Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[david3103]

My dads cafe in the 70's had the old style pinball machines. There were no flippers and had numbered holes which the ball could go down in doing so completing bingo type cards. There were usually 6 bingo cards on the upright facia and completing lines would gain the player credits for free play.

My dad used to pay out cash for credits. These machines were very popular amongst the foreign students, mainly from the middle east, who would play pretty much all day long. Many times I can remember dad staying well into the early hours feeding the needs of these young degens.

I'm on phone at the moment and can't post any pics.

Where was this Bobalike? I spent hours in The Oasis Cafe in Northampton on the Bally machines. They had a room full of them and a couple of pinball tables.

[david3103]

That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

[bobAlike]

My dads cafe in the 70's had the old style pinball machines. There were no flippers and had numbered holes which the ball could go down in doing so completing bingo type cards. There were usually 6 bingo cards on the upright facia and completing lines would gain the player credits for free play.

My dad used to pay out cash for credits. These machines were very popular amongst the foreign students, mainly from the middle east, who would play pretty much all day long. Many times I can remember dad staying well into the early hours feeding the needs of these young degens.

I'm on phone at the moment and can't post any pics.

Where was this Bobalike? I spent hours in The Oasis Cafe in Northampton on the Bally machines. They had a room full of them and a couple of pinball tables.

He had cafes in Dudley, Wolves and a couple of other places in the 70's and early 80's but nothing in Northampton. Sounds like a similar setup though.

[kinboshi]

Just watched a segment on telly about Danielle Brown. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-15758438

What a story.

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That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

Will answer this later Dave, I'm grinding at the moment and I can't multi-task. (I can't even fart and chew gum at the same time).

Well, I can manage to post, but nothing worthwhile, just drivel. *Open goal*

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Just watched a segment on telly about Danielle Brown. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-15758438

What a story.

Bookmarked.

[kinboshi]

Just watched a segment on telly about Danielle Brown. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-15758438

What a story.

Bookmarked.

Once you've read it, the phrase 'bad beat' in poker seems so trivial.

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I don't get it. Did she put herself in the frame for this? (Silly mare).


Miss Pryce told the Sunday Times that Mr Huhne had asked “someone” to take his penalty points following a speeding offence in March 2003. It later transpired that the someone was allegedly Miss Pryce.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9058105/D-Day-for-Chris-Huhne-on-speeding-points.html

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What about 8 track cassetes? Remember those?

Click to see full-size image.

You had to bolt the player anywhere it would fit under the dashboard, there was no 'dedicated' place for it. So many good memories.






Had 'The Amazing Darts' on 8 track.

My daughter used to bounce around the cab of the lorry to this one. (No car-seats or seatbelts back then).

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That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

Not entirely happy Dave. I had to crop it too much for a start.

1/100s
f/4.0
ISO 80
Manual focus
12 x optical zoom. (Which is apparently about 432mm in grown up camera terms?)

[david3103]

That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

Not entirely happy Dave. I had to crop it too much for a start.

1/100s
f/4.0
ISO 80
Manual focus
12 x optical zoom. (Which is apparently about 432mm in grown up camera terms?)

1/100s is  a bit slow for the subject, I reckon you could push the ISO up to 160 or even 200 here then you'd get 1/200 or even 1/250 given the same lighting and there should only be a marginal drop in the clarity of the image.

I can't picture how you manually focus a compact? Are you still viewing your intended shot on the lcd on the back?

12 x zoom hand held is pretty tricky and there's no horrible camera shake going on there, did you have the image stabilisation on? If you can get away without it then you have more scope to push the ISO higher and still keep the same quality of image.

I'm assuming that the picture was taken at the highest level of detail possible on your camera?

[RED-DOG]

That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

Not entirely happy Dave. I had to crop it too much for a start.

1/100s
f/4.0
ISO 80
Manual focus
12 x optical zoom. (Which is apparently about 432mm in grown up camera terms?)

1/100s is  a bit slow for the subject, I reckon you could push the ISO up to 160 or even 200 here then you'd get 1/200 or even 1/250 given the same lighting and there should only be a marginal drop in the clarity of the image.

I can't picture how you manually focus a compact? Are you still viewing your intended shot on the lcd on the back?

12 x zoom hand held is pretty tricky and there's no horrible camera shake going on there, did you have the image stabilisation on? If you can get away without it then you have more scope to push the ISO higher and still keep the same quality of image.

I'm assuming that the picture was taken at the highest level of detail possible on your camera?

Have to go out now Dave so will answer properly later, probably ask some questions.

Camera is quite old now.


http://cameras.about.com/od/digitalcamerareviews/a/pandmcf27.htm

[tikay]

That picture is pretty good Tom. How happy are you with it?

Which setting was that on?

Not entirely happy Dave. I had to crop it too much for a start.

1/100s
f/4.0
ISO 80
Manual focus
12 x optical zoom. (Which is apparently about 432mm in grown up camera terms?)

1/100s is  a bit slow for the subject, I reckon you could push the ISO up to 160 or even 200 here then you'd get 1/200 or even 1/250 given the same lighting and there should only be a marginal drop in the clarity of the image.

I can't picture how you manually focus a compact? Are you still viewing your intended shot on the lcd on the back?

12 x zoom hand held is pretty tricky and there's no horrible camera shake going on there, did you have the image stabilisation on? If you can get away without it then you have more scope to push the ISO higher and still keep the same quality of image.

I'm assuming that the picture was taken at the highest level of detail possible on your camera?

I take precisely the same view, though I'd say 180 max for the ISO, & then we'd get 1/225.

[Woodsey]

Your gonna need a big lens if your serious about taking good bird pics, that is the only way to get good clear, crisp pics of them. If your always having to crop you are going to get digital noise (stops the pic looking crisp) unless you have a very good camera. To give you an example, this pic was taken with a 300mm lens on full zoom and I was only sat about 12-15 feet away.

You can have all the skill in the world in this game, but at amateur level there is a direct correlation between money spent on gear and quality of pics unfortunately.

Click to see full-size image.

[Redsgirl]

Talking of flying things - these are brilliant, but at the same time a little sinister:

These are seriously cool.
This may be a stupid question but who is flying these things?  Will it be individual people or are the controlled by a computer program?