Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Management are being dicks - the union is paying us a visit from Darwin next week.

That would have me worried!

A visit from Darwin in these parts means you are removed from the gene pool.

Darwin Awards. Homo sapiens decline; Neo Sapiens rise! August 2014

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by slodave

Bumping the aperture up to f11 or f16 is better. Sweet spot for focus on almost all lenses, in the middle.

No argument that most lenses are sharpest a few stops down from wide open. For fine detail with extreme enlargement there is a small difference. With a picture of the moon the difference is insignificant.

An interesting side note about the lens for our aerial camera: It is a 6 inch focal length (about 150mm) that covers a 9x9 negative. The lens weighs about 250 pounds and is huge. It has a built in rotating shutter.



This is not our particular camera but our is just like this one. The lens is the round thing on the right side. The circular handle is a removable cover used to remove the lens from the camera mount. It is a chore to lift it out. The film magazines hold a 433 ft long 9 inch wide roll of film.

The entire point of all of this is that lens is designed to be the sharpest and most accurate at wide open, F4.5 We virtually never stop it down to F8. The shutter speed adjusts automatically. It can be set to manual but that is pointless.

[RKDinOKC]

Is that considered a camera for Landscape Photography?

[GH85Carrera]

All we shoot is pictures of the ground.

The pilot just does not want to fly inverted in our 206 which is a good thing.

We do a lot more than just pictures of the ground.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh man, opened the washing machine to put in some laundry and it was full of trash.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Not sure if what I ate for dinner is not eating me......

[HHI944]

Leg day....off to da gym.....I might die...

[RKDinOKC]

Be sure to stuff your shorts in case that girl is there.

[HHI944]

No shorts, I wear track pamts. My quads would make other people cry if they could see em.

[RKDinOKC]

Okay then, be sure to stuff your track pants in case that girl is there.

[flipper35]

And put a BB in her valve stem cap so you can help with the car again.

Dave, thanks. Now that the computer is back up I will grab a picture. The moon itself is good but where it borders space is weird. I play with the settings, but you don't notice until you are viewing it native size on the computer screen.

[HHI944]

Now that's a damn good idea brent!

[GH85Carrera]

Spambot reported. Danm spammers. Die!

[RKDinOKC]

So, I've thought about setting up an anti-spam campaign.

The idea being that spammers are supported by the numbers they show potential clients of how many people they have click on their spam ads. And that most computer users just don't know to NOT click on the spam. These clicks are where they make their money, not actual product purchases.

I would set up a .org web site explaining this and collect donations to run TV ads like the Truth tobacco thing to inform people to NOT click on spam.

The site would also provide a list of companies and products to boycott because they are using spam to sell them.

It would primarily be aimed at email spammers.

Do you think it would make enough donations to create and run the ads?

My email address @zipbang.com, that I've had since 1991, bounces over 1 million spam messages a day according to my primary spam filter. And my secondary filter still catches 10 to 20 per day, with one or two a day making it to my actual in-box.

[Porsche-poor]

forming a lynch mob. Someone put the last toner bottle in the KIP and failed to tell anyone so that another set could be ordered. Now its dead.

[flipper35]

We have a group of Verizon iPhones. One of the staff blocked our number on one of the iPhones and the whole group blocks the number when they do that. Is there a way to disable number blocking or at least disable the whole group blocking numbers?

[Outback Porsche]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Okay then, be sure to stuff your track pants in case that girl is there.

A spud (potato) usually works best.

but make sure you put it down the front and not the back.

[RKDinOKC]

All this time I thought a clean sock, rolled up was best.

That or an actual banana just in case someone asks, "Is that a banana or are you happy to see me?" you can say, "Banana."

[RKDinOKC]

Don't discount stuffing your shorts.

Back when in HS band a bunch of us all piled in a old Ford Falcon to get to and from the games. It was great fun and illegal now as if the alcohol wasn't back then. Anyway, there was enough of us that the girls sat on the guys laps. A bunch of quarters in my pocket started a year long relationship with the girl on my lap.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Don't discount stuffing your shorts.

Back when in HS band a bunch of us all piled in a old Ford Falcon to get to and from the games. It was great fun and illegal now as if the alcohol wasn't back then. Anyway, there was enough of us that the girls sat on the guys laps. A bunch of quarters in my pocket started a year long relationship with the girl on my lap.

I always drove. having the wheels did not have its benefits I guess.