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1st April 2017, 12:35 PM #631
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fletty (in famous Yorkshire accent!)a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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1st April 2017, 06:26 PM #632Bushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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2nd April 2017, 06:38 AM #637
That reminds me of a little story I heard on the radio (a long time ago. The lord mayor of Leeds was being interviewed. When asked what it was like to live in Yorkshire he said,
"Ten percent of the people in the UK live in Yorkshire: The other ninety percent woud like to!" (Very broad accent)
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12th April 2017, 06:52 PM #638
Last year I was approached by a lovely lady who was worried that the above leadlight panel had been "under her bad for many years" and was " getting floppy"!
She asked me to make a frame to support and protect the panel rather than display it. However, after I framed it with some of Mapleman's stunning camphor laurel, the panel has been on display and hasn't returned to the bedroom.
A few weeks ago she asked if there was a way that it could be hung and viewed from both sides. I still have a stash of Chinese 'hanging brackets' and so I said yes. She delivered it last week and today I fitted a cutting blade on to an angle grinder, plunged into the top of the frame and fixed the brackets from the back with phosphor bronze Robertson screws that merge beautifully with the camphor laurel...
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..... and leave the front of the frame unmarked. I took a few quick pics and luckily I did because she couldn't wait to see it, turned up, and has taken it home to hang in a window where it will be a feature from both sides!
Unfortunately the 'hanging brackets' are only polished on one side but that didn't worry her at all.
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The Chinese brackets matched the frame beautifully but I wish I'd had another few days to admire it through MY window.
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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12th April 2017, 09:49 PM #639
Got love the colour, grain and figure of camphor laurel Alan... I just finished a replacement coffee table top 600x400....BEAUTIFUL... Cheers, Peter
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13th April 2017, 04:53 PM #640
All right gents, here's the photos of the new camphor laurel replacement coffee table top...
The timber was supplied by Greg Ward....
Thank you to Tony for the homemade "wipe on poly" recipe...4 coats...
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The first two shots are "phoney photos", before coating and after 2 coats then the others with the top installed with my Sony A6000.... Cheers, Peter
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13th April 2017, 05:31 PM #641
That is beeeeautiful Crowie!
I bet there's not a blocked sinus anywhere in the house
H and number 1 daughter are currently hiking around Turkey. H is a great photographer but has constantly complained about the weight of her Nikon DSLR even though I reduced the lens load by getting a single 'lightweight' 24 to 300 lens. That dilemma was solved by the Nikon being fatally dropped earlier this year and H planning on travelling with a Nikon B500 which has a screen but not a viewfinder. That screen is almost impossible to use in bright light so I boldly went when no man should go and bought her a Sony A6000 without consulting
After a bit of token displeasure, she used the camera for a few days before flying out and declared it a great success. She has a single (I think) 18 - 200 lens (24-300 in full frame parlance) and loves it.
Im about to 'fatally drop' my Nikon DSLR and get an A6000 for me ...... or maybe a 7000
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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13th April 2017, 05:51 PM #642
Alan, I bought the Sony A6000 with a 18-200 Tamron Lens for the trip to England and Gymnaestrada in Finland; mostly very happy though a 300 lens would be nice and a little more understanding of the manual controls.... Lens selection is reduced with the "mirror-less lens" though for about $500 I could buy an adapter for the Cannon or Nikon mounts, but the kit I have is great point and shoot camera...
The Sony A7000 has good reviews but then I suspect you've already researched them...
Cheers, Peter
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13th April 2017, 06:06 PM #643
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14th April 2017, 06:10 AM #644
I've had an NEX6, the for runner to the A6000, for 4-1/2 years now.
Very happy camper.
even with the 16-50 lens attached it still fits in a coat pocket -- but maybe my coats just have big pockets?
I also have the 55-210 zoom, but except when shooting sport, I mostly stay with the 16-50.
Have never missed having the higher megapixel count of teh NEX7 / A7000.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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14th April 2017, 09:26 AM #645
Actually, my secret reason for lusting after an A6000/A7000 is that, right at the end of the film era, I bought the most beautiful camera I have owned, a ContaxG1. I never really got use out of it because, like so many, I got swept up in the digital revolution. The G1 came with 3 glorious Carl Zeiss fixed focal length lenses, (I think) 28, 45 and 90mm. In the darkroom (remember them?), I could blindly pick up a roll of film, put it under the enlarger and immediately tell if it used a Zeiss lens or any other inferior lens. I remember several rolls of B&W taken in the Queen Victoria Building. A microscope showed that images from all of the lenses were crystal sharp from edge to edge. WELL, there are adaptors available for the A6000/7000 that will allow me to use those Carl Zeiss lenses again AND have autofocus! BRILLIANT
Happy Easter everyone, flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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