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William H. Hathaway wrote:
> thedeepabyss@whoever.com wrote:
> ...
>
>> Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
>> quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
>> used them all on numerous occasions.
>>
>
> Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
> But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
> and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.
>
>> Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
>> taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
>> should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
>> RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
>> that exact same moment again.....
>
>
> Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max resolution
> takes
> so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
> missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
> a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
> (Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
> a government as it is ...)
>
> But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I missed
> for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
> when I
> thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
> than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
> seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
> capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
> in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
> The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
> images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
> recorded on hard drive?
>
Interesting you mention this, but someone has already explored the idea
of recording memories for others to view.... and a large bag of popcorn
is strongly recommended.
====================================
Plot Summary for the film "Brainstorm" (1983)
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed
a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people.
Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added
in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back
recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the
time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral
out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close
again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project,
others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical
but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael
and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the
technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is
interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts
producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material.
When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death,
Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory
of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher
dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight
against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run
his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us
will ever face" - death itself.
http
/www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/plotsummary
--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
William H. Hathaway wrote:
> thedeepabyss@whoever.com wrote:
> ...
>
>> Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
>> quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
>> used them all on numerous occasions.
>>
>
> Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
> But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
> and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.
>
>> Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
>> taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
>> should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
>> RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
>> that exact same moment again.....
>
>
> Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max resolution
> takes
> so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
> missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
> a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
> (Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
> a government as it is ...)
>
> But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I missed
> for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
> when I
> thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
> than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
> seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
> capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
> in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
> The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
> images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
> recorded on hard drive?
>
Interesting you mention this, but someone has already explored the idea
of recording memories for others to view.... and a large bag of popcorn
is strongly recommended.
====================================
Plot Summary for the film "Brainstorm" (1983)
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed
a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people.
Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added
in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back
recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the
time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral
out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close
again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project,
others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical
but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael
and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the
technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is
interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts
producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material.
When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death,
Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory
of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher
dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight
against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run
his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us
will ever face" - death itself.
http
/www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/plotsummary--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
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