No it's true... I seen it on TV!
Think it was on CNN or something.







Ohh wait maybe it was CN!

 

Well, I don't believe much I see on TV. I only believe stuff I read on the Internet. Wait...I just read your piloting rabbit theroy on the Internet. Okay, I believe it now.

 

Dear c0ckac0la-

(I am not even going to ask about your screen name).

I did not say "I told you so."

I did not imply "I told you so."

I am not stupid enough to do either.

As for how things at home are, and the implication that maybe they might not be so good as all my time has been spent in front of the screen . . .

Actually, things are good. Thanks for asking, I appreciate the concern. Actually, and this might be one of the reasons things are good, she hasn't been here since the day this thread was started. So, not having time for the (as you put it) old ball and chain, hasn't been an issue.

Kobi-

 

Dear Net Wurker-

Wow. How amazing is it that you come up with a hypothetical situation that that very closely resembles what I will be doing tomorrow?!?!?!?!

First of all, I'll be in a 757 (WORST. PLANE. EVER.) but there was no way for you to know that.

With regard to you question, could it work? Well, I suppose in some parallel universe - or a cartoon universe - it could. Sometimes I'm an optimistic person and find myself thinking anything's possible . . . I guess this must be one of those times.

As you stated in your post, you know the laws of physics pretty much rules this out . . . and I'm sure you understand that an object within an object traveling at a certain speed maintains the speed of the object it's in. That's why, for instance, when you're in an airplane that is traveling at 700 miles an hour, and you're standing in the isle, and you jump up, that you don't go slamming into the back of the plane at 700MPH. So, even if you jumped off the aircraft 7 feet from the ground, you still have forward motion at the rate of speed the craft was traveling at, thereby assuring that you will be doing an excellent imitation of of a human bullet being shot INTO the ground. (We're not even going to address all those other issues of the size of the plane and the destructive wake it would leave that would consume you assuming you could just hop off a crashing jet.

You also are aware (I hope) that CARTOON PHYSICS is completely different than the physics of the universe you and I inhabit. Many people fail to take this into consideration and usually are unpleasantly surprised when they purchase and try to use an ACME™ Rocket Sled™ or ACME™ Rocket Powered Sneakers™. Just something to keep in mind.

Kobi-

 

ACME™ products are the best products ever!

The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

Think I'm going to buy some of this from them ACME INVISIBLE PAINT

This looks like fun too! ACME JET MOTOR

This one is just cool! ACME ULTIMATUM DISPATCHER

So much fun so little time!

 

We would like to take a moment away from answering questions to play with our new camera.

As promised, I took some test shots with this new little pocket camera that arrived late yesterday.

I have not read the instruction manual yet so I have no idea how to actually use it properly. I'm told it's pretty good for such a thin little thing. best thing about it, it fits easily in my pocket (first thing I tested).

So, with the camera in auto mode I decided to see what would come out so I took it with me to the gym and snaped some shots while driving:

First, the most important stop on my drive:



I have no idea what's up with the wheels on that H2 . . . or that colour. One thing's for sure . . . it's pretty easy to find if you're in a crowded parking lot.

Starbucks . . . yummmmmm

Next, it's the requisite ocean shot:




and here be the pier:



but . . . the big picture and the question on everyone's mind is . . . .

 

You did shrink those right?
If not take it back because that's not 6 megapixels!

Those are actually 1.4 effective megapixels.

 

. . . . continued from previous post . . .

...the big question is:



DO YOU IPEX?

This may be the most important question that I have been asked so far . . . and it is somewhat interesting that it was delivered to me by a bus . . . pulled right up besdie me and just a bit past me.

I don't take such signs (no pun intended) lightly . . .


Also, one of the first test pix was one indoors . . .

You all might be interested to see where Kobi answers your questions:

well, it happens right here:




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PSS-Mag

Yes . . .

The original resolution is 2848 x 2136 @ 72dpi. The first 4 pix I cropped to match 16x9, the last is full aspect ratio.
Unfortunately, any pix placed in the F150 online gallery displays as 640x480 max . . . so it took the 2848 x 1200 and displays it as 640x270 or something close to that . . .

 

WOW!

That is unussual.

Your effective megapixels are just barely more than the advertised Megapixels. Which is outstanding because usually it's just barely over 1/2 a million pixels less than the advertised resolution and they will round it up to the nearest mega pixel.

You did very good!

Is this one of those Credit Card sized cameras?

 

Ahhhh... a new question to ask the Kob-ster. What pocket cam did you get? I got my Minolta x60 a month or so ago and I love it.

 

PSS-Mag-

It's advertised as being a 6.3 Megapixel camera. I just said 6 to round it off.

Not credit card sized, but not big like my previous one either . . . see next post.

Kobi-

 

D -


Got the Fuji F10. Got really good reviews and you can go ISO as high as 1600.

Some reviews:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/F10/F10A.HTM

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/fu...ew/index.shtml

and fuji's site:
http://www.ad2.fujifilmrpt.com/

I'll be reading the manual and playing with it on the plane since there will be nothing else to do.

Kobi-

 

That's still not bad. You are at 6,083,328 effective pixels so it's only 216,672 shy of the advertised. Your still with in .2 mega pixels, thats pretty darn close! Fugi just scored some points with me. If you wouldn't care to send me the full size version of one of those pics in an e-mail. I'm going to get a new small digi soon. Currently my smallest one is a Kodak Easy Share 6230, but it's only little more than 2.0 Effective MP. It fits in the glove box or console alright and even in the side pockets on my cargo pants. But I would like something I could drop in the inside pocket of a suit jacket, a sport jacket, a winter coat, front pocket of my slacks or something. If my shirt doesn't have a pocket which most of mine do not because I don't like them on my shirts. But I'd like to drop the cam in and not look like I'm stealing food for later from the buffet or somewhere or something.

 

Uh-oh... PSS just put me over to page 13

 

Dear D-
I told you eventually you'd end up with . . . while the rest of us would be ahead of you.

K-