• Members 412 posts
    Oct. 24, 2024, 11:24 p.m.

    As I continue struggling to understand filmic concepts as they may or may not relate to digital photography, I find stuff like this extremely irrititating:

    Stupid Kodak wrote: KODAK VISION3 500T Color Negative Film 5219 / 7219
    <snip>
    Base
    KODAK VISION3 500T Color Negative Films 5219 and 7219
    have an acetate safety base with rem-jet backing

    "safety base" ...

    "rem-jet backing" ...

    ... for God's sake, give me a break !!!

    Grump.

  • Members 392 posts
    Oct. 25, 2024, 11:02 a.m.

    Hi,

    Heh. Be happy for Safety Base. Means it isn't the original nitrate base. Film used to be about as stable as nitro glycerine and exploded about as well. Danged stuff was so likely to blow up that people would be banned from public transportation when carrying it.

    And, if you don't like photographic terminology, stay far away from electronics. And anything automotive. And, well,.everything else of a technical nature. Stick to rocks. Actually,.geology has a bunch of specialized terminology as well.

    And never go near the world of medicine. They have everything else beat six ways from Sunday when it comes to terminology....

    I don't see how you can win here.

    Stan

  • Members 2308 posts
    Oct. 25, 2024, 9:16 p.m.

    bring back honesty and black and white comments, the world would be a better place. comments like "your images suck" instead of all the nanny comments, maybe that's why my threads get deleted,🤔 i prefer fact than fiction 😉😁

  • Oct. 26, 2024, 10:31 a.m.

    Sorry, but there's honesty and downright nastiness. The comment "your images suck" is not an honest comment - it's your opinion and expressed in a nasty way. In this site, a comment like that will get moved out.

    Alan

  • Members 3952 posts
    Oct. 26, 2024, 12:09 p.m.

    That's pretty much what I said before it got moved to the Dumpster.

  • Oct. 26, 2024, 12:34 p.m.

    Agreed, except you added a personal insult at the end. Which is why it got moved.

    Alan

  • Members 2308 posts
    Oct. 27, 2024, 8:42 p.m.

    as i said, its a growing problem with society, just look at all the disruptive and bad mannered children at our schools now, the problem is the parenting and the minority with the biggest voice that think they actually now how to deal with the problem when they are the problem. had a good discussion with my extremely well educated daughter thats a teacher, she has been comparing school systems from high-end private, religious, state/public and now Steiner schools (which she said were the best mannered that actually asked questions and wanted to learn). she studied to be a biology/science teacher not a baby sitter teaching manners. our photography club has gone the same way, it has gone to pieces because of nanny opinions on what is a good and bad image, the decline of work and the leaving of good photographers is proof of a floored system. another good radio discussion last night about youth crime, a minority group of parents in power are to blame for putting the wrong discipline measures into force, our latest state election just got rid of the party which has done nothing to curve my thoughts and hopefully the next will be strong enough to stick with what people want eg: black and white 😊

  • Members 2308 posts
    Oct. 27, 2024, 8:48 p.m.

    my thread didn't even get a reply so i couldn't have have even added a personal insult. 😁 i was looking forward to a harty debate on brand loyalty over fact and personal bias.

  • Members 392 posts
    Oct. 27, 2024, 9:23 p.m.

    Ha! I nominate this for the Best Auto Correct Which Is Not Correct award!

    Best Manured rather than Best Mannered. ;)

    Stan

  • Members 2308 posts
    Oct. 27, 2024, 9:30 p.m.

    😅 AI is going to take over the world 😯 the corrections are as good as the latest Ps AI cloning tool, im thinking of going back to 2019 Ps.

    i must be getting grumpy in my old age, i just seen a couple going for their morning walk in perfectly matching black and white cloths down to the finest detail, is that vanity at its best 🤔