John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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jacco vermeulen said:
Hands-on or hands-off ?
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Whitey Bulger keeps on going.

A male corrections officer making 3 a.m. rounds at the US Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Fla., reported that Bulger, while alone, with the lights on, was violating a regulation that prohibits any sexual activity by inmates. Prison authorities soon put him in solitary confinement for 30 days, revoked his commissary and e-mail privileges for 120 days, and confiscated his personal property for 30 days.

An indignant Bulger insisted he had done nothing wrong. According to a prison disciplinary report, Bulger said he was only administering medicated powder to his genitals for an irritation he found too embarrassing to report to the prison medical department, not — and there’s no polite way to phrase this — sexually gratifying himself.
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Book is cheap for 320 pages hardback. Photography books I like cost the same for 1/8th the pages. I have a feeling that the TAS book doesn't make a penny given the amount of free contributions.

I'm not saying I ordered it, just that it's not expensive; you/I/we/us/whatever might be poor however.
 
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Destroyer OS. said:
Photography books I like cost the same for 1/8th the pages.
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Interestingly I had a book on Ansel Adams and I really didn't see what the fuss was about. However seeing the original prints in an exhibition you can then 'get' the skill and the art behind those images.

I've tried staring at magazine pictures of high-end amplifiers hoping to make my system sound better, but no luck. 😛
 
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billshurv said:
Interestingly I had a book on Ansel Adams and I really didn't see what the fuss was about. However seeing the original prints in an exhibition you can then 'get' the skill and the art behind those images.

I've tried staring at magazine pictures of high-end amplifiers hoping to make my system sound better, but no luck. 😛
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The problem with Ansel Adams is that buying a book means the print inside of it is barely bigger than the negative. A 35mm print on an 8x10 is 7-8x magnification, but Ansel Adams 8x10in film is only typically done at 2-4x. What really lets you know how much talent he has... try doing large format some day and you'll understand! 35mm and medium format is hard enough to get remotely consistent pictures for composed shots like Adams would do.


The book that I'm wanting right now.

However I did get this not long ago, which came with three CD's. The rock one isn't the best perhaps, but it was literally meant for driving. The sounds and elegance (classical) CD's are actually very pleasurable. Perhaps TAS should have included a few test mixes?
 
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Destroyer OS. said:
The problem with Ansel Adams is that buying a book means the print inside of it is barely bigger than the negative. A 35mm print on an 8x10 is 7-8x magnification, but Ansel Adams 8x10in film is only typically done at 2-4x. What really lets you know how much talent he has... try doing large format some day and you'll understand! 35mm and medium format is hard enough to get remotely consistent pictures for composed shots like Adams would do.
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Exactly my point. Unless you are standing in front of one of the big prints he did you don't get the resolution and dynamic range to understand why he had to develop his own processing methods to get the results he wanted.
The book that I'm wanting right now.
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Nice. But makes you want to give up photography as you know you'll never even get close...
 
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