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and whoops, i quoted the wrong post.

aaaaaah.
mate - it just keeps coming up with a Google mail login/service screen.....?

It's because google mail isnt a public image hosting thing, its private email, any pics that are sent to you or by you are stored privately, so only you can see it when you're signed into your google account, or if the image is stored in your browser's cache memory. If you want you show people the picture, try uploading it to imageshack, or get a picassa account (picassa's a google service so you shouldnt have to do much to be able to sign up).

lol

This has got to be fiction: Soma Rush to Go ‘Full Monty’ with Removable Decals

Cant see a story anywhere..

All will be revealed tomorrow afternoon, unless Urban Velo were April Foolin':

Banjo Brothers Micro-Fiction Twitter

You may be asking, “WTF is micro-fiction?”

Banjo Brothers plans to release a piece of cycling-themed fiction, by Minneapolis writer Ian Pratt through its Twitter feed on April 2, 2009. The fictional story, which takes place in Minneapolis, will be released in 16 installments of 140 characters each, starting at 8:00am and concluding at 4:00pm.

Visit twitter.com/banjobrothers to follow.

I mean ffs whose gonna wanna read a fictional 16-chapter cycling-based story whose chapters are 140 characters long? I might check it out just because its a novelty to me, but still, wtf, ffs.

Come to critical mass on friday. Pace is a bit slow, but a good way to meet peeps (btw anyone going this week?) and we always end up at a pub.

I've really gone off Critical Mass, but lately I seem to end up going to Pigeon park just to say hello to people, then I end up taking part in the ride for a bit, then getting bored and trying to go home, then riding to the Anchor to meet everyone... It's like an addiction, I don't want to do it but it just sucks me in.

Weather should be good, and it will be nice and light!!!

Thom tried to organize a post-critical mass fixie ride, at a faster pace and a bit further out. Could be good. Or how about organizizing a post-CM polo match, that would be ace, especially now that the clocks have gone forth

I didn't actually say I was trying to quit just to prove that I can - I don't know where you got that idea from.

My MTB is bruk up. The freehub is broken so I need a new hub or wheel. It's converted to singlespeed, but the chain is too tight, so I need a sprocket or chainring that is one tooth smaller than the current one (if I remove one link from the chain, it goes too slack even for the chain tensioner to work on it)

absolutely no way i'll be skidding on my nice new tyres.

Well its only for 20 points, which is equal to 3rd place in one of the 3 races, and there are 5 other events that you can earn points in, so it's up to you whether you think it's worth doing or not.

I think I posted the points structure on the blog, and maybe also the thread on this forum,

^+1, i've gone ss anyway

you just coming to watch then?

if anyone buys 2-pint bottles of milk, please keep yer empties, wash em, real good, fill em with water and bring them to Track Punx

I've only got about 6 bottles so far - 15 will be required.

Otherwise, I'm gonna have to buy 15 cans of beer out of the entry fees and use full cans of beer as the skittles! Winner takes all! If there's anything left!

Also... if anyone can bring a really large empty water bottle, so we can fill it with water and use it to moisten the skidding area, in order to reduce tyre wear and facilitate sideways skidment.

my frames a road frame! it was ok for the rolling bits, but yeah, yuh want the springiness of a flexy steel frame if you wanna ride over bumps and roots and that.

as for the brakeless ting, i hardly ever use front brake on an mtb off road anyway - only for straight, steep descents that rear braking alone would cause skidmentation on. i dont think many people would go fast enough off road on a fixed, to require a front brake. i cant imagine bombing the follow the dog section at cannock at the speed i did would on my mtb... i'd get pedal strike for a start!

I went past Evans on the way home, about 20 past 5, looked for a bike locked up outside but no... did you take it inside? Or had you not arrived yet?

Actually, I just remembered I have to get home early to visit my mate, so I can use his laminating machine for the Track Punks spoke cards

I did a bit of off road on mine, it was fun, but I was scared of mashing the bike up

I might do it on my polo bike

I'll meet ya half five

But then I might just go home

Its all a mystery

Messenjah, I cant be bothered to feed a troll so you carry on taking your photos and we will all carry on taking ours, you live with your equipment and we shall live with ours.

I'm a troll because I have a different personal preference to you? WTF?! .

you can look at what you're shooting on the screen, as well as through the view finder.
like a compact.

though it should be pointed out that you cant see through the viewfinder when youre using live view as the mirror flips up when live view's activated.

but you didn't know they were sharp until the film came back.
if you are at a location or hire studio with props or models (which all costs money) and the client looking over your shoulder do you think you would just chance it, trust the cameras af or use live view to ensure critical focus? it's easy to use and means no fuck-ups, this is a good thing as it puts food on the table and makes your life easier.

And this is what pisses me right off about pro internet photographers

Every argument they make is based on "if you were a pro, and you were doing this or that for a client"

They seem to think that everything that they do relates to amateur photographers too

Listen (or rather, read), try to understand that I am not a pro, and that I do not shoot for clients, or anyone other than myself. Therefore, I do not need to ensure critical focus in order to recieve a salary or to please my boss, therefore, try to understand that while live view and other such tools may be highly useful to you, they may be completely useless to amateur photographers like me.

lol Messenjah you are talking to people who know what they are talking about, I kinda agree with the liveview but the way that you put your point across makes people want to argue with you.
What makes you think I don't know that I'm talking to people who know what they are talking about?

And does that mean you think somehow I don't know what I'm talking about? So.. me saying "live view is useless to me" - does that mean I'm clueless?

just wondering what your settings were because what you described above would only be possible shooting using a small aperture and extremely bright conditions as the depth of field on macro lenses means keeping a certain point in focus handheld is very had as it will shift every small movement.

Like I said... f/5.6ish on a sunny day. Only wanted the centre of the flower in focus. It was about four years ago, but if I remember rightly, the shutter was about 1/180 of a second (I remember it wasn't much higher than 1/f), ISO 100 slide film. In some of the shots I used a piece of white paper to block the sun, to de-harshify the shadows. Used hand-held TTL flash set to about -1 & 2/3 of a stop on some of the shots, dunno if I used it on this one, but I may have - but in either case I was holding the camera with one hand. Kneeling down so I was probably resting the lens on my knee. If you think that;'s impossible, then, well you're entitled to your opinion :-)

Like I said... it was moving, and it was difficult to keep it in focus, but I didn't just shoot one picture, you know? If I wasn't just doing it for the sake of trying the lens out maybe I would have brought the flower indoors and shot it in a breezeless environment with the camera on a tripod... because then I'd be able to 'win' an argument about live view on an internet forum, or something.

No....just high on the restraining order list! ;)

lol well I already am banned from using a camera in public, or going within 50m of ANY woman ;)

seriously though man, rubbing your cheeks (face cheeks obviously, not butt cheeks) on a girls furry soft forearms, its a nice comforting sensation

possibly

im supposed to have quit drinking but im sure plenty others will be up for beerage

ffs you talk a lot of shit!

my mum could take a pic of a flower and get something in focus.

live view in the studio is invaluable. Every SLR camera going forward will have Liveview - it's going to be like AF.

Bellend.

Who cares about what your mum can and can't do? Who cares about shooting still life in a studio? Do I shoot still life in a studio? Erm, NO.

My point was that I (or anyone else for that matter) can get something in perfectly sharp focus without live view, therefore it's unnecessary for me.

Maybe it's useful for you, but I didn't say it wasn't useful for you, did I?

May I reiterate, 'bellend' (you).

Christ MessenJah, stop blaming your equipment! I don't see Ansel Adams complaining about bringing his home made large format camera with lens that are never as good as a modern day 50mm around Yosemite several decades ago!

Err... for what exactly am I supposedly blaming my equipment? To blame something for something, surely something must have gone wrong. NOTHING HAS GONE WRONG so how can I be blaming equipment for something?

My friend's band is named after people like you

Actually, i am very Homophobic.

Fucking can't stand the geezer.

Despite the lameness of this thread, can I just say that I love those soft hairs on womens arms. I really like to stroke them, it makes me feel all tickly. Does that make me weird?