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med6753:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2018, 09:42:09 am ---You can freeze an analogue scope. Turn the intensity up, stare at it for 10 seconds then shut your eyes  :-DD

As for Arduino, don’t get me started on that :)

Damn I am a grumpy old man :Dwhe

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--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 21, 2018, 09:56:48 am ---Personally I quite grumpy old men, especially when they are nearly always right and nice with it, hell I'm one of them myself. :-DD

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Grumpy old man here too. I turn 65 next month so this past Friday I went to local Social Security Office and signed up for Medicare. A perk for getting grumpy and old. Going to continue to work for another year and then retire completely and collect SSI benefits.

TEA content....I have a Siglent SDS 1052DL DSO here and it's neat but I usually find myself going for the analog scope to troubleshoot something. 

Grumpy old man mantra......"Old age and treachery will beat youth and speed every time".  >:D 

GerryBags:
I sold a working digital 'scope to buy a broken analog one. I didn't like the digi at all (useful as it would have been in diagnosing the broken one) and... erm... like a challenge... or used to, the shine has worn off this particular challenge a bit. i may not be as old as you guys, but being in pain all the time can make you super-double-grumpy. Plus I probably look older than all of you put together!  :D

GreyWoolfe:

--- Quote from: med6753 on May 21, 2018, 12:44:34 pm ---Grumpy old man mantra......"Old age and treachery will beat youth and speed every time".  >:D

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I thought it was youth and enthusiasm. ;D  That's what I have always said.  Grumpy old man myself in my early 60's but I am trying to be a kinder, gentler GreyWoolfe.  However, it could all just be  :bullshit:

mnementh:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 21, 2018, 07:06:36 am ---Specmaster - that's also the beauty of digital cameras. 1200 shots on a 32Gb SD card isn't a big deal, but that would have taken 34 rolls of 35mm film, say £15 each for film & processing, that's over £500! I used to assist a sports photographer back in the filmy days and you had to be fairly well assured that you'd be able to sell your shots before whacking away on the motor-drive.

Oh, and I'd say you're definitely getting good at it. Those pics are very professional looking. if you did a FB page devoted to your aerial photography I know a load of scale modellers who would go a bundle for them. Look up David Brown Photography, he does pretty nicely attending airshows and selling the shots on his website. I can't stand my brother, but he does run a high quality digital printing service in Potters Bar, just North of the M25. He'd definitely be amenable to printing and posting out your orders. Might be worth thinking about, as the actual web-space shouldn't be too pricey and you wouldn't need to stock anything.

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I agree with this entire statement. I spent a lot of time scouring the 'net for pics of a certain variant of Piper Cub for my own stick-build; pics of this quality are definitely worth paying for.  :clap: You should for sure set up on one of the bigger photo sites and monetize; it would definitely help pay for both these expensive addictions.  :-+

If you post your "I gotta share shots" here with a [SPACE] instead of a [CR] between images so they show up side x side, and thumb them to ~180 pxl wide, you could put all of those pics up in the space of an average post. I realize this sucks for presentation, but it would tame the debate over "too much vertical scrolling".

I never had a problem using the [PG DN] button; but some folks are so used to their scrollwheel they have to stop and think to use something else. I can sortof understand the gripe; as I get older, I find anything that makes me stop and think a distraction. I suppose the difference is whether you welcome that kind of distraction or get annoyed by it.  :o


Thanks again for sharing,


mnem
 
*Digital since 1998*

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: mnementh on May 21, 2018, 02:40:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 21, 2018, 07:06:36 am ---Specmaster - that's also the beauty of digital cameras. 1200 shots on a 32Gb SD card isn't a big deal, but that would have taken 34 rolls of 35mm film, say £15 each for film & processing, that's over £500! I used to assist a sports photographer back in the filmy days and you had to be fairly well assured that you'd be able to sell your shots before whacking away on the motor-drive.

Oh, and I'd say you're definitely getting good at it. Those pics are very professional looking. if you did a FB page devoted to your aerial photography I know a load of scale modellers who would go a bundle for them. Look up David Brown Photography, he does pretty nicely attending airshows and selling the shots on his website. I can't stand my brother, but he does run a high quality digital printing service in Potters Bar, just North of the M25. He'd definitely be amenable to printing and posting out your orders. Might be worth thinking about, as the actual web-space shouldn't be too pricey and you wouldn't need to stock anything.

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I agree with this entire statement. I spent a lot of time scouring the 'net for pics of a certain variant of Piper Cub for my own stick-build; pics of this quality are definitely worth paying for.  :clap: You should for sure set up on one of the bigger photo sites and monetize; it would definitely help pay for both these expensive addictions.  :-+

If you post your "I gotta share shots" here with a [SPACE] instead of a [CR] between images so they show up side x side, and thumb them to ~180 pxl wide, you could put all of those pics up in the space of an average post. I realize this sucks for presentation, but it would tame the debate over "too much vertical scrolling".

I never had a problem using the [PG DN] button; but some folks are so used to their scrollwheel they have to stop and think to use something else. I can sortof understand the gripe; as I get older, I find anything that makes me stop and think a distraction. I suppose the difference is whether you welcome that kind of distraction or get annoyed by it.  :o


Thanks again for sharing,


mnem
 
*Digital since 1998*

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Even without photos and quotes attached, there is still a lot of scrolling to be to reach the bottom of the page, so what's new?

I will however remember your tip and try it, may even put a few photos in that format and give it a test run [emoji23]

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

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