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Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
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Hollywood got started by pirating Edison's inventions, and later received congressional OK to use other copyright holder's work - at a fee set by Congress, not the market. Lawrence Lessig writing in Wired. Duh... Disney ripped off dozens of authors who worked before copyright law existed... Comments 8:54:20 PM 
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Fast web site: my Comcast subscription gives me a 26MB site on a Comcast server with a lot more bandwidth than gulker.com's 144K XO IDSL link. So I put the 2MB hi-res version of the pic below here. I used the 400 ASA setting on the Leica: you can see lots of noise at 1:1... about what you saw in a TRi-X negative circa 1970 blown up to 16x20... Comments 8:20:12 PM
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 Times Square on Tuesday evening. FTP was behaving oddly from the command line of my Windows machine (may have been an issue with the hotel's broadband connection) so I had to wait to come home to post.
Picture was taken with my brand new birthday present (thank you, dear!) a Leica Digilux 2, which appears to be an amazing digital camera. The lens, a 7 to 22.5mm f/2.0-2.4 Summicron (equivalent to 28-90mm on 35mm gear) is both fast and very sharp. The 5 megapixel (2560 x 1920) images can be blown way up and still hold their quality. I worked with film Leicas when I was still a newspaper shooter and loved them. This camera is a very good cross of analog and digital features, IMHO... |
Updated 4/16/04; 1:13:18 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 1:13:18 PM
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