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helmet thread ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10640839/Michael-Schumacher-skiing-crash-did-helmet-camera-cause-head-injuries.html

I've been asking for years whether or not having lights fitted to the top of a helmet would affect the helmet in an impact and no one has ever given me a persuasive answer.

And, so, I suppose Armstrong was the best too? He only cheated other cheaters, right? Because when they are all doing it, it is a level playing field isn't it? Except they weren't all doing it, a few chose not to and they deserve to be remembered when people are eulogising Pantani.
Bjarne Riis was ridiculed for being Mr 60%, the perfect example of a donkey turned in to a race horse by drugs. But Pantani's haematocrit was 60% when he crashed in Milan-Turin. Why was he not a natural donkey? Well, because he had panache, style, charisma and he attacked. I watched Bjarne Riis attack on Hautacum in 1996. He had no charm or style but he attacked. Admittedly he wasn't an Italian on a Bianchi so obviously he can't be compared to the great Pantani.
We don't know what his natural ability was because he never raced without doping and doping can transform some people more than it does others. I liked Pantani but I can't bear to watch racing from that era any more because it's just pathetically sad and ridiculous and nobody embodies that better than Pantani. He convinced himself, as Armstrong did, that he was naturally great and the drugs had nothing to do with it. Continuing to maintain that conceit on his behalf after his death doesn't really do his memory any favours.

Ta.

10 year bump. I've still never seen a better climber.

This is no more credible than people who still insist Armstrong was the best ever Tour rider. Pantani was a screwed up, desperate and unhappy man whose achievements are as tainted as those of the other cheats he rode alongside or ahead of.
His life was sad and his death tragic and sordid but there's no need to keep claiming that we know anything of his 'natural' ability.

King Cobras vs 6Feet Under
Sunday 16th Feb, 11am, Mitch.

If anyone if available to at least time keep game, let us know. Thanks.

Is this going ahead? The calendar is empty.

He did sell some beautiful lies though.

^ World Press Photo results are out. Won by John Stanmeyer, founding member of VII. Chair of the jury? Gary Knight, founding member of VII.

Should we clear our minds with some pics?

. Having to keep talking to a stranger while fiddling has taught me to have almost normal human interactions.

You sick bastard.

http://www.progettodogma.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/20120402-1952271.jpg

he said it in an interview I saw last week, I think. Seems like it is a recent move. He also uses a Hasselblad.
I'm not advocating anyone copy the equipment of anyone else, just that I find the prime lens evangelism a bit dogmatic at times. Practical limitations can be a good thing (George Lucas went to the trouble of making 3 new Star Wars films just to show what can go wrong when you don't have any limits) but nor are they necessarily a good or productive thing.

The other thing is, just because it's a zoom lens it doesn't mean you have to zoom it. I often stick mine at about the 35mm point and leave it there when I know the subject will suit it. Even if I don't do that deliberately, looking through the exif date I can see how often I end up around 35mm. But, when I need something wider or longer, they are there. And now I am boring even myself.
On last point though - don't use a longer lens as an excuse not to get closer up to people when you are photographing them. I'd rather die than enter a room full of strangers but with a camera I can overcome that shyness and it's led to many great meetings.

I think it's the case that the 50mm only became the 'standard' lens because at the time wider angle lenses couldn't be made to produce adequately sharp pictures. Once they could the 35mm became much more commonly used by professionals than the 50mm. One of the reasons the 50mm fetish continues is because that is what Henri Cartier Bresson used (most of the time, he did use a 35 occasionally). It's become a totem of 'simple' and 'authentic' photography but I am still very unconvinced that the benefits of using a single prime lens outweigh the disadavantages for most people, most of the time. Steve McCurry only uses a 24-110 f4 (on a full frame sensor) and he seems to do ok.

I am very much a noob in all things photography,

but I look at this image and think great looking sky, but the building on the right is well overexposed?

Will, those are really nice shots. care to share some details - location at very least?
Cheers
Steve

They are Venice - taken off Google street view. I have only limited control over how Google expose their pictures. You write them letter after letter and do they listen? No, they do not.

Really cool shots, was there some manipulation of the files?

I may have removed the Google stamp from them.

If his love shaft is at the same angle as his saddle it means he's in the mood.

Don't you mean "in the hope that Ed is there waiting"?

I salute your even temper. Some people might have been tempted to say 'Ed, why don't you, for once, just shut your fucking cake hole and not give advice to people who have not asked for it about looking behind/taking the lane/staying calm/buttering a slice of toast/tying your shoelaces correctly/avoiding poking yourself in the eye with a biro".

Prav and someone else have both fixed wheels of mine in this way... or maybe with the more subtle standing on it method.

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Haymakers vs King Cobras

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/sets/72157640734174164/

Salamander on BBC 4 has started promisingly.

Previously on AMC's The Walking Dead...
Rick's throaty whisper survives and Carl is now a man so he'd better start mumbling too. Someone decided to give Michonne a bit of back story. Apparently before the zombies, sorry, walkers, arrived she lived in a very badly written soap opera. Who would have guessed.

They missed out the rac.

See, if only the BNP were a bit kinder they'd achieve so much more.

Utter shite in the dark though, and if you point it at the sun.

I don't really get what you are saying.

Pretty fair summary of the Sigma, amazing camera but poor in night and direct sunshine.

Ah, now it makes sense.