[AGL] Mac Attack

[Bill Irwin]

If you only have limited funds to spend on photography the best investment is the camera and accessories rather that the computer.  Any computer that can run Photoshop will do just fine,  memory is the most important thing - get 2-4 gigs at least.  If resolution is important, and it generally is if you are going to make prints, then the most economical way to go is an automatic film camera such as the Cannon Elan7 ( generally less than $300) and a film scanner that can scan 4000 DPI, this will get you very near to film grain.  A comparable digital camera will cost you over $25,000.  Computers don't make photographs, photographers do,  you can make a damn good photo with no computer at all.  If you like hype get the Mac, either one will do a good job.

If we are going to do reviews of home appliances shouldn't we expand a bit and cover other appliances?  My toaster is better than your toaster and my toast tastes better than your toast.  My vacuum cleaner really sucks also.
Ewie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: bakhirun bakhirun 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:33 PM
  Subject: [AGL] Mac Attack


  I am trying to remember the quote from Spanish. It goes something like "...lo que sabe el burro de matematika..." (but it is probably dirtier).

  I too have a rather long history of rasslin' with personal computers. Artist friends in Montreal first baptized me with a creaky Mac 512 in 1986. I well remember the mental agonies required, at the age of 45, in having to learn to follow every tiny rule and neat keystroke. Then I moved in with an old pal in New York and used her MultiMate, on DOS. When I came to Indonesia and started working as a copywriter I had to use WP5.1 because everybody else was. Bye-bye Maccy at that point.

  But I am basically a visual expressionist and the lure of the wild has always hovered at the (event) horizon. I took a look at the iMac 24. Jeez, it looks like a home theatre. And all the reviews, even from the non-Mac crowd, are replete with wows. 

  So I'm going for it. As we used to say at the Campus Guild, "Faint heart never screwed the cook."

  Thankee

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  On 3/6/07, Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:
    You know about as much about computers as I do about horses... 
    G


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>
    To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
    <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
    Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:45 PM
    Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)


    That's okay. But, not flexibility, or bang for the buck—know where to 
    buy and from whom. Software/hardware, maybe, maybe just a little
    inferior.  One may get used to a corncob, but I prefer Charmin.  Yes, a
    macsnob, but I don't mind.  mm

    On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Gerry wrote: 

    > <<Macs are better in every sense!<<
    >
    > Except cost, bang for the buck, flexibility, general availability of a
    > huge
    > selection of software and hardware, etc.
    >
    > The one and only area that Macs established an early following and
    > have been
    > able to keep it is graphic arts...oh yeah, and cuteness...
    >
    > Not intending to start a "my computer is better than yours war" but 
    > resisting such an extreme statement as yours.
    >
    > On the DOS platform since 1985,
    > G
    >
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "michele mason" < yaya.m at earthlink.net>
    > To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
    > <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
    > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:38 AM
    > Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)
    >
    >
    >> Macs are better in every sense! That's my story....and you know.
    >> Sincerely, I am a Mac-person and wouldn't have anything else. Its just 
    >> a matter of which one you need. That ?, I would direct to Dave
    >> Moriaty.
    >>
    >> Best regards,  Michele
    >>
    >> On Feb 15, 2007, at 5:49 AM, blacky at cbn.net.id wrote:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> I have decided to plunk down two thousand clams for a 24-inch iMac,
    >>> primarily to use for photo work and video editing.
    >>> 
    >>>
    >>> (a) Hooray for you, Byron. Go for it.
    >>>
    >>> (b) Yer bonkers, mate.
    >>>
    >>> Considering that all the furniture in my house is waterlogged, and 
    >>> that
    >>> this sum represents a prodigious amount of dough for me, my esteemed
    >>> colleagues and most valued peers are staring at me like I have lost
    >>> my
    >>> fucking mind. 
    >>>
    >>> Wish me luck folks. Anyhow the way I look at it since I spend 25% of
    >>> my
    >>> waking hours staring at a stupid screen it may as well be a
    >>> whizz-bang 
    >>> one.
    >>>
    >>> Any, er, comments? Feedback? Warnings?
    >>>
    >>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >




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