Paul Buff wrote:
Kacey, I wish you would quit trying to be my buddy or peer or advisor whatever. You have made it very clear about how you feel. Please give it up.
Well, that hurts.... I thought we were bonding there for a second. What else are we going to talk about for the coming weeks until all the parts are in? Don't worry you have no obligation for any input. We did make progress on getting rid of those holes around the flash tube of the E1.... I've seen many suggestions tossed your way from various members here we have no stake if you implement them or not.
Could you imagine if the head of camera design for Nikon or Canon came to the forums here and listened and interacted with all the feature and design requests? It would be mayhem.
Kacey wrote:
Well, that hurts.... I thought we were bonding there for a second. What else are we going to talk about for the coming weeks until all the parts are in? Don't worry you have no obligation for any input. We did make progress on getting rid of those holes around the flash tube of the E1.... I've seen many suggestions tossed your way from various members here we have no stake if you implement them or not.
Sounds like Kacey is still trying to play "poke the bear".
"Could you imagine if the head of camera design for Nikon or Canon came to the forums here and listened and interacted with all the feature and design requests? It would be mayhem."
Exactly. Hopefully they are working hard to get new product out the door.
brett maxwell wrote:
Could you imagine if the head of camera design for Nikon or Canon came to the forums here and listened and interacted with all the feature and design requests? It would be mayhem.
I imagine Canon would totally cripple us right where it hurts.
No more "magical" 5d2s that people would sell their 1ds3s for.
Not sure what Nikon would do, make shit even awesomer but forget to visit the Lens Forums ?
If Paul is gone that is sad.
But it is not my board, so they can do what they like.
I am sure there are good reasons, this has always been a great place.
I still learn so much here, not just about photograph.
I mostly hung out on this forum to see what was new, and hear what Paul was working on. While I probably won't be checking this forum much (if at all) in the the future, I'll still be around on the Nikon and B&W forums. I used to get a LOT of insight on this forum, probably more than any other photo board I frequent anywhere. Now it will just be another forum where people who don't know sit and speculate anyway. Sort of like the NIkon forum, . One of the things I do NOT like about FM forums is the moderators seem to be anonymous and can do stuff in a cowardly fashion.
FM doesn't ban people or lock threads often. Actually, this is the first case of banning I've seen. According to his own forum, he was banned for critiquing another vendors lights.
I don't think he was critiquing as much as clarifying technical attributes associated with variable voltage limitations associated with color variance.
As I explained to someone ... when you change the temperature of heat applied to steel, it will change colors, i.e. red hot, white hot, etc. So it is with voltage changes to the filament ... it must have a color shift when you lower the voltage (if I understand correctly).
RustyBug wrote:
As I explained to someone ... when you change the temperature of heat applied to steel, it will change colors, i.e. red hot, white hot, etc. So it is with voltage changes to the filament ... it must have a color shift when you lower the voltage (if I understand correctly).
That's correct for incandescent lamps, but electronic flash doesn't work that way; they work by passing a current through a tube of zenon gas, similar to a flourescent light or neon tube but much faster. Instead of hot filaments they have conductive electrodes.
Robb Mann wrote:
FM doesn't ban people or lock threads often. Actually, this is the first case of banning I've seen. According to his own forum, he was banned for critiquing another vendors lights.
That's his excuse, but it's a pretty poor one. If you read his posts over the years, you'll see that he often exibited rude and trollish behavior, hijacked threads, misrepresented other posters' statements, over-reacted when disagreed with, and otherwise acted in a manner that bore a strong resemblance to narcissistic personality disorder.
His most resent outbursts in a thread about a non-PCB product was, I suspect the last straw. For him to imply that his being banned was due to a supposed relationship between Fred Miranda and advertisers is just another of his irrational rantings as far as I'm concerned.
BrianO wrote:
His most resent outbursts in a thread about a non-PCB product was, I suspect the last straw. For him to imply that his being banned was due to a supposed relationship between Fred Miranda and advertisers is just another of his irrational rantings as far as I'm concerned.
It's especially funny given that most people have assume the reason he has still been on FM is because he's mates with Fred!
Good to see he's encouraging his loyal followers (via his forum) to troll FM, as well. Classy.
BrianO wrote:
That's his excuse, but it's a pretty poor one. If you read his posts over the years, you'll see that he often exibited rude and trollish behavior, hijacked threads, misrepresented other posters' statements, over-reacted when disagreed with, and otherwise acted in a manner that bore a strong resemblance to narcissistic personality disorder.
His most resent outbursts in a thread about a non-PCB product was, I suspect the last straw. For him to imply that his being banned was due to a supposed relationship between Fred Miranda and advertisers is just another of his irrational rantings as far as I'm concerned.
. One of the things I do NOT like about FM forums is the moderators seem to be anonymous and can do stuff in a cowardly fashion.
... forgot about the gas vs. filament. (Won't a change in voltage through the gas still render a different result?)