not rich, nor an idiot. i live in brooklyn and drive my car or ride my motorcycle into manhattan at least once a week. i park on the street and manage not to melt down or get tickets.
"... Ah thank you... I was recently feeling like maybe our society wasn't worth saving. You have cured me of that foolish notion."
fixed that for you. (raises glass in salute)
other than pay $3million, i'm on the same page with you. always been my favorite muscle car ever.
got a full rig with a Shoot35 FF, but this just looks awesome for a lighter/faster rig. put my money down, waiting for march. esp excited about the one rail mounting system for a run&gun event rig.
nope, 6'4" and wear large gloves. just never liked the smart cover - it doesn't work for me on a day to day basis. it would attract dust and such when it was folded back causing those lines. it must not have liked the interior of my bag, cuz it got dingy looking very quickly. maybe you have a nicer bag than i do.
so...when i would hold the ipad overhanded (thumb/fingers at top with ipad pointing down towards the ground), i would find that the unprotected back wouldn't really give me much grip and the smart cover would sometimes slip enough to cause the cover to come completely off...luckily i managed to catch it on my foot before it hit the ground on one occasion (hence my cradling comment). the incase cover has 2 ridges on the back that work perfectly for that manner of carrying.
i carry my ipad with me pretty much anytime i leave the house and gets a lot of usage if i don't bring my laptop to the studio, esp if i am showing clients proofs from a shoot.
when it comes to cases & bags - to each their own. i'm glad y'all like the smart cover and it works for you. i used it and thought it was an ill-designed piece of crap. i think the Incase Magazine cover is way better designed.
glad you like it. i had the grey one - it looked dingy after the first day, left three parallel streaks on my screen that i would have to wipe off everyt ime i wanted to use my ipad, was about 1/4" too wide when folded under the ipad (as opposed to flush), was kinda random on if it would decide to stay propped up.
add in no back protection/grip, so you have to cradle the ipad instead of carrying it in your hand and the fairly common occurrence of the magnet hinge just sliding off.
just badly designed. my Incase Magazine cover is waay better for my day to day use. it has a couple ridges on the back so you can also grip it like a normal person and is flush on the far edge when the cover is folded back. much better design/engineering for daily ipad usage.
well, cuz the Apple ipad2 smart cover is one of the biggest, worst designed, badly executed pieces of crap ever marketed by a major corporation. threw mine out a day after i got it.
ah, glad to see that y'all in manhattan have the same shitty service with AT&T as we do here in Brooklyn. makes me wish i smoked so i would have something to do while standing outside my apartment trying to call a client about a gig.
i'm in the same boat as Dave - professional event shooter...you can have my DSLR when you pry it from my cold cold dead hands.
well, as an owner/shooter of a RB67, C-220 TLR, AE-1, 4 polaroid cameras of various sorts plus a couple 6x9 folding land cameras - I use a 1dmk4 with a 300/2.8 IS in the tents for NYC fashion week...i still can't imagine hanging a 300mm lens on this form factor. just seems like defeating the whole purpose of this camera.
my interests must be very boring - i'm excited about both this body and the X100
sorry...give me a minute to wrap my head around the visual of hanging a 300mm lens off the front of that camera.
okokok...i'm done laughing now. whew, thanks - i needed that.
i thought it was very slow and clunky as a photo management system. I love it for prep though. (don't get me started on Aperture - what a bloated POS). i'm a 100k images per year event shooter and live/die/swear by Photo Mechanic. nothing out right now comes close to it's flexibility and sheer speed - good enough for Sports Illustrated to use during the Olympics, good enough for me.
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(raises hand) yep. quite liked it. (i'm a sucker for anything with the Rock and Ford GT's). i like my popcorn movies loud, dumb and fun.
best comment on youtube:
"The answer to any question about this car is "Australia.""
"The answer to any question about this car is "Australia.""
as a cablevision subscribing ipad owner, i just weep at all these awesome streaming apps that i know will NEVER be approved. hell, we didn't get Food Network & Speed until 3 years ago and cablevision picks a fight with some awesome network on the regular.
almost makes you want to weep.
i think "change the plot" is being waay nice...from the trailer, it looks like a COMPLETELY different story than the broadway musical. who the hell are all these people (and a f'ing MONKEY!!?)?!!?
i live in bushwick and park on the street daily. looks like a normal tuesday to me.
err...let's be honest here. other than i think "rollin' in the deep" is a catchy song, i'm not an adele fan. if i show up at her show, it's because i was assigned to go as "work." if i have to pay to go to work, then it's the same as you going to your place of work and having to pay to sit in your cubicle. she is still directly affecting me and my expenses.
i prefer to donate my money and time where i want, not where i am told as part of my gig. this is why i left my day job in corporate america several years ago.
now, if it was a "suggested donation" when i walked in and i had the cash in the money clip, of course i would donate because it's the nice thing to do.
i prefer to donate my money and time where i want, not where i am told as part of my gig. this is why i left my day job in corporate america several years ago.
now, if it was a "suggested donation" when i walked in and i had the cash in the money clip, of course i would donate because it's the nice thing to do.
hi! i'm a working freelance photographer who shoots live shows from time to time as assignments from my various clients/editors. I regularly donate my time and money to charity, but if i showed up at an Adele show expecting to shoot my 3 songs and out (standard SOP for shooting live bands) and was told i had to pay $20 for my ticket? i'm pretty sure that i would get back in my car and go home. I'm not there as a fan, i'm there to work.
I have enough costs of doing business to worry about (gear is expensive, repair costs suck, hard drives to hold my data as well as my back ups have doubled in price since the floods in Thailand) and why should i take $20 away from my usual charities? as the other poster asked, do you pay $5 every time you walk into your cubicle at your job? at least in my case, going to see a band perform isn't a special event or party time, it's work.
(for the record, none of my friends who have shot Adele recently have mentioned paying the $20 donation, so i'm assuming media passes are either covered by the record label or don't apply)
I have enough costs of doing business to worry about (gear is expensive, repair costs suck, hard drives to hold my data as well as my back ups have doubled in price since the floods in Thailand) and why should i take $20 away from my usual charities? as the other poster asked, do you pay $5 every time you walk into your cubicle at your job? at least in my case, going to see a band perform isn't a special event or party time, it's work.
(for the record, none of my friends who have shot Adele recently have mentioned paying the $20 donation, so i'm assuming media passes are either covered by the record label or don't apply)
yep, that pretty much seals the deal.
i want one of those cameras as my walk-around P&S, badly.
i want one of those cameras as my walk-around P&S, badly.
