[AGL] Mac Attack

[michele mason]

Bill, thanks for all the info. I've had the idea floating around my 
brain for some time, but just wasn't sure how to best approach good 
photos. Perhaps I now have enough info.  mm

On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:49 PM, bakhirun bakhirun wrote:


>

>

> On 3/6/07, Bill Irwin <billi at aloha.net> wrote:If you only have limited 

> funds to spend on photography the best investment is the camera and 

> accessories rather that the computer.  Any computer that can run 

> Photoshop will do just fine,  memory is the most important thing - get 

> 2-4 gigs at least.  If resolution is important, and it generally is if 

> you are going to make prints, then the most economical way to go is an 

> automatic film camera such as the Cannon Elan7 ( generally less than 

> $300) and a film scanner that can scan 4000 DPI, this will get you 

> very near to film grain.  A comparable digital camera will cost you 

> over $25,000.  Computers don't make photographs, photographers do,  

> you can make a damn good photo with no computer at all.  If you like 

> hype get the Mac, either one will do a good job.

>>  

>> If we are going to do reviews of home appliances shouldn't we expand 

>> a bit and cover other appliances?  My toaster is better than your 

>> toaster and my toast tastes better than your toast.  My vacuum 

>> cleaner really sucks also.

>> Ewie

>

> Sir, I will have you know the expression is "Nothing sucks like an 

> Electrolux".

>

> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

>

> (funny they stopped using that slogan - those Scandinavians are a riot)

>

>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>> From: bakhirun bakhirun

>>>

>>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s

>>>

>>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:33 PM

>>> Subject: [AGL] Mac Attack

>>>

>>> I am trying to remember the quote from Spanish. It goes something 

>>> like "...lo que sabe el burro de matematika..." (but it is probably 

>>> dirtier).

>>>

>>> I too have a rather long history of rasslin' with personal 

>>> computers. Artist friends in Montreal first baptized me with a 

>>> creaky Mac 512 in 1986. I well remember the mental agonies required, 

>>> at the age of 45, in having to learn to follow every tiny rule and 

>>> neat keystroke. Then I moved in with an old pal in New York and used 

>>> her MultiMate, on DOS. When I came to Indonesia and started working 

>>> as a copywriter I had to use WP5.1 because everybody else was. 

>>> Bye-bye Maccy at that point.

>>>

>>> But I am basically a visual expressionist and the lure of the wild 

>>> has always hovered at the (event) horizon. I took a look at the iMac 

>>> 24. Jeez, it looks like a home theatre. And all the reviews, even 

>>> from the non-Mac crowd, are replete with wows.

>>>

>>> So I'm going for it. As we used to say at the Campus Guild, "Faint 

>>> heart never screwed the cook."

>>>

>>> Thankee

>>>

>>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

>>>

>>> On 3/6/07, Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote: You know about as much 

>>> about computers as I do about horses...

>>>> G

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>>> From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

>>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net >

>>>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:45 PM

>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> That's okay. But, not flexibility, or bang for the buck—know where 

>>>> to

>>>> buy and from whom. Software/hardware, maybe, maybe just a little

>>>> inferior.  One may get used to a corncob, but I prefer 

>>>> Charmin.  Yes, a

>>>> macsnob, but I don't mind.  mm

>>>>

>>>> On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Gerry wrote:

>>>>

>>>> > <<Macs are better in every sense!<<

>>>> >

>>>> > Except cost, bang for the buck, flexibility, general availability 

>>>> of a

>>>> > huge

>>>> > selection of software and hardware, etc.

>>>> >

>>>> > The one and only area that Macs established an early following and

>>>> > have been

>>>> > able to keep it is graphic arts...oh yeah, and cuteness...

>>>> >

>>>> > Not intending to start a "my computer is better than yours war" 

>>>> but

>>>> > resisting such an extreme statement as yours.

>>>> >

>>>> > On the DOS platform since 1985,

>>>> > G

>>>> >

>>>> >

>>>> >

>>>> > ----- Original Message -----

>>>> > From: "michele mason" < yaya.m at earthlink.net>

>>>> > To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>>>> > <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:38 AM

>>>> > Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)

>>>> >

>>>> >

>>>> >> Macs are better in every sense! That's my story....and you know.

>>>> >> Sincerely, I am a Mac-person and wouldn't have anything else. 

>>>> Its just

>>>> >> a matter of which one you need. That ?, I would direct to Dave

>>>> >> Moriaty.

>>>> >>

>>>> >> Best regards,  Michele

>>>> >>

>>>> >> On Feb 15, 2007, at 5:49 AM, blacky at cbn.net.id wrote:

>>>> >>

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> I have decided to plunk down two thousand clams for a 24-inch 

>>>> iMac,

>>>> >>> primarily to use for photo work and video editing.

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> (a) Hooray for you, Byron. Go for it.

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> (b) Yer bonkers, mate.

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> Considering that all the furniture in my house is waterlogged, 

>>>> and

>>>> >>> that

>>>> >>> this sum represents a prodigious amount of dough for me, my 

>>>> esteemed

>>>> >>> colleagues and most valued peers are staring at me like I have 

>>>> lost

>>>> >>> my

>>>> >>> fucking mind.

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> Wish me luck folks. Anyhow the way I look at it since I spend 

>>>> 25% of

>>>> >>> my

>>>> >>> waking hours staring at a stupid screen it may as well be a

>>>> >>> whizz-bang

>>>> >>> one.

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> Any, er, comments? Feedback? Warnings?

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

>>>> >>>

>>>> >>

>>>> >>

>>>> >

>>>>

>>>>

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