Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

Coming in for a pickup. An amazing bit of stealth aeronautical design.

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from the linked article: "Storks as models for big jets"

 

[beans-on-toast]

When studying problems in engineering, it pays to look to nature for queues. What evolution has accomplished in biological systems is staggering. We've only scratched the surface in trying to understand them. It's truly humbling.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Gonna say I'm not good with engineering biological systems. What I observe is with a very complicated piece of engineering like a Boeing 767, you're going to get very predictable results if you follow the manual. Tighten a bolt that holds seat 23 in place and it's a done deal.

Were a human a Boeing 767, if you tighten the bolt for seat 23, the tail may fall off.

What I am good with is the news I neglected to share right away - my doctor pulled my prescription for cholesterol. Gonna say I'm good with taking fewer prescriptions and I do declare needing none is optimal. That goes for peripherals, too, like glasses.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Very well done on the meds.

An engineering example of adopting biological queues is computer vision. Camera images are used in assembly line inspection, identifying people and reading license plates, tracking objects in space, the air, camera autofocus, reconstructing 3D images from thin depth of field 2D slices, even cell identification and tracking in medical diagnostic testing.

Understanding how we see and how our brains process visual information can help with developing computer algorithms to solve these problems.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Very well done on the meds.

An engineering example of adopting biological queues is computer vision. Camera images are used in assembly line inspection, identifying people and reading license plates, tracking objects in space, the air, camera autofocus, reconstructing 3D images from thin depth of field 2D slices, even cell identification and tracking in medical diagnostic testing.

Understanding how we see and how our brains process visual information can help with developing computer algorithms to solve these problems.

Thankee sai re: fewer prescriptions.

Autofocus. Nikon is of course the Fender for photojournalists back when cameras are all analog. Good lenses, not great lenses, but very good lenses. Very serviceable. There's no "zing" in your eye like with a Leitz lens but it's the same feeling when you've got the focus dialed in perfectly. And there's the light to consider, all these things .... sure a computer can do it better but the very thing that makes a photograph human is gone.

And this from one who hauled a pair of cameras (one 35mm lens, one 90 mm lens covers everything) and now relies on all sorts of engineering that fits in my back pocket better than a Trace Elliot Elf. So I use it, but gonna say just like the computer chess champion, I'd rather have some imperfection that is mine.

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

[GonePlaid]

Thankee sai re: fewer prescriptions.

Autofocus. Nikon is of course the Fender for photojournalists back when cameras are all analog. Good lenses, not great lenses, but very good lenses. Very serviceable. There's no "zing" in your eye like with a Leitz lens but it's the same feeling when you've got the focus dialed in perfectly. And there's the light to consider, all these things .... sure a computer can do it better but the very thing that makes a photograph human is gone.

And this from one who hauled a pair of cameras (one 35mm lens, one 90 mm lens covers everything) and now relies on all sorts of engineering that fits in my back pocket better than a Trace Elliot Elf. So I use it, but gonna say just like the computer chess champion, I'd rather have some imperfection that is mine.

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I haven't been taking many pics since my daughter grew up(POS phone shots notwithstanding), but my go-to lens for my Minolta[RIP]was a 28-200mm. One lens for everything.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I haven't been taking many pics since my daughter grew up(POS phone shots notwithstanding), but my go-to lens for my Minolta[RIP]was a 28-200mm. One lens for everything.

That lens must have weighed as much as the camera. I have an 80-200 Nikkor that I used with my Nikon F3. Another heavy setup.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Thankee sai re: fewer prescriptions.

Autofocus. Nikon is of course the Fender for photojournalists back when cameras are all analog. Good lenses, not great lenses, but very good lenses. Very serviceable. There's no "zing" in your eye like with a Leitz lens but it's the same feeling when you've got the focus dialed in perfectly. And there's the light to consider, all these things .... sure a computer can do it better but the very thing that makes a photograph human is gone.

And this from one who hauled a pair of cameras (one 35mm lens, one 90 mm lens covers everything) and now relies on all sorts of engineering that fits in my back pocket better than a Trace Elliot Elf. So I use it, but gonna say just like the computer chess champion, I'd rather have some imperfection that is mine.

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I've used Leitz optics in microscopes. Excellent lenses that are very expensive.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Happy Wednesday, GOFs

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[GonePlaid]

That lens must have weighed as much as the camera. I have an 80-200 Nikor that I used with my Nikon F3. Another heavy setup.

Yeah, it wasn't light, but being able to not hafta carry others made up for it., My understanding is that I could get a digital SLR body to use it on but it's a low priority-for now.

 

[Passinwind]

When studying problems in engineering, it pays to look to nature for cues. What evolution has accomplished in biological systems is staggering. We've only scratched the surface in trying to understand them. It's truly humbling.

For sure. My old fisheries research gig was a real eye opener that way. In one project we were looking at fish ears and how well adapted they were to predator cues. The ear spacing in American shad parses to the wavelength of dolphin echolocation clicks, for instance. Proposition: people with beachball heads are all about the bass.

 

[spiritbass]

For sure. My old fisheries research gig was a real eye opener that way. In one project we were looking at fish ears and how well adapted they were to predator cues. The ear spacing in American shad parses to the wavelength of dolphin echolocation clicks, for instance. Proposition: people with beachball heads are all about the bass.

 

[GwenOnBass]

That lens must have weighed as much as the camera. I have an 80-200 Nikor that I used with my Nikon F3. Another heavy setup.

Yeah the Nikon F3 was THE camera to own.

Often thought a Zoom lens would be great to use and that's as far as that thought went. The 180 mm didn't see a great deal of use, but on those times when it is needed, hey.

There's a lady who took her masters in atomic chemistry (think that's right?) at the Sorbonne some pretty sophisticated stuff that I never made any attempt to understand. She does (did? it's been a few decades since we crossed paths) work with the molecular structures of glass. When I say Leitz and Zeiss she says woah, American lens manufacture is far beyond that. She's talking, um, not consumer grade lenses ....

 

[Passinwind]

There's a lady who took her masters in atomic chemistry (think that's right?) at the Sorbonne some pretty sophisticated stuff that I never made any attempt to understand. She does (did? it's been a few decades since we crossed paths) work with the molecular structures of glass. When I say Leitz and Zeiss she says woah, American lens manufacture is far beyond that. She's talking, um, not consumer grade lenses ....

Miles Davis was in on that, who but a Company Man would dress that way? Not for nothing that one of his biggest hits was Someday My Prints Will Come. You still have that decoder ring, eh?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Miles Davis was in on that, who but a Company Man would dress that way? Not for nothing that one of his biggest hits was Someday My Prints Will Come. You still have that decoder ring, eh?

Company men recognize each other by their Rolex

Saw a pharmacy a couple years back in Weed, California that sill had a sign up for film to prints in an hour.

 

[Passinwind]

Saw a pharmacy a couple years back in Weed, California that still had a sign up for film to prints in an hour.

Weed will sometimes do that time warp thing to you, or so I'm told.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Weed will sometimes do that time warp thing to you, or so I'm told.

 

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[Jeff Scott]

Yeah the Nikon F3 was THE camera to own.

Um, er (clears throat.........)

Canon F1 FTW, original, or the "n" version (one of which I had for many years).

I do have an F2 Photomic in my collection with a small smattering of lenses for it, including a 50/3.5 Micro-Nikkor with extension tube. IIRC, I also have a FE that I have never tried using. For about a year, (until I came to my senses and sold it all for my first Linhof Technika), I owned an FM2 with several prime Nikkor lenses (24/2.8,35/2, 50 2.8 Micro-Nikkor, 105/2.5, 200/4).

After decades of owning/using view cameras (mostly field/technical ones-a couple of Wistas, a Horseman, several Linhofs, and an Ebony) I am back in the Canon fold, a 6D and threeeeeeeee L-Series zoom lenses, although I keep thinking about getting a few TS-E lenses ($$$$$$$$$$).

 

[alaskaleftybass]

We just watched the first new episodes of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, produced by Jimmy Kimmel. While it was somewhat humorous, it didn't capture the true spirit of either shows as I remembered them in the 70's.

The actors were waaaay too animated-- almost caricatures of the originals. The actors weren't that well matched up to the originals. I felt sad and missed those happy, innocent times. So we went to Youtube and watched a couple of the originals. Happy ending!