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I just wish that sans serif fonts could easily differentiate between Al (as in "just call me Al") and AI (as in artificial insemination/intelligence). I think if my name was Alastair and I had a computer business, I'd call it 'Al AI'. No-one would ever know which was round it should be.
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They would. It's one of those unwritten rules. Disco Alf is a guy called Alf who runs a Disco. Alf Disco sounds like Disco is his surname. Mind you, in Ivor the Engine, the driver was called Jones the Steam and the station master was Dai Station. 🤪
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Also Dave Coaches, it’s a Welsh thing from Welsh language grammar.
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🤦🏻♂️ Of course!
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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i've never really liked digital cameras, had umpteen, they have no soul, these days just use the mobile, still have an m6 and an f2as, both with a bunch of lenses, outrageously heavy and untouched for years
slowly having a clearout/tidy, what to do
also still have my old nikon 4000ed film scanner with all the frills, not touched it since the noughties, only a firewire 400 interface, um
20+ year old scanner, firewire cable into firewire 400<>800 adaptor into firewire<>thunderbolt adaptor into thunderbolt<>usb adaptor
20+ year old vuescan licence, downloaded latest vuescan, 'strewth, licence still valid
plug in, power on, insert 1970s negative strip
huzzah! it works!
goes to show, not all digital stuff is tat that becomes unusable in a few years
decided to get a processing tank etc. and start doing b&w again, used to be a 'required skill', easy peasy
now i can wander the streets with cameras heavy enough to kill, and consider composition and lighting before going 'click'
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I also refer the honorable gentleman to my username.
OK, so it's not a brand name, but generally if it's a brand, the name will come first, and the business second (e.g. 'Dell Computing'), but if a moniker for the person, then the name second (e.d. 'Computing Del').
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Will look forward to some photos-with-soul on the photo thread. You might even tempt @masjer back with your vintage lenses...
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Glad you managed to get a Firewire device active again. No such luck for my MiniDV camcorder from 2004. I bought a FW 400 pcie card but my win11 pc wouldn't recognise the drivers or the card despite much google-fu. Put it in my win10 machine and it saw the card and I found the drivers. It wouldn't recognise the camcorder with the firewire cable. Got a composite a/v cable to usb adapter from ebay which works but quality is a bit suss. Waiting for an S-video connection now. Also got new FW cables to try in old win10 machine.
Phew. It's a lot off faff but worth it to see the kids on Christmas day when they were small.
Re scanning on Nikon Coolscan. They take freaking ages to preview ans scan. I've got the coolscan IV. I now use a light box, negative holder and a nikon 60mm micro lens and each scan is about 1/10 second and huge resolution on a d810.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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yes it's slow, but i've got the two autofeeders for film and mounted slides, so i can just leave it to chug away once loaded
fortunately i use a mac, the fw native support always worked ok without having to add drivers, i'm just impressed it still worked through all the adaptors
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny1
