More for the Megapixel Debate.

Alfred Molon:
Well, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_...t-hand_traffic

the French switched from left to right already in 1792 - quite a while
ago...

But the Swedes switched in living memory. I recall having seen TV news;
at the appointed time (noon?) all drivers simply went to the other side
of the road. A Swedish friend told me that it wasn't very traumatic;
Swedes are pretty well traveled and very many of them had experience
driving on the right.

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On Sep 30, 2017, Davoud wrote
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Alfred Molon:
Well, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_...t-hand_traffic

the French switched from left to right already in 1792 - quite a while
ago...

But the Swedes switched in living memory. I recall having seen TV news;
at the appointed time (noon?) all drivers simply went to the other side
of the road. A Swedish friend told me that it wasn't very traumatic;
Swedes are pretty well traveled and very many of them had experience
driving on the right.

Sweden might not have been very traumatic with their switch, but Argentina
had a transition from left to right which came as a surprise for the public.

I visited Buenos Aires in 1963 on a trip with my parents, and we were regaled
with tales of the 1945 switch from left to right, which came from legislative
decree, and immediate, overnight implementation. The switch came days after a
coup, and establishment of a military dictatorship before Peron took over in
1947. In 1963 it was still a tender spot in Argentinean memory. Many longed
for the days when they drove on the left.

Apparently that switch in 1945 resulted in multiple daily accidents, and
daily deaths. It took them years to get the street signage changed, and some
of the old signage was still in place in 1963. The day of the switch is
recognised today as “Road Safety Day� in Argentina.

They had some other odd rules of the road which I won’t get into here.

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On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:30:03 +0200, android wrote:

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PeterN wrote:

On 9/29/2017 11:51 AM, nospam wrote:

that's the only thing i cropped, because it's wrong.


So therefore if anyone thinks something you said is wrong, it's OK to
crop it out.

Netiquette encourages you to snip everything but that that you intend to
reply to.

It also encorages you to mark the fact that you have snipped.

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On 9/30/2017 5:08 AM, Noons wrote:
On 29/09/2017 3:33 @wiz, gray_wolf wrote:
I did some killer shots with my Nikon D80 and a couple of Photogenic strobes
especially portrait stuff. Even my buddy with his S5000+ Canon was impressed
with a few of my shots. I picked up a D90 along the way. Loved the way it
handled especially working in manual mode. The I got a D3400 with the two kit
lens for $499. And it is definitely sharp but I hate the interface. It's not
much fun shooting in in the manual mode. The D80 has a certain charm for sure.

I use mine mostly in CW metering.

The D80 has a quaint matrix meter that gives meter "priority" to the area
covered by the AF sensor!Â* Good for certain kinds of shots, but lethal for just
about everything else.

I never tried CW metering IIRC. Before the D80 I had an N90s (film). The
exposure accuracy
in matrix mode was bullet proof. The few problems I had was because I tried to
help it. :-)
I was really disappointed in the D80's exposure system. I often used my,
Minolta, incident reading, hand held meter.


Fortunately a simple switch to good old CW metering and the problem goes away.

And the colours on the D80 are just so saturated!Â* Don't know if it is something
in the way it handles RAW, but same shots same conditions, with my D200 don't
come out with anywhere near as much colour bang!

Only thing that still drives me mad with it is its tendency to lock the shutter
when the AF is not finding perfect focus.Â* Can be very annoying. Although I've
learned to lock the focus where I want and reframe/shoot.

Quaint camera.Â* I reuse it often, if nothing else just to keep it working!

android:
Netiquette encourages you to snip everything but that that you intend to
reply to.

Eric Stevens:
It also encorages you to mark the fact that you have snipped.

--- snip ---

Isn't that why the gods gave us the ellipsis?

There are several people in this newsgroup who are quite good at
slectively deleting text...

But I'm not one of them, so never mind.

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In article ,
Alfred Molon wrote:

In article , android
says...
Would you believe that both France and Sweden once drove on the left
side of the road.

Well, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_...t-hand_traffic

the French switched from left to right already in 1792 - quite a while
ago...

Yes, and they just had it the Germans riding on the wrong side of the
road. If you can't beat them...
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In article , Davoud
wrote:

Alfred Molon:
Well, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_...t-hand_traffic

the French switched from left to right already in 1792 - quite a while
ago...

But the Swedes switched in living memory. I recall having seen TV news;
at the appointed time (noon?) all drivers simply went to the other side
of the road. A Swedish friend told me that it wasn't very traumatic;
Swedes are pretty well traveled and very many of them had experience
driving on the right.

Correct... No problems for us, but some Norwegians are said to crossed
over to the left side from old habits...
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In article ,
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:30:03 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
PeterN wrote:

On 9/29/2017 11:51 AM, nospam wrote:

that's the only thing i cropped, because it's wrong.


So therefore if anyone thinks something you said is wrong, it's OK to
crop it out.

Netiquette encourages you to snip everything but that that you intend to
reply to.

It also encorages you to mark the fact that you have snipped.

--- snip ---

There are several people in this newsgroup who are quite good at
slectively deleting text so as to either twist or distort arguments
they are finding difficult.

I usually use --- or [---] if I snip inside an article or conversation
but not at the end.
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:43:37 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:30:03 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
PeterN wrote:

On 9/29/2017 11:51 AM, nospam wrote:

that's the only thing i cropped, because it's wrong.


So therefore if anyone thinks something you said is wrong, it's OK to
crop it out.

Netiquette encourages you to snip everything but that that you intend to
reply to.

It also encorages you to mark the fact that you have snipped.

--- snip ---

There are several people in this newsgroup who are quite good at
slectively deleting text so as to either twist or distort arguments
they are finding difficult.

I usually use --- or [---] if I snip inside an article or conversation
but not at the end.

You are rare. I do it but I must admit that these days I do not do it
always when I should.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article ,
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:43:37 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:30:03 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
PeterN wrote:

On 9/29/2017 11:51 AM, nospam wrote:

that's the only thing i cropped, because it's wrong.


So therefore if anyone thinks something you said is wrong, it's OK to
crop it out.

Netiquette encourages you to snip everything but that that you intend to
reply to.

It also encorages you to mark the fact that you have snipped.

--- snip ---

There are several people in this newsgroup who are quite good at
slectively deleting text so as to either twist or distort arguments
they are finding difficult.

I usually use --- or [---] if I snip inside an article or conversation
but not at the end.

You are rare. I do it but I must admit that these days I do not do it
always when I should.

Realizing the problem is the first step... :-))
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