Comments on: New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/ An eclectic mix of technology, news comment, and personal notes. Sat, 17 May 2008 10:06:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: Simon http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-395 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:30:30 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-395 Good luck! Six months will go by quickly but it's very exciting! -Simon Good luck!

Six months will go by quickly but it’s very exciting!

-Simon

]]> Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: carrster http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-394 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:26:36 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-394 Slowly!! Ack. I should get a few more things done and I would feel a bit calmer about the whole thing...although I'm not freaking out yet (I have 6 months, after all) but I'm sure that'll come. ha ha. :D Slowly!! Ack. I should get a few more things done and I would feel a bit calmer about the whole thing…although I’m not freaking out yet (I have 6 months, after all) but I’m sure that’ll come. ha ha. :D

]]> Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: Simon http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-392 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:25:51 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-392 Carrster! Good to see you back here. I'll be organising my photos and maybe I'll post a special photo page at some point soon. How are your wedding plans going? -Fruey Carrster!

Good to see you back here.

I’ll be organising my photos and maybe I’ll post a special photo page at some point soon. How are your wedding plans going?

-Fruey

]]> Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: carrster http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-390 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:01:08 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-390 Cool! Looking forward to your new pics. :-) Cool! Looking forward to your new pics. :-)

]]> Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: Simon http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-388 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:44:08 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-388 Aidan, Always a pleasure reading your comments. I too regret somewhat the passing of the physical development of photos. I only did some basic contact prints in art (no negative, just placing more or less transparent objects on top of a piece of photographic paper and exposing) but watching them develop was like watching a magic show. Digital has a number of advantages which allow me to experiment with a much lower budget and in less time. Many photo shops have shut down though, as a tour of many a high street will show. Here in France those that are still going propose instant development, photos for ID cards, digital camera and optical equipment like binoculars, and good advice. "Automatic for the People" is a fine album. Still gets a listen in my car, no longer on cassette tape but converted to mp3 ripped from a CD I picked up second hand somewhere. I prefer early REM though, their first or second album (not quite sure) Murmur, with opening track that got airplay at the time "Radio Free Europe". -Fruey Aidan,

Always a pleasure reading your comments.

I too regret somewhat the passing of the physical development of photos. I only did some basic contact prints in art (no negative, just placing more or less transparent objects on top of a piece of photographic paper and exposing) but watching them develop was like watching a magic show.

Digital has a number of advantages which allow me to experiment with a much lower budget and in less time. Many photo shops have shut down though, as a tour of many a high street will show. Here in France those that are still going propose instant development, photos for ID cards, digital camera and optical equipment like binoculars, and good advice.

“Automatic for the People” is a fine album. Still gets a listen in my car, no longer on cassette tape but converted to mp3 ripped from a CD I picked up second hand somewhere. I prefer early REM though, their first or second album (not quite sure) Murmur, with opening track that got airplay at the time “Radio Free Europe”.

-Fruey

]]> Comment on New Fujifilm Finepix E900 Zoom by: Aidan http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-386 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:27:40 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2006/03/04/new-fujifilm-finepix-e900-zoom/#comment-386 Congratulations, sounds - and looks, on the slightest of evidence, but still... - like an admirable piece of equipment. Still feel a touch of sadness, though, for the sudden loss of a certain photographic technique - no, not the composition of the shot itself, which can yet be superb, but the more ephemeral and I suppose unimportant scent of the fix, bubble of the sumberged sheet, crick of the newly-burgeoning negatives sliding around their coil and hopefully sneaking away from being too scratched upon delivery (though there would always seem to be some hideous thick scratch across my films, no matter how careful I tried, oh how I tried, to be...) I did a photography GCSE, about 12 years ago, when the climax of the course was a day locked in the darkroom, a batch of three enjoying our opportunity to bring along tapes (REM's Automatic For The People seemed to be undisputed play-of-the-day, I vaguely recall...) but just about smearing out a few sort-of-arty, this'll-do prints. Only for my favourite photographic shop in Finchley to turn into a ghost-train-reminiscent miseryville within just two, three years... Would be interested to find out how many photographic shops are still going, and how their development figures compare to just a few years back, but suspect so many photos taken these days stick around on computers instead of anywhere else... Convenient, yes indeed. But also a little bitsy sad. Nice one on your latest blog entry, though. Hope he finds what he seems to be devotedly looking for...! Congratulations, sounds - and looks, on the slightest of evidence, but still… - like an admirable piece of equipment.
Still feel a touch of sadness, though, for the sudden loss of a certain photographic technique - no, not the composition of the shot itself, which can yet be superb, but the more ephemeral and I suppose unimportant scent of the fix, bubble of the sumberged sheet, crick of the newly-burgeoning negatives sliding around their coil and hopefully sneaking away from being too scratched upon delivery (though there would always seem to be some hideous thick scratch across my films, no matter how careful I tried, oh how I tried, to be…)
I did a photography GCSE, about 12 years ago, when the climax of the course was a day locked in the darkroom, a batch of three enjoying our opportunity to bring along tapes (REM’s Automatic For The People seemed to be undisputed play-of-the-day, I vaguely recall…) but just about smearing out a few sort-of-arty, this’ll-do prints.
Only for my favourite photographic shop in Finchley to turn into a ghost-train-reminiscent miseryville within just two, three years… Would be interested to find out how many photographic shops are still going, and how their development figures compare to just a few years back, but suspect so many photos taken these days stick around on computers instead of anywhere else…
Convenient, yes indeed.
But also a little bitsy sad.
Nice one on your latest blog entry, though. Hope he finds what he seems to be devotedly looking for…!

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