Knuckledragger
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This is the coolest thing I've seen all day.
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Spent four hours helping my friend Steve fix his $@#& 1994 Ford Ranger. Who ever said that working on vehicles is some kind of manly bonding activity needs to be hit upside the head with a plug rench.
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When it gets cold around here, I like to listen to music made 500 miles inside the arctic circle.
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As a technical question, I've seen users who are listed as "Banned" and "Not Allowed to Post." Is there some difference there?
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I think this might be a repost, but I for one can stand to look at it again.
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$3,155.00.
Wasn't that more than the last pair of Grado NOS ones brought? -
3 grand with 7 minutes left.
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Maybe it changed into that ugly purple because it's now fully burned in.
That could be a new feature. Like an audiophool pregnancy test.
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$1,625 with 4:20 left. Someone page HighLife.
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From right to left: asleep, asleep, asleep, listening to Motorhead, asleep.
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Last year I spent over $200 on slide film, developing, and scanning. I was really underwhelemed with the results. This made me more than a little embittered, so I stopped shooting film after I got back the last rolls. Late last month, my stepfather's oldest son gave me his late 70s Ektragraphic slide projector and screen. Earlier this evening, I set them up and loaded the slides from the first two rolls of Velvia 50 I shot into the carousel and looked at them. The projector has some real issues, its focus knob doesn't work, so I have to manually move the lens with my hand. This makes perfect focus impossible, but it still enabled me to get a very good idea what the slides look like.
My discoveries were almost universally positive. There are some underexposed shots, and a few that are poorly composed or have other flaws. By and large, I really liked what I saw. When one shoots transparency (slide) film, there is no negative. The slides are the film that went through the camera. What I saw on the screen is exactly what I shot. Velvia 50's colors are beautiful to the point of being surreal.
What is now painfully obvious to me is that the lab I have been using (Iris Photo in Northampton, MA) suck giant festering moose balls when it comes to scanning. They have displayed astounding incompetence in other areas, but apparently they save their best work for film scanning. This is really grating because I pay them $20 a roll to have the film scanned, on top of a $20 developing fee and $12 for the fucking roll of film.
In one sense, I'm fortunate that they're around, as there is no other place remotely near me that still develops slide film. Slide film development is a science and not an art. As long as the machine doing the work is calibrated correctly, properly exposed slides come out looking OK. What is now painfully clear to me is that slide processing is all that the Iris staff are good for. I need to buy a slide scanner, and soon. Unfortunately, the good ones are not cheap. Furthermore, proper film scanning is a process nearly as fussy as the actual exposure. The prospect doesn't bother me too much. I put considerable effort into shooting slide film last year, and was rewarded with crummy results. I think I have found a way to correct that.
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Wasn't that more than the last pair of Grado NOS ones brought?
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