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Subject: Re: [OM] New to TOPE Galleries - thread-jacking inside
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:05:08 +0100
Oh, I had forgotten the box - read TV overseas ;-)
Forgotten because I don't have one.

Enjoy the couch Jez :-)

Amitiés
Philippe


Le 12 janv. 13 à 13:29, Jez Cunningham a écrit :

> Je ne suis pas d'accord!
>
> I think for me it is more about convenience - I'm usually reading this
> list on my iPad on the couch, in bed, or on the bog!
> To view a photo on d requires me to go upstairs to my office.
> To view a photo on c requires me to fetch a heavy laptop.
> I don't have an a.
> So the result is that I prefer b above all. Excluding e which is least
> convenient - but clearly the best!
>
> Exceptionally I might go upstairs to the desktop and its 23" full HD
> screen. Especially if I'm interested in the results of a moosification
> which don't work on the iPad. So d is my second choice.
>
> Jez, on the couch (this time)
>
> On 12/01/2013, philippe.amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> To cut a long story short,
>>
>> if given the choice would you rather VIEW photographs on
>>
>> a) an I-phone,
>> b) an I-pad or a tablet of any brand,
>> c) a laptop screen,
>> d) a decent 19" and above monitor,
>> e) None of the above I prefer prints, and large ones into the  
>> bargain.
>>
>> My take is (e)dcba but you knew that I presume.
>>
>> Amitiés
>> Philippe
>>
>> Le 12 janv. 13 à 01:38, Moose a écrit :
>>
>>> On 1/10/2013 7:35 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>>> OTT I don't think it a good idea to take tablets, or phones ...  
>>>>> into
>>>>> account as the site is about photography, for which tablets are
>>>>> hardly
>>>>> a tool,
>>>
>>> Perhaps not for you or me, Philippe. There are people young of  
>>> heart/
>>> mind, and mostly of body, who are doing some good
>>> work on pods/tablets/phones.
>>>
>>> My younger son, the graphic artist, has done commercial projects on
>>> iPad/iPhone. Work with vector software, not raster,
>>> and it is full resolution at any size. The coat of arms on a pub/
>>> restaurant came out of that tiny device.
>>>
>>> The screen on the new iPad is really nice. I think good work on
>>> photos could be done with it. Not my style of work, but
>>> that isn't stopping other folks.
>>>
>>>>> and phone the worst thing to think of when you want to view a
>>>>> photo. Of course YMMV.
>>>
>>> As indeed does my mileage vary. Viewing properly sized images on the
>>> iPad3 is quite satisfying. What really surprised me
>>> was looking at my photoblog images on an iPhone5. Great? No. But way
>>> better than I had expected. The overall look of the
>>> image is really good, and a little finger gesturing allows zooming
>>> in and panning.
>>>
>>> Again, not my preferred mode, but I see all sorts of young people
>>> viewing things this way. Different brain paradigm?
>>>
>>>> I've been watching the trends on this very closely as well as  
>>>> looking
>>>> at the visitor logs on my websites as to OS and browser. I  
>>>> require no
>>>> further convincing. Phone/Tablet computing isn't just the future,
>>>> it's
>>>> the now. The speed of this shift is amazing.
>>>
>>> Yeah, one of those things where you look up, and find the world has
>>> changed around you.
>>>
>>>> So much so that I'm under
>>>> some pretty heavy pressure to change Zone-10 over
>>>
>>> I was certainly happy to find that my choice what you consider retro
>>> soft tech works quite nicely on small touch devices.
>>>
>>>> to a new CMS that
>>>> supports it better. It also means that I had to avoid stuff that
>>>> leans
>>>> on java, flash or a myriad of other old standards of content
>>>> enhancement.
>>>
>>> Is it HTML5 now?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible
>> to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>>
>>
>>
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One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible  
to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.



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