Joe Pineapples

Exactly my point - you're both a pair of f***wits...

No - you misread the OP, and you misread my post as well. You are attacking imaginary straw men created by you not reading posts carefully - a typical example of why discussions on internet forums...

Bert Hardy was a lovely guy, possibly my favourite photographer, and his personality shines through his work.  I would be very happy if he wanted to take photographs of my children.  Likewise with...

Are you honestly saying that you have no idea why someone continuing to photograph a child after the parents have requested them to stop might provoke a strong reaction? I think the answer is "the...

Watch this movie to get in the mood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday  Joe

Some challenges seem to be somewhat over-specified with great lists of rules about composition, subject, what you must include, what you can't include, what percentage of the frame can be occupied...

No AA filter, so pictures can show aliasing artifacts such as moiré and over-sharpened appearance to edges.  Red filter reduces sampling -> increases likelihood of visible aliasing artifacts... Joe

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If you want to worry about radiation, worry about UV from the sun - it killed around 2000 people last year in my country. AFAIK no one died from bananas or radioactive lenses... Joe

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When we are dealing with signals, replacement of analogue components by digital processing (e.g. designing a linear power amplifier vs. compensation via digital techniques and using modulation &...

Yes - I didn't look through the numbers but my guess was a Leica I or II... Joe

Matching the lens to the sensor is much more important in digital cameras than with film cameras, especially wide-angle lenses. The sensor on the M9 has offset micro-lenses to match it to the Leica...

It is an older model than the M series - have a look here: http://www.cameraquest.com/ltmnum.htm  Joe

Hey - he replied to my post! Maybe he's hittin' on me! Joe

Don't be such a hemispherist, Jenna - Summer's just about to start! :)  We all went down the beach yesterday for a swim.  The water's still pretty cold; but probably not by Formby standards! I'm a...

Interesting example of society's attitude towards people with mental illness...

Like people are always saying - you see some strange stuff on the net - boom, boom! :) Geddit? Net / 'net - the subtle interplay of abbreviations? It's paronomasia: using similar-sounding words for...

Antenna engineers have been using spherical lenses since the 1960s at least...