Knuckledragger

Re: The "Ogre Load" pic that Stretch posted.

Nothing I did today is as cool as what Craig did. Tonight I'm leaving for an event that goes until Sunday afternoon. I'm supposed to DJ at it ...at some point.

Good luck, and I hope you get ample time to work with the 100-400L. Do you have a monopod?

Locked myself out of my house... ...but I got my Macintop back!

C41 process B&W film is a crap shoot. I can come out looking amazing, or it can be horrid. Unfortunately, the outcome is less affected by your skill at exposing it right, and more by the development process. I have shot quite a bit of Kodak BW400CN, below are some (mixed) results: Really good: Very bad: Both sets were taken with the same camera and lens, and developed by the same lab. At some point, the lab got some new staff, who are unbelievably incompetent. So bad that I don't use them any more. My only other comment on B&W film is that Tri-X is one of the most forgiving film stocks in the world. It has a huge exposure latitude, allowing the user to get some kind of image even in difficult circumstances. Most of my friends who shot old, manual cameras favor it for that reason.

Storm over, neither me nor my electricity were knocked out.

HOLY SHIT EPIC THUNDERSTORM OF DEATH unfolding here in W.Mass. Thunder is so loud it's drowning out my Quads, the sky is nearly constant series of lightning flashes, and it's pouring rain. In case this is my last slow forum post, send my love to Hydro Idiocy, and give my Beyers to Reks. I know how much he loves them. Rels: "Just because you're dead, doesn't mean I won't banb you."

Had my oil burner cleaned, and then helped mum move 2 mable top chests and a bookcase down from my stepfather's room. It was about 97 degrees today. 0_o

Srsly. As soon as Apple refreshes the grater, I am SO buying one. I have an .edu discount which will knock $300 or so off. It's still going to cost me enough to make even audiophiles blink (with monitor think KGBHSE levels.) Still, I am a photographer. Scanning film and editing photos on a (early 2008) Macbook is a unique form of hell.

Your Macbook luck does not appear to be as good as your phone, luck, boomana. You said the keyboard issue kept getting worse? The Genius Bar tech said that he thought it was a software issue, but I have my doubts. I can only fix it via a complete powercycle (off and back on) and not a reboot. One other issue I forgot to mention is that the camera on the lappy has random, but infrequent, issues at startup. Sometimes when I power up the lappy, the camera light comes on almost immediately, and the camera itself won't work with apps like Photo Booth. Since I never use the camera, it was a minor issue for me. The Genius guy said it might be a symptom of a larger problem. I'm supposed to get a call from an Apple repair tech in the next day or so. They're going to dell me what the (physical) damage is, and how long it will take to fix it. Hopefully it will cost me $0, as I have over a year of AppleCare left. In the interim, I'm stuck on this ca. 2001 Pentium IV Dell running XP. It is ...worse than I remembered. When you don't run a Windows box for a long time and power it up, there's approximately 847 things that want to update, and Windows is of course a complete nagging bitch about it. I love being forced to reboot six times before I can rung FFX to check my sodding email. I had to talk myself out of impulse buying a Mac Mini when I was in the Apple store and now I'm kind of wishing I did.

Organic split pea soup (no ham) and a cup of Bromley tea.

QFT.

Yet another flash diffuser. This one is much bigger and adjustable. It remind me of the top of a blender.

For Reks: This friend of a fried has an IR-modified D50: Mother's Day 2010 - Como Zoo, St. Paul, MN - a set on Flickr Image quality looks really good. Maybe these will help motivate you to modify your D70