Comments on: Delta Take Me Home — So I Can Go Away Again

By: Ray Swords

Ray Swords — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:55:30 +0000

I get to humor myself while I wait for the next patient. Working in a dark room getting visually impaired old people to fixate on a light and essentially working a machine that might as well be a video game.

It is great fun to hear of your travels…

By: Paulie [eatl/ga]

Paulie [eatl/ga] — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:51:53 +0000

Thank you. This comment thread has humored me while I wait for my luggage.

By: Ray Swords

Ray Swords — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:40:31 +0000

Many digital cameras take images without a sound. You can often turn on or off a sound the camera makes that tries to sound like the shutter of a film camera. the sound lets you know when it took the picture.

The digital SLRs still make the sound that the mirror makes as it flips up, but no shutter sound.

The image is captured as the chip in the camera activates the image.

We really don’t know how many things “work” now because the technology is so complex and proprietary. Often the information we receive is the spin the marketing department releases and may or may not be accurate.

i.e. the digital cameras still use the term shutter speed and there is no shutter.

We kinda hafta relearn what happens at any given “shutter Speed”.

It is all new…

By: Brenan

Brenan — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:19:21 +0000

Do today’s digitial cameras actually have shutters that “snap”? If not then I suppose that phrase will join the ranks of the culturally (generationally?) archaic — kind of like calling cd’s or digital downloads “records”.