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Post by jdd2 on Mar 21, 2023 16:44:12 GMT -5
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 21, 2023 17:31:47 GMT -5
"It’s unclear what will happen to the nearly 25 years’ worth of reviews, news, and photography that have come from the site."
I have a pretty good idea, jdd. A guy named Brooks Jensen runs a photo magazine. He once said he frequently gets inquiries from the families of deceased photographers about what to do with the remnants of all that effort. A summary of his answer: nobody has any interest, no museum will have any interest, etc. That probably isn't true of Howard's dad but otherwise the only reason to take photographs is out of love.
Or if you have a horse in Montana.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 21, 2023 18:51:14 GMT -5
PS: I've recently discovered that some mistakes of mine in the past have screwed up my fairly new computer. The tech always asked me if I wanted something on the old computer transferred from the old computer to the new. Sounded good to me. The transition seemed seamless. I always said yes.
I'm now discovering that although I now have Windows 11, fully updated, I can't communicate with much of anything any more. My mindless inertia for the last decade or so is causing some major problems. I may have to hire someone to make whatever adjustment is necessary to make mine workable, which isn't a trivial expense for us.
Somehow I thought to check the user's manuals for my 7-year old computer, a Canon 80D. It had a separate manual for connecting with the internet. I can readily guess why I never looked at it. For one thing, I doubt that I was the only Canon user with low tech skills or the need for a quick replacement. My prior camera hadn't survived an accidental fall into a creek.
I probably couldn't have imagined a need for a quick connection unless you always set a camera on auto. I almost never did. I knew how to get better photos manually as long as I didn't screw up. Such a connection would just have enabled me to send unprocessed photos to the internet. Even smartphones automatically do some retouching before you ever see a photo. Otherwise they would faithfully record every blemish and line and produce artificially ugly photos. How often do we see a photo of a friend and start looking at lines and blemishes? Mine readily got to the internet by a different route that seemed superior, in this case via a processing program. That's was fully foreseeable to Canon.
I wondered if the method in the old manual was any good. I checked on a Canon website to find out. Short answer: Sorry, it only works for the following cameras. Mine wasn't there. I've always wondered why, at least if you're a Canon or a Microsoft, software for "old" products can't readily be modified so as to keep those cameras supported? If the antitrust laws hadn't been essentially nullified by court decisions, there might have been a strong incentive not to do such things.
Amazon has the same model of Canon for sale even now, presumably with an updated manual that connects to a site that will support it. It would almost make a guy wonder.
Couldn't keep myself from digressing into a significant issue our household is now facing.
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Post by millring on Mar 21, 2023 18:57:24 GMT -5
IceSha's following in Breeze's footsteps. (National ranking for 2022 came in the mail today)
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Post by Dub on Mar 21, 2023 20:56:03 GMT -5
IceSha's following in Breeze's footsteps. (National ranking for 2022 came in the mail today) I blame Dar.
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 21, 2023 22:14:09 GMT -5
japan wins, 3-2
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