayback Machine to get my developer formula page back. Might be another one or two I'll have to recover that way -- I'd swear I used to have a complete local image of all my pages, but I couldn't find it on my 12 partitions when I went looking for it the other day.

 

[Richard Man]

Hey Jim, keep it coming. Your posts are always fun to read!

 

[jimjm]

Jim - I've gotten a lot of great information and ideas from your site, so any new content is always welcome to see.
Plus, you provided the 8x10 back I am now using on my 2D, so thanks for that! I just fitted a 15 1/2 inch Wollensak soft-focus lens which I am eager to use for portraits. Unfortunately, the wife doesn't want to pose for me and I can't ask any friends or neighbors right now.

 

[jimgalli]

Jim - I've gotten a lot of great information and ideas from your site, so any new content is always welcome to see.
Plus, you provided the 8x10 back I am now using on my 2D, so thanks for that! I just fitted a 15 1/2 inch Wollensak soft-focus lens which I am eager to use for portraits. Unfortunately, the wife doesn't want to pose for me and I can't ask any friends or neighbors right now.

Thanks! I'm having a ball. 4 new pages put up just today. Playing catch up. If you love soft focus but can't afford the silver bullet lenses, go look what you can do with the front of an old Wollensak Telephoto. I feel like I got something back that was lost. Would've taken anyone else 5 mins. to figure out, took me 5 years.

Yeah, portraits of people wearing face masks isn't going to be much fun. Lots of bored photogs photographing stuff around the house.

 

[BradS]

Photrio is now the ONLY forum where I have any presence. I'm totally gone (and not missed) at the other place. Ce La Vie.

Me too...let the place seems filled with and run by with joyless, angry, old men.

No cookie cutter web site for me! Oh no, I'm keeping the quirky weird 1992 one alive!

That's the spirit! Way to go.
Thanks for sharing. Stay well.

 

[MattKing]

I just fitted a 15 1/2 inch Wollensak soft-focus lens which I am eager to use for portraits. Unfortunately, the wife doesn't want to pose for me and I can't ask any friends or neighbors right now.

You could go full "Cindy Sherman"

 

[removed account4]

Jim
Stoked !
I hope you are still doing those extremely addictive paper negatives I warned you about!
Paper and old glass is like freedom fries and catsup.. looking forward to the next five !
(Sorry for the extra work ).
John

 

[Steve Goldstein]

Jim, do you have any idea why MalwareBytes blocks your website with the message that it has a Trojan?

 

[jimgalli]

No. It's an old site with none of the current "safe browsing secure" type features. If it has a trojan lurking I wouldn't know how to fix it. For me it seems to work same as it always did. Best to you. Jim

 

[jimgalli]

Jim
Stoked !
I hope you are still doing those extremely addictive paper negatives I warned you about!
Paper and old glass is like freedom fries and catsup.. looking forward to the next five !
(Sorry for the extra work ).
John

Thanks John! Got one coming pretty quick. An 8 inch front light from some antique binoculars on 35mm film.

spare wheel​

Lots of delicious grain. Think the film might have been old Kodak high speed 2476 shellburst that was for taking pics of missiles.

 

[Ari]

Jim, your website is tons-o-fun, thanks for adding these pages.
PS- you are indeed missed over at LFP, they just don't know it yet; they're too busy making sure we don't bump up our listings too soon.

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks Ari.

 

[Roger Thoms]

Jim, good to see your still here on Photrio. Yeah I know of at least one of your threads that was well thought out and offered some practical advice with a bit of humor turned into a F...ing train wreck.

New pages look good and loaded just film on my iPad. The Pinkham & Smith images are particularly nice.

Roger

 

[Pioneer]

Nice stuff Jim.

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks Roger. Thanks Dan.

 

[btaylor]

Jim, good to see your still here on Photrio. Yeah I know of at least one of your threads that was well thought out and offered some practical advice with a bit of humor turned into a F...ing train wreck

Jim, I always enjoy your posts, your practical advice, photographs, and humor. I’m glad you’re leaving only one of the forums I frequent.

 

[esearing]

wow! Reminds me of Yahoo in the early days. Love the work. Notepad could do what you want if you learn a little HTML/CSS

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks ALL!
New page today on how 2 "front" mount a Packard Shutter on your barrel lenses.

I'll add a thread to the large format page for discussion.

 

[jimgalli]

Another new page a couple of days ago, or was it yesterday; This time it's another stab at 35mm black and white film soft focus with a Nikon.
Pinkhams are fabulous, but you can sure make a lot of pictures in a hurry with an old manual Nikon and a good French achromatic meniscus doublet lens.

 

[jp498]

I'm probably one of those eight. Pleased to see new stuff!

 

[jimgalli]

I'm probably one of those eight. Pleased to see new stuff!

Probably overstated. Eight is a lofty number, but then, I'm a dreamer. Thanks!

 

[AndyH]

I really enjoyed these! A different look for sure, and perfect subjects for these lenses. Well done!

Andy