"Pulled the trigger" and "cold, dead hands"? Sounds like my kind of people!
And for those who wonder why I'm so busy posting today, I'm sitting on the back
deck with my laptop, drinking an MGD about every 30 minutes, or less,
binoculars at the ready, overseeing the work being done down by the creek after
a nearly week-long "strike." I still ain't pleased, and we've had a couple of
instances of raised voices and colorful language, but there's been no gunfire.
Not yet, anyway. Of course, the day ain't over. Since I may soon be too drunk
to stagger down the hill, I'm sitting here with my AR15 and a 30-round clip,
just in case.
Just kidding, folks! It's probably illegal to kill an illegal, and anyway,
there ain't no bounty. At least not yet. But I think the rednecks are in
season.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Garth Wood <getwood1@xxxxxxxxx>
> Well, yesterday I pulled the trigger on another photo-related
> purchase (a small one this time): I went out and bought one of the
> legendary ExpoDiscs for the A1. And then I used it on my camera for
> the first time to set a totally custom white balance. To sum up:
>
> This thing *ROCKS*.
>
> Why did I wait so long? Why, Lord? WHY? With five seconds' worth
> of effort, I get a white balance that's completely "attuned" to the
> ambient light mix, and the results were nothing short of shockingly,
> jaw-droppingly fabulous -- instead of dicking around for five minutes
> per photo in Photoshop to try and get something that looked
> approximately like what I thought I saw, I got images that were damn
> close to perfect. No diddlin' curves. No fartin' around with
> levels. Hell, I may just marry this thing.
>
> Custom white balances can be done in other ways, and the AutoWB on my
> A1 (and, I presume, on the various E-thingies) is pretty good, but
> now I'll give up my ExpoDisc when someone pries it from my cold, dead hands.
>
> I'm just sayin'.
>
>
> Garth
>
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