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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
You should read Mark Twains "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court" to
see how he dealt with this kind of time shift. wrote in message ... Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? If you just happen to have a digital camera, say a Canon digital rebel (or D Mark II, or Nikon D2x, whatever) with a fully charged battery, and say a 1GB compact flash (heck, say a 10gb cf). How would you use it? It's unlikely that you'll be able to charge the battery once it's gone. If you will never make it back to our time, do you think the compact flash will retain its data for a few thousand years? Under the assumption that it might retain the data for a while, how would you shoot? Are you gonna shoot raw? JPG, what compression level? What do you think is more worthwhile to archeologists, 1000 medium grade pictures, or 500 higher grade pictures? Or 200 raw pictures? On the other hand, if you happen to have say a film camera, with a few roll of film, say 10-20, what would you do? For the sake of argument I'll assume the film camera also takes battery, but those batteries might last a bit longer. However, there's no place to buy additional battery or develop the film, so it's also unlikely that it will last a few thousand years for us to see anyway.... If we change the scenario a bit, let's say you get 'rescued' after 3 years, but you don't know that, but you are under the assumption that you will be rescued after some time, how would you use your camera to document this once in a lifetime never before possible encounter to the world? If you have your pick of equipment, what would it be? Whatever you pick, it has to fit in a backpack. Me, I think I'll take a DSLR that takes AA battery and a few GB of compact flash, and a solar AA battery charger, and a GPS that writes the tracklog to compact flash and virtually unlimited waypoint storage, that also takes AA batteries Or, I could use a fully mechanical film camera and some bulk films. Raymond |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
Al Denelsbeck wrote:
I would probably take a Nikon F5. I would then seek out the ancestors of a few key people, and use it to bash their skulls in. Other than that, what possible use would I have for a camera that far back? I'd be too busy trying to invent toilet paper... Get John Houseman to go back with your. There could be a remake of 'The Paper Chase'. A cameo appearance by Raquel Welch dressed in proper caveman attire may also be in order. In a pinch, Valerie Perine would do nicely. I appreciated her full frontal acting abilities in Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.. mike |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
"Big Bill" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? However, let's say you could keep your magic private; digital, with a laptop and a solar recharging unit, would be *far* easier to use than film. Film just requires too much technology that wouldn't be availabe to you; as I said, even clean water will be a problem. A source of reliable, white light would be another problem. Bill Funk If the technology is not present to deal with film you can be assured you won't be using digital either |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
"Big Bill" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? There are reasons that technological breakthroughs come when they do; supporting technology must also be possible. What would you do with any film you exposed? Did you also backpack your chemicals? How would you *view* your pics? Did you also pack in your papers? How about a darkroom? With digital, how do you view the pics? Take your DSLR setup, Laptop and Solar Charger and a history book. Use them to convince leaders that you are from another world and that if any harm comes to you that you will destroy earth... You will need money and transportation to travel the world and document everything with your "Magic Window" or your species will take over the earth. Use the history book to predict events here-and-there, so that they know you're serious... Enjoy the world like a god! - Harrison. |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
"Ken Oaf" a écrit dans le message de ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? I'd take Paris Hilton. Is that the only way to take that idiot off the air? |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
In rec.photo.equipment.35mm skymuffins wrote:
"Big Bill" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? There are reasons that technological breakthroughs come when they do; supporting technology must also be possible. What would you do with any film you exposed? Did you also backpack your chemicals? How would you *view* your pics? Did you also pack in your papers? How about a darkroom? With digital, how do you view the pics? Take your DSLR setup, Laptop and Solar Charger and a history book. Use them to convince leaders that you are from another world and that if any harm comes to you that you will destroy earth... You will need money and transportation to travel the world and document everything with your "Magic Window" or your species will take over the earth. Use the history book to predict events here-and-there, so that they know you're serious... Enjoy the world like a god! And the leaders would believe you are from another world instead of just being a good oracle for precicely what reason? - Harrison. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
jean wrote: "Ken Oaf" a écrit dans le message de ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? I'd take Paris Hilton. Is that the only way to take that idiot off the air? That would test whether she could truly deal with a "simple life", indeed. Likely you would want to brain her with the camera after a week. Phil |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
Ken Oaf wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? I'd take Paris Hilton. Then I could ask for room service... then you'd go blind and find out it's just a cardboard fake no camera no paris , just alot of hilt on tounge from a storm truper puper |
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If you are trapped in ancient time, what would you take?
In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Big Bill wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Let's say, through the act of god, or whatever, that you've been transported back through time for a few thousand years. Would you've preferred that you have a digital camera? Or a film camera? There are reasons that technological breakthroughs come when they do; supporting technology must also be possible. What would you do with any film you exposed? Did you also backpack your chemicals? How would you *view* your pics? Did you also pack in your papers? How about a darkroom? With digital, how do you view the pics? Ever heard of self-developing film or Polaroid? Or were those not yet around when you crawled out of your cave? Even just getting *water* will be a problem; there's a reason everyone drank beer & wine: the water was really bad. oh yeah. Maybe you should stop mixing up history and history channel garbage. [snip - even more crap] Bill Funk Change "g" to "a" -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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