From: Robert Coe on
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:10:15 -0800, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> wrote:
:
: "Chris Malcolm" <cam(a)holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
: news:7rtp36Fc3rU3(a)mid.individual.net...
: > In rec.photo.digital tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
: >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:55:53 -0500, Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> wrote:
: >
: >>>This year I have to go to Acadia National Park. My wife and I have now
: >>>been
: >>>married for 43 years, and she's been reminding me that she's never been
: >>>there
: >>>for as long as I can remember. I'll expect a mandate for rugged seascapes
: >>>sometime this summer.
: >>>
: >> My wife and I will celebrate 46 years of marriage later this year. I
: >> am trying to convince her that the forty-sixth anniversary is "glass".
: >
: > Why do you need to convince her? Why not just buy her some really good
: > glass? :-)
: >
: > --
: > Chris Malcolm
:
: Yes.....I recommend a set of Mikasa glassware......Or Steuban, if you've got
: the bucks......

Does either of them make a good 10-20mm f/2.8?

Bob
From: Robert Coe on
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:40:17 +0000, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:42 +0000, Peter Chant
: <peteRE(a)MpeteOzilla.Vco.ukE> wrote:
: >tony cooper wrote:
: >> "Cow Barn" is a subject that I shot last summer, but processed in
: >> color. I went back yesterday and re-shot it for the mandate. I'm on
: >> a black & white kick, so I went for that in this shot and deliberately
: >> over-sharpened for effect. No filters (in camera or in software) were
: >> used...just the Unsharp Mask set to 240 and a lot of Contrast.
: >
: >OK, I'm being picky, and this is usenet, the home of picky ( :-) ), surely
: >unsharp mask is a filter? Or is it an effect?
:
:
: Have you ever thought of buying a book on photography?

You don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about, do you, Bruce?