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Quote: AcesAndEightsThat is amusing. Were you able to tell if they were trying to cleverly trick you, or if they just put the "all of the other answers" option in the wrong place?
I tried that app as it was getting popular last week. Personally I find the questions terrible. Most of them are super easy, and then BAM you'll get one that's nearly impossible unless you're an expert in whatever niche the question is about.
They probably just put it in the wrong place. I don't think their intent was to eliminate the choices down to answer 3 or answer 4.
The question was something like "which team did Peyton Manning never play for?"
1) colts
2) all of the above
3) broncos
4) buccaneers
http://www.explodingkittens.com/#how
Pretty sure it's little tiny hairs with the aide of gravity that pushes it along.Quote: RSWhat causes you to poop? I mean I understand food + digestion = turns into poop. But what actually forces it out? It cant just chill in there?
Quote: rudeboyoiOh neat. I was wondering why the artwork looked familiar. It was part created by the oatmeal. They prob did the artwork. I like the tacocat. I am a palindrome!
I like palindromes too. I have this Tacocat shirt.
muscles around your digestive tract push things along in a wave like action... It sure would be convenient if we could pick the timeQuote: RSWhat causes you to poop? I mean I understand food + digestion = turns into poop. But what actually forces it out? It cant just chill in there?
Quote: RSWhat causes you to poop? I mean I understand food + digestion = turns into poop. But what actually forces it out? It cant just chill in there?
Peristalsis.
My wife wants to buy a "nice" digital camera. I have been looking around and I recently saw what appears to be a good deal on a Nikon 3200. http://www.target.com/p/nikon-d3200-24-2mp-digital-slr-camera-with-18-55mm-and-55-200mm-lenses-black/-/A-14962596
It comes with a bag and 2 lenses. I was just curious if anyone on here has this camera or could recommend a camera like this for this price or less.
The reviews on it seem pretty good. The thing I don't like about reviews is that people post them after having it for a few days. Everything seems better right away but as you start to use it you find out that something isn't very good.
I later figured out that the problem was in my Nikkor AF-S 18-70mm lens, which misbehaved the same way with the new Nikon body. I had the lens repaired to use with the D3200, and the D70 is now essentially unused.
I am generally satisfied with the D3200. You should be aware that not all Nikkor "automatic" lenses will work properly with it. The AF70-300mm lens that I bought in 2004 works fine with the D70 but will not auto-focus with the D3200. The lens does not contain the necessary drive and relies on components built into the camera body -- part of the D70 but not part of the D3200. The 70-300 lens works fine with the D3200 if you focus manually.
If you buy the body and lenses as a set, I suspect they will be compatible units, but that Target ad isn't particularly specific about just which lenses are included, only giving the focal length ranges. I haven't looked to see just what Nikkor lenses are available these days, but they have a lot of them in similar zoom ranges. The photo shows the body, lenses, and a bag, but I don't think the ad mentions the bag. You might verify exactly what you would be getting.
The Target price of $499.99 for the D3200 body and two lenses sounds pretty good with or without the bag. I paid that two years ago for just the body. I don't have any idea what newer models might be out or on the near horizon.
I am not sure what type of lense this comes with but it all comes in 1 box from nikon. One review of the lens said that the type of lense requires a tripod to get a good picture. I cant remember what they called it.
Quote: GWAEMy wife's one concern is speed of taking pics, is that shutter speed? We bought a cheap nikon 3 years ago, something like 99.99. It takes nice pictures but it pauses for a sec or 2 in between shots. Even my s4 phone can snap pictures as fast as you can click. How is the speed of pictures with this one?
I am not sure what type of lense this comes with but it all comes in 1 box from nikon. One review of the lens said that the type of lense requires a tripod to get a good picture. I cant remember what they called it.
Not sure what that's called, but would have more to do with buffer and speed of the memory. The shutter speed is how fast the shutter opens and closes, letting light through the lens into the sensor.
Quote: wudgedNot sure what that's called, but would have more to do with buffer and speed of the memory. The shutter speed is how fast the shutter opens and closes, letting light through the lens into the sensor.
I kinda thought that is what it was. I was just assuming the slowness was the shutter but I guess it makes more sense that it would be actual speed of the camera.
First of all, there is no substantial delay between shots, as you might get with an older or inexpensive digital camera. The D3200 has a setting for "continuous" shooting plus has a capability for capturing video. If you really want HD video from this camera (which is possible), you need to get a very high speed memory card. My primary card is labeled with a speed rating of 10 and is specifically marked as "1080p HD". I don't really need that capability.
Continuous shooting is different from video -- it captures completely separate still images. I don't know what the specs for the D3200 are, but I just ran a very amateurish test. I set it for continuous mode and held the shutter button down for roughly a second, and it took four shots. Then I tried the same thing for roughly five seconds, and it definitely slowed down after a few seconds. I suspect that was a memory buffering issue, and I only got 17 images in those five seconds. That is for a JPEG "fine" resolution image in a "large" size, giving a 6016x4000 pixel image that is 13.7MB when I transfer it to my computer. I personally have no need to capture such rapid sequential shots.
If you just want to take one still picture at a time, you will never notice a delay before the camera has stored the image and is ready to take another one.
Of course, when talking pics, I'd certain defer to Doc. He's Gordon Ramsay. I'm Chef Boy-ar-dee.
P.S. - Please clean it up, RS.
Quote: GWAEOne review of the lens said that the type of lense requires a tripod to get a good picture. I cant remember what they called it.
Just caught this comment. One of the lenses that you mentioned offers a maximum focal length of 200mm. With a longer focal length lens, it becomes increasingly difficult to get an image without blur while hand-holding the camera, particularly if you print enlargements or crop significantly. My longer lens zooms to 300mm, and I have indeed made hand-held shots with a quality level that I find acceptable. A lot of that depends on shutter speed, how steady your hands are, and how much blur you are willing to accept. I'm a hack and accept a lot of shortcomings in my photography -- I just try to find subjects that are interesting enough that others enjoy looking at the pictures and don't worry about the details.
Ha! I notice the same thing, I was going to quote him and jokingly say, "I hope you get 3 days for this filthy language".Quote: Face
P.S. - Please clean it up, RS.
But then I would have felt bad if it actually happen. I would've gotten over it.
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The question I always have for folks considering a DSLR is, "What will you use it for?" They are bulky and heavy. You need a substantial investment in batteries, memory cards/drives, and a computer for storing and editing the large files. The flexibility of interchangable lenses, and nearly infinite manual settings along with the ability to produce very large, high quality prints are all positives, but will your wife actually use them?Quote: DocThere are actually quite a few things on the subject of "speed" with the D3200. One, of course, is shutter speed associated with proper exposure of a single image. Another is the minimum interval between successive images. The latter of those is impacted by the rate at which the data can be stored onto the memory card.
First of all, there is no substantial delay between shots, as you might get with an older or inexpensive digital camera. The D3200 has a setting for "continuous" shooting plus has a capability for capturing video. If you really want HD video from this camera (which is possible), you need to get a very high speed memory card. My primary card is labeled with a speed rating of 10 and is specifically marked as "1080p HD". I don't really need that capability.
Continuous shooting is different from video -- it captures completely separate still images. I don't know what the specs for the D3200 are, but I just ran a very amateurish test. I set it for continuous mode and held the shutter button down for roughly a second, and it took four shots. Then I tried the same thing for roughly five seconds, and it definitely slowed down after a few seconds. I suspect that was a memory buffering issue, and I only got 17 images in those five seconds. That is for a JPEG "fine" resolution image in a "large" size, giving a 6016x4000 pixel image that is 13.7MB when I transfer it to my computer. I personally have no need to capture such rapid sequential shots.
If you just want to take one still picture at a time, you will never notice a delay before the camera has stored the image and is ready to take another one.
How much do you spend on batteries Doc? Did you spring for a separate flash too?
Quote: AyecarumbaHow much do you spend on batteries Doc? Did you spring for a separate flash too?
I have two batteries for the D3200, both rechargeable lithium-ion and both purchased at the time I bought the camera body. One is a 1030 mAh with a Nikon label, and the other is a 1900 mAh with a Vivitar label. I don't really know who made them. I try to remember to have both of them charged before I head out on an extended trip, but usually I can make a reasonable trip with quite a few photos without ever changing out the battery. The charger is quite small and slips easily into my camera bag, so I have it available for recharging batteries any evening back in a hotel room or ship cabin.
I have not owned a separate flash unit in many years. I rarely use flash for my photos anyway; I'd rather have the color shift of incandescent lighting that the red-eye from flash. For example, none of the photos I posted here from the 2015 WoV Winter Event involved a flash at all. Many people would prefer the improved look from fill-in flash, but I prefer not to be the tourist attracting everyone's attention/annoyance at the restaurant by flashing his camera all the time.
Quote: AyecarumbaThe question I always have for folks considering a DSLR is, "What will you use it for?" They are bulky and heavy. You need a substantial investment in batteries, memory cards/drives, and a computer for storing and editing the large files. The flexibility of interchangable lenses, and nearly infinite manual settings along with the ability to produce very large, high quality prints are all positives, but will your wife actually use them?
How much do you spend on batteries Doc? Did you spring for a separate flash too?
I couldn't agree with this more but my wife wants it. Need I say more. She loves pictures, she isn't great at taking them but we have more than 700gb of pictures on our hard drive.
Doc, if you had no camera equipment at all would you purchase this camera again or would you look to a different model. Of course, assuming max spending is around this amount.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/world/taiwan-plane-crash-transasia/
I am never going to Asia
Quote: GWAEWholly crap
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/world/taiwan-plane-crash-transasia/
I am never going to Asia
I think you are being a little dramatic. I will go to Asia, but I am driving there.
Its a low cost carrier in Asia not well known for its rigorous training. For two weeks a simulator had broken rudder pedals: Australian and New Zealand airlines refused to use it, but Transasia and others happily did.Quote: DRichI think you are being a little dramatic.
The pilot prior to taking off wanted the left engine examined by a mechanic but was told "you take off now or we hire some other burger flipper to take off". He took off, the engine became unreliable. In an ATR 72 you can't rely on an engine that surges, its better to shut it down completely and feather the prop (auto feathering is usually available, but not always). From the photos and pitch angles it looks like he was fully stalled but may have banked to avoid obstructions. The drag from an unfeathered prop at low speed is worse than being totally without an engine on that side.
That pilot had written up that engine three times... he won't be writing complaints about it anymore.
Quote: FleaStiffIts a low cost carrier in Asia not well known for its rigorous training. For two weeks a simulator had broken rudder pedals: Australian and New Zealand airlines refused to use it, but Transasia and others happily did.
The pilot prior to taking off wanted the left engine examined by a mechanic but was told "you take off now or we hire some other burger flipper to take off". He took off, the engine became unreliable. In an ATR 72 you can't rely on an engine that surges, its better to shut it down completely and feather the prop (auto feathering is usually available, but not always). From the photos and pitch angles it looks like he was fully stalled but may have banked to avoid obstructions. The drag from an unfeathered prop at low speed is worse than being totally without an engine on that side.
That pilot had written up that engine three times... he won't be writing complaints about it anymore.
I think you may have missed the point of my post.
"I will go to Asia, but I am DRIVING there".
Quote: DRichI think you may have missed the point of my post.
"I will go to Asia, but I am DRIVING there".
What do you drive? lol Remember when you get there to stay on the left side of the sky.
Years ago I had figured something out -- there is absolutely no reason, ever, that I'd want to go to Asia. Why would you? I don't need a few plane crashes to keep me out of there.
Quote: RSJust because a bunch of Asian airplanes crash doesn't mean you shouldn't go to Asia.
Years ago I had figured something out -- there is absolutely no reason, ever, that I'd want to go to Asia. Why would you? I don't need a few plane crashes to keep me out of there.
Haha that is very true. I was just trying to come up with a reason to and I could not come up with one.
It would be crazy to be on the bridge when that plane ca me a crossed it.
The Air Florida plane that took off from wintery Washington National airport with its deicing set in the OFF condition out of habit hit a bridge first. Many planes in the USA have hit cars.
Asia? Some retired people love it there. Three servants for twenty five dollars a month. Interesting foods.
Multimillion dollar yachts call at Phuket every year. I would not care for it because food and drink vendors freely sell various "additives" and if you look at USA history during Prohibition you'll see that we did too despite the obvious neurological damage.
Middle east? I've seen pictures of camels and pyramids... that is enough.
Tunisia... the birthplace of the Moslem Spring? Don't kid yourself, the Saudi sponsored ISIS will behead everyone in that nation eventually.
But for truly strange additives, I personally prefer one of the many super exotic Asian locations of something named "Starbucks." One of them one in Manila inside the three story Robinson's shopping mall near Taft Avenue just inside the entrance nearest one of those "supermarket" things and just a few blocks from Philippine Women's University is particularly good for people watching & meeting & greeting & suchlike, IMO. That is, once I manage to convince the inevitably charming Filipina at the Starbucks counter that a double latte really won't be too much for my tender American palate, despite her concern that this local delicacy might send me into orbit or make me drop dead from its potency.
Is it hard to understand? In Asia, food is frequently purchased from places called "supermarkets" rather than from people with mysterious secret additives on streetcorners. Oddly enough, they are exactly like places in Phoenix or Pittsburgh or Portland that are called "supermarkets." Some other times, food & beverages are purchased from places with names like "7-11" "Pizza Hut" "Kentucky Fried Chicken" "McDonald's" "Subway" "Starbucks" and the like. And strangely enough, they have the same stuff for sale inside. Duh.
Quote: DrawingDead
Is it hard to understand? In Asia, food is frequently purchased from places called "supermarkets"
So Asia is exactly like the US. Same health
standards, same food inspection process.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Quote: DrawingDeadMr. Stiff (or may I call you Flea?) It is a pet peeve of mine encountering folks who construct bizarre fantasies springing entirely from their own stunted imaginations about the presumed inferiority of places they have never been, as they perpetually cower behind the bark dust in their suburbs.
As to Bizarre Fantasies, may I suggest you contact the forensic pathologists involved in the deaths of:
Noemi Belanger Canada
Audrey Belanger Canada
Kari Bowerman American
Cathy Huyuh Canadian
Davina Lindgren Norway
Attribution:
DEET
Chlorpyrifos
Diesel (fusel oil)
Ain't none of those forensic pathologists ever suggested these Asian deaths were caused by a Double Latte from Starbucks.
Quote: EvenBobSo Asia is exactly like the US. Same health
standards, same food inspection process.
Thanks for clearing that up.
When I was in Hong Kong many years ago, we noticed that McDonald's was significantly better there than in the US.
The Australian beef made a difference.
Quote: 1BBHas anyone watched Backstrom on Fox? Two words - it stinks. Two more words - Rainn Wilson. I could watch the show just to see him, without even following the tired old plots. He's that good! Dennis Haysbert costars. These guys deserve better.
He will forever be known as Dwight schrut to me and countless others.
Oh good freaking Cliff Claven trailer-trash God; I did indeed just read multiple lurid accounts of the first two. So you believe it would be difficult to find similar accounts of deaths among young people staying at backpacker hostels partying and ingesting whatever concoctions of "euphoria inducing substances" are handed to them by their new best friends they just met, perhaps including bug spray and Drano and cough syrup in the mix, somewhere in the US? Perhaps in Las Vegas or LA? Complete with grieving parents? Maybe at the Electric Daisy Carnival perhaps? Why that could never happen.Quote: FleaStiffAs to Bizarre Fantasies, may I suggest you contact the forensic pathologists involved in the deaths of:
Quote: Las Vegas SunIt is the third reported death among young people in Las Vegas for the three-day festival...
Authorities expect it will take several weeks to determine the cause and manner of his death, pending lab reports....
In the other deaths, Montgomery Tsang, 25, of California, died after being taken to the hospital from the festival parking lot Saturday morning and Anthony Anaya, 25, of Everett, Wash., who also attended the festival, died after he was found unconscious at the Vdara on Saturday night, authorities said.
Medical examiners were awaiting the results of blood toxicology tests before determining how Anaya and Tsang died, Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said.
Yes, you can choose to do sketchy things in dubious places in the US, and you can also do so in Asia if you like. Asia is a continent, covering more than 30% of the land area of the planet, comprised of over 4 billion individual people who contrary to popular belief among American trailer park denizens are individuals that are are very different from one another in highly varied circumstances within more than fifty very different nations that are at least as different or more so from one another as are the USA & Mexico & Canada & Haiti.Quote: LVRJBut there were at least two deaths of EDC participants this year...
There were 794 medical calls, and 25 of those people had to be taken to hospitals.
The number of serious incidents was on par with past EDC events.
But I'll definitely want to pay a lot of attention to the vocal Bobs & Bubbas who know a whole lot about it because they've read something about something somewhere five years ago about a place they have never been, and I shall now become very, very, extra super fearful about places where I have lived, and the people I have lived with, and whose homes I've been pleased to be a guest. But no more. I'll have to tell them to stop writing and calling and talking to me about future trips to see them all again, because people on a gambling degenerate forum who've never been near there know all about dem-dar exotic type places and that I may be likely to drop dead - to their great sorrow, I'm sure.
But in fairness, some of the same dreck can be found anywhere. I've had some people in some Asian nations inquire if I'm not afraid of coming back to living in the US, because they "know" all about what a very dangerous place it is.
Wow. I don't know where to begin.
I did acknowledge that the beverages in South East Asia were not unlike our countries rot gut liquor of the Prohibition Era.
I did acknowledge in an earlier post that even the word "Asian" embraces China, Japan and Korea in the USA, Bangledeshi and Pakistanii in the UK and Malaysian or Indonesian in Australia.
I don't know who Cliff Caven is/was.
Yes, drug oriented festivals in North America can waste promising young lives. So can drug festivals abroad.
Of course the young ladies who died in their hotel room had not been in Asia long enough to have been exploring dangerous activities. Even that Silicon Valley expert who ingested diesel fuel at a Vietnamese wedding was unwise.
Quote: 1BBHas anyone watched Backstrom on Fox? Two words - it stinks. Two more words - Rainn Wilson. I could watch the show just to see him, without even following the tired old plots. He's that good! Dennis Haysbert costars. These guys deserve better.
I didn't think it started yet. I was looking forward to it so that is a shame if it sucks.
Why is that? Are there geographical limitations?Quote: rudeboyoiThere's hardly any traffic.
Quote: FleaStiffWhy is that? Are there geographical limitations?
Yah. Nevada only.
Quote: GWAEI didn't think it started yet. I was looking forward to it so that is a shame if it sucks.
I'm just tired of the same old whodunits but I guess there's nothing new anymore. By all means watch. There are some good characters and Wilson nails it every time he opens his mouth and even when he doesn't.
There's even a gay guy who is actually likeable and plays well off Wilson's Backstrom character. Yes, another obligatory gay in prime time. Is anyone surprised or would you be surprised if there wasn't?
