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Which Board? => Main Forum => : Phil Bebbington March 22, 2012, 10:15:40 PM
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Hasselblad 501CM and Fuji NCN400
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fp-1 and some expired 664.
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Harman Titan, Venice. FP4+, Prescysol. (my first photo post here: hope you like it)
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Not shot or processed anything this week. Instead I was scanning a pile of old negs and came across this one shot in Beijing (Fuji 400H).
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qjzy1frDq-8/T2pVCjCZ01I/AAAAAAAAAko/mwpN5gWmAg0/s1600/beijing_hutong-old-man-at-takeaway.jpg)
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Haven't got out with a camera for a couple of weeks, so have been catching up with some scanning.
Looking forward to wasting some film at Southwold on Saturday.
Happy weekend to all.
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lovely start as usual...
vidwatts I certainly do like your first post here, keep them coming.
Mine are Mum, Dad and Gran. shot at the dinner table on Mothers day. I am trying to make mysef take more 'portraits'. Polaroid 195 and expired 664 from 2004.
I just bought some 12"x16" paper for the darkroom, looking forward to trying it, although I need to get it right as it is pricey!
happy weekend all.
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Harman Titan, Venice. FP4+, Prescysol. (my first photo post here: hope you like it)
The Venice shot is stunning...
Fujica Drive Half-Frame first test roll.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicablog1.jpg)
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicablog4.jpg)
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicablog11.jpg)
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicablog7.jpg)
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here's a couple roids for the weekend
(http://steveniphoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_0001.jpg?w=500&h=)
(http://steveniphoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_0005.jpg?w=500&h=)
excuse the dust and fingerprints and such.. i'm such a slob :-\
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I took the new/old Seneca 8x10 I've been tinkering with for the past many weeks for a trial run. Some bizarre and interesting results, but this one came out well enough. I was playing with the tilt and it fascinated me the way I could get distant trees and foreground grass sharp at the same time. Just some crappy Arista EDU film, as it was a first test. Shot this with a Rodenstock 240mm.
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Cool one Steven!
That Sun photo looks like an eclipse.
Very cool!
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Happy Weekend, everyone! Lovely work.
Nothing to show (yet?), but the VE+ News is that I have a Great Wall DF-2 on the way. Fingers crossed for a Saturday arrival.
Harman Titan, Venice. FP4+, Prescysol. (my first photo post here: hope you like it)
Very much!!! Welcome!
Steven, is that the Bay Bridge in the background? Nice. San Francisco with a camera is a very large slice of heaven. If I'm ever independently wealthy, that's exactly where you'll find me.
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Cool one Steven!
That Sun photo looks like an eclipse.
Very cool!
thank you! i have no clue why it came out like that haha happy accident :)
Steven, is that the Bay Bridge in the background? Nice. San Francisco with a camera is a very large slice of heaven. If I'm ever independently wealthy, that's exactly where you'll find me.
yes it is the bay bridge!
once you hit it big and come to SF come find me 8)
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Just a lone tree..................
Nikon F2 and 50mm lens. Ilford FP4 developed in ID11
Have a great weekend.
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thank you! i have no clue why it came out like that haha happy accident :)
Cool effect Steven - assuming instant film reacts like negative film, this looks like solarisation caused by extreme over exposure. Ansel Adams' photo 'The Black Sun' is a good example of this (also taken in California - I guess you have more sun than most of us!)
Love Lawrie's landscape too - great simplicity. Vidwatts - fantastic pinhole.
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Lawrie, Phil great stuff as usual! Sapata I like the first one. You're fast with the Fujica Drive! I'm still shooting my first roll.
Urban
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Harman Titan, Venice. FP4+, Prescysol. (my first photo post here: hope you like it)
Love it! This must be one of the most photographed spots in Venice! I took one from there in 2005..
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A couple this week..
One from my trip to Paris end of last year with Britt & Diane.. this was taken just before we went into the Diane Arbus exhibition.. the other is a homemade lens on an old Dacora Digna body which has since broken I think..
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Oh Suzi..I remember this so well..beautiful!!
and Vidwatts...beautiful pinhole..Welcome!!
mine from a roll I just developed after 8 months..
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I really like moominsean and thil's shots! Great work!
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A couple from a long trip I took 21 (!) years ago, and only got around to scanning lately. All shot with my trusty Fujica st605n on Kodak slide film.
A family-run hotel in Singapore where I was staying
(http://ludoo.smugmug.com/Other/Odds-and-Ends/Scan-110114-0004sp/1156736872_aYCue-M.jpg) (http://ludoo.smugmug.com/Other/Odds-and-Ends/13985603_7nSjVn#!i=1156736872&k=aYCue&lb=1&s=A)
A view of Bali
(http://ludoo.smugmug.com/Other/Odds-and-Ends/1183185903scan-110115-0007/1183223046_tomrt-M.jpg) (http://ludoo.smugmug.com/Other/Odds-and-Ends/13985603_7nSjVn#!i=1183223046&k=tomrt&lb=1&s=A)
Yours truly, 21 years younger, on the train to Singapore (notice the weird seat arrangement)
(http://ludoo.smugmug.com/People/Me-Myself-and-I/Scan-110115-0001latest/1176437944_uLCF3-M.jpg) (http://ludoo.smugmug.com/People/Me-Myself-and-I/14041525_PCbFZf#!i=1176437944&k=uLCF3&lb=1&s=A)
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thank you! i have no clue why it came out like that haha happy accident :)
Cool effect Steven - assuming instant film reacts like negative film, this looks like solarisation caused by extreme over exposure. Ansel Adams' photo 'The Black Sun' is a good example of this (also taken in California - I guess you have more sun than most of us!)
wow i didnt know that thanks for explaining ;)
and yep nothing beats California sun!
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Harman Titan, Venice. FP4+, Prescysol. (my first photo post here: hope you like it)
A wonderful photo!
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Another shot from the Diane-Suzi-Britt trip to Paris. Holga and T-Max and Caffenol
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And a Swedish shot, from Kungälv. Still Holga and caffenol
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Some gorgeous shots on here already. Kudos to Lawrie, Nick and Britt + all the others. However, my favourite so far is the utterly dreamy trees and chairs shot by Suzi. That is just wonderful.
Mine are grab shots in London (again) taken on XP2 Super. The "flowers" were taken with M4-P / 50mm lens and the others are medium format....
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Hasselblad 501CM - Fuji 160C in Ajo, Arizona
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Sapata's 2nd is up a ma alley...
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Scary
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LD--that photo of the tube passageway is driving me crazy. I've walked that passage a thousand times: Piccadilly Line? Northern? What station is it????
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Lawrie, Phil great stuff as usual! Sapata I like the first one. You're fast with the Fujica Drive! I'm still shooting my first roll.
Urban
Thanks Urban...
I just couldn't wait to finish! After all it was my very first half frame film ;)
by the way... how noisy is that motor drive ?? :D
Scary
Thanks Miller... the scary pola is great as well and my God... how big is that sign? :P
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Hasselblad 501CM - Fuji 160C in Ajo, Arizona
I love the soft tones on this picture Phill... and the combination of pink and blue is just perfect!
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LD--that photo of the tube passageway is driving me crazy. I've walked that passage a thousand times: Piccadilly Line? Northern? What station is it????
Hi Terry.
In all honesty, I can't remember 100% although I'm pretty certain it was on the Northern Line and is probably Warren Street or Goodge Street.
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Vid, that Venice shot works nicely with the crisp distance contrasting the subtle foreground movement.
Thil, that makes me hungry - a little classic, really.
But then so does thinking about tamales.
The tube line shot is tempting - you could shoot every corner underground !!
Rolls still unfinished, so I thought I'd share what I believe were my best shots ...
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/Sandeha/europe87/8704_kod_03_copy.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/Sandeha/europe87/8704_kod_18_copy.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/Sandeha/europe87/koln_galleryo.jpg)
... from 1987. A gallery in Koln, Germany.
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more Fujica Drive...
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicaweb1.jpg)
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac277/sapata_photos/fujicaweb2.jpg)
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Got a Receskey TLLR self-build kit for my birthday - got something from it that I like at last (Rollei Retro 400s semi-stand developed in LC29)
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6230/6851939164_05c474ec60.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6851939164/)
Willowglen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6851939164/#) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6058/6851927856_cc343548f4.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6851927856/)
Willowglen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6851927856/#) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6033/6998025599_e7e7fb6af0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6998025599/)
Willowglen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6998025599/#) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
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Nice Mr Windy. Has my yellow one arrived yet??
Here's a crop from a 6x6 taken with a Kiev60 with dodgy shutter that lets the light through when you wind it on. With foma400 in Prescysol EF.
The Crofter's dad paints
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Nice Mr Windy. Has my yellow one arrived yet??
No, not yet I'm afraid. Shouldn't be too far away, dispatched 2 Friday's ago. I believe the pigeon is resting in Ullapool and replenishing it's food stores before the final push across the Minch ;)
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Cool start Phil, time capsule. Like Lawrie's tree and Miller's bridge too. Just Dev'd two rolls of SFX in RO9, a 120 from a BHF with a flipped lens and taped on red filter and a 35 mm from a Bootfair Zenit 12EX with various filters. Roll drying at the mo, think I got a result but the 120's crinkled down one edge ?
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LD--that photo of the tube passageway is driving me crazy. I've walked that passage a thousand times: Piccadilly Line? Northern? What station is it????
I was just thinking the same thing!!
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Sandeha, that middle one is a smash!
I just love that photo! :) It's one of those shots I wish I'd made.
Super!
:)
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This weekend I have been at the dessert, close to Khartoum, it has been just great!! ;D Little Alma is still a city baby but little by little she is coping well with dusty khartoum, no other option... sorry little Alma :'(
Polaroid 195 and fp3000b rated at 6400 ISO.
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Zenit 12XP SFX in RO9 holding a crap IR filter over an old 20mm Jena I got in Cuba.
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Flipped BHF with expired SFX and an old filter taped on.
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Crown Graphic with flipped lens on paper...
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calbisu, your photos are my favs so far this weekend, love them!
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A walk on the island edge. Sunshine and warmth all round so Eve and I took off to Reef beach then up onto the hills behind descending then to the road behind. Lovely. One person seen all day here.
Took a Minolta with Polypan-f.
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So Diane sent me a pinhole camera and I've been playing with it today. I like this one, but the odd thing is that a guy walked through the shot and left no impression. It was a ten-second exposure, and he's not even a ghost. This is fun stuff to play with!
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Vidwatts: nice pinhole.
shooting with some thrift store plastic through a wide-angle video lens.
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Terry...I believe Andrea told me that with longer exposure you have to kinda stay within the 1 or 2 second range to get someone to show up..I did this last year and it worked out best for me with the exposure about that amount of time..otherwise the person gets through before an impression can be made..I guess it would depend how long it took them to walk through...and the amount of time you have determined you need based on your film etc..I also used a ND filter to help the process.What film did you use?....it is always hard for me to get my brain completely wrapped around this concept..but I really like your image..Good goin'!
Andrea, or anyone else, please feel free to correct me if I am misunderstanding this!!
Did you ever happen to see the book that Andrea did with long exposure?...it it is a fabulous book and inspires me everytime I look though it!!
Here is a link to Andreas beautiful book... http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/527952 (http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/527952)
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Diane, You are so very kind.
Did I say 1-2sec? Is that the right length of time?? I probably did say that but I think it's wrong. I think it's time as a relationship to the whole length of exposure. So, a 30 secs exposure would require the 'walker' to walk very slowly - a sort of meditative walk. Or something like that anyway :-)
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I exposed the first couple of frames at 4 seconds, but that was on a bright day. yesterday was cloudy so I doubled the exposure time (more or less). I guess this guy was in a hurry! What I love about this is having to re-frame your sense of time. I usually shoot 35 or 120 and my default exposure setting is a 125th, at say f/16. I've been shooting more large format, and getting used to a 15th at f/45, so shooting pinhole and counting the time in my head is the logical next step in that progression.
This one I shot earlier shows (ever so slightly) a light smear in the distance that was a car driving through.
These were shot on Arista EDU 100 (AKA Fomapan)
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oh, I really like this, Terry!
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Andrea..I could be wrong! :) I do go back and read what you wrote to me..I am so fascinated by that book..and I realize I am now talking pinhole versus long exposure.. but they are sort of the same/but different :) Your notes have been invaluable!!
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i'm a bit late this weekend...
(http://www.dynamo.de/filmwasters/fw_fp3000_06.jpg)
Polaroid 600 se, fuji fp-3000, negative scan
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Yaich! I am gonna join efforts with Dynamo. Negative fp3000b. Which now seems more under control, still it seems to me a little forgiving film. This was the second weekend in a row that I had not been able to go out to the streets and shoot (yes, babies are demanding.. :'( ) so I grabbed the polaroid the 3000b and went out at night. I had in mind this young street vendor who sells cigarrettes. I shot at 1/30 and 3.8f, I would say I overexposed one step so I slightly modified exposure of the goop.
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Not much happening here, looking forward to seeing what the FW trip out this WE yeilds though.
Couple more Red Filters on 1999 SFX, Zenit 12XP and BHF flipped.
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MIles, second and third just look terrific ;D
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Carlos, I love the intimacy of your shot.
Miles, love all three, but, two and three and just great.
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Thanks Chums
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Miles... #2 for me....
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Yaich! I am gonna join efforts with Dynamo. Negative fp3000b. Which now seems more under control, still it seems to me a little forgiving film. This was the second weekend in a row that I had not been able to go out to the streets and shoot (yes, babies are demanding.. :'( ) so I grabbed the polaroid the 3000b and went out at night. I had in mind this young street vendor who sells cigarrettes. I shot at 1/30 and 3.8f, I would say I overexposed one step so I slightly modified exposure of the goop.
I really like this.
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I wanted to get more of a widescreen feel for my next series and eventually remembered the triptychs of David Hilliard, and I like a lot of his stuff, the slightly off kilter perspectives, the images that don't quite align. Somehow I think seamlessness is an ideal and seams and breaks and slight disjointedness is more true. Anyway, a couple tests I shot last week.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7216/6873305572_81cdb43fca_z.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7241/6873305756_da9b32aa2b_z.jpg)
EDIT: No pigeons, but another.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6216/7022821209_8e205e693f_z.jpg)
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I like those, hookstrapped...
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Peter, I like these very much.
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Peter, I like these very much.
Agree 8)
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Cool, thanks guys.
I was thinking about magazines with a two-page photo spread where things didn't quite line up, probably in Life or Sports Illustrated since we were such a Henry Luce family, and it would piss me off. But that's life, no? Seamlessness is an ideal, not real. Maybe those separate images, each with their own perspective, is how we view the world before our brain stitches it all together, where we focus on one thing, then the other.
I was watching Breathless last week, the Godard film, and there's this sequence when they're in the car talking and it's jump cut after jump cut -- which goes contrary to creating the illusion of seamless continuity. Sort of the anti-dissolve. This is sort of like a jump cut, not in time but in focus (what we're looking at) and perspective.
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Peter - really nice images and I like the slight disconnect between the pairs.
This got me thinking. I don't imagine we see everything we see seamlessly but I wonder what the eye / brain refresh rate is in real terms. Nikon's new 1v digicam can do video at 60 frames per second (which sounds impressive) but we are, presumably, processing the data we see at an even higher rate to make the process at least "appear" to be seamless....?
Interesting concept.
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Well, our eyes can see still images as seemless motion starting at 24 images/second. Increasing the refresh rate only makes things appear smoother. The reason for cameras that go up to 60fps is mostly to be able to do slow motion video. Film fast-playback slow is the classic trick.
Many animals have a better optical system than us. Pigeons come to mind as they see everything that goes on around them in slow motion.
As for the data processing speed of the brain, this is hard to calculate. Thing is we have an analog computer in our head. We can't benchmark it easily. Also, being analog and adaptable, it can do functions very fast yet be totally poor when it comes to some things that need precision. Unlike a digital computer which is very precise but awkwardly slow when it comes things that need adaptation.
Here's something somewhat interesting from MIT http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24030/ (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24030/)
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Pigeons come to mind as they see everything that goes on around them in slow motion.
Francois, I know this is a common factoid, but it is so ridiculous that I can't let it lie = How can anyone know how fast a pigeon can see? :)
crazyness!
(not a dig at you, but a dig at the things 'they' tell us)
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They can if you have pigeon's called Neo and Morpheus ;D
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Pigeons come to mind as they see everything that goes on around them in slow motion.
Francois, I know this is a common factoid, but it is so ridiculous that I can't let it lie = How can anyone know how fast a pigeon can see? :)
crazyness!
(not a dig at you, but a dig at the things 'they' tell us)
they are probably just so stupid that there is a delay in processing what they see. if they actually saw in slow motion,, they would continually be falling behind until eventually they would be seeing last week!
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Free the Pigeons !
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Well, for a long time, we had a dove at home. And let me tell you, as dumb as these birds can be, they have highly tuned senses...
She didn't see anything on the tv, that pretty much means that her eyes were running faster than the TV's refresh rate...
Thing is the pigeon family has a very short optical nerve, this means that their tiny brain gets the visual cues faster than we do...
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Amazing. Pigeons (aka "rats with wings") have better and more responsive eyesight than us humans. I read somewhere, a few years ago, that someone had worked out that the average pigeon walks further in its lifetime than it flies and that, as a result, they are most likely to be the next species of bird that loses their ability to fly.
That sounds like b*llocks to me but I do hope it's true as that would give me a better than evens chance of kicking the living daylights out of the dirty little bugger that keeps crapping on my car before it has sufficient velocity to get airborne (other than as a result of a "collision" with my right boot).
I'm usually very tolerant of all animals, creepy-crawlies and birds but, alongside wasps and traffic wardens, pigeons are another species that I think the earth would benefit from becoming extinct.
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She didn't see anything on the tv
how do you know that? Since when would a bird respond to anything on a tv screen???
One of my dogs never shows any interest in the tv yet Woody goes mental everytime time he sees a dog on any show - does this mean they both have different 'refresh rates'?
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I don't know... but I know animals prefer LCD screens to CRT... don't know why.
All I know is that our bird didn't care a single bit when we filmed her and played the tape back but went pretty much ballistic when we showed her a mirror :)
Who knows... this could also be a whole bunch of bull as far as I know...
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My wife told me dogs like a but of HD, but she's always telling me stuff ;D
I decided to flip the lens on the Ansco that Diane sent me as part of "Share the Love", very easy, all just tabs to bend. Thought it might make a change from the BHF and being 6x9 and real 120 ... Anyway I loaded it with 2006 Jessop's efke R200 and dev'd in 100:1 RO9 for 20 mins.
All in all a bit disappointing, but might try again and easy to flip back.
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Amazing. Pigeons (aka "rats with wings") have better and more responsive eyesight than us humans. I read somewhere, a few years ago, that someone had worked out that the average pigeon walks further in its lifetime than it flies and that, as a result, they are most likely to be the next species of bird that loses their ability to fly.
Given the chance they could go the way of the dodo. After all, the pigeon belongs to the same bird family. ;D
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hey Miles - I've got one like that!
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You cannie whack and black dog at a window !