POTN Aussie Club #8 - Einsteins won't make you smart

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10150608
Hey, is this grey-on-black for everyone else, or just me?

http://creativephotowo​rkshops.com.au/worksho​ps/winter-series/83

Same here.

AdamC wrote in post #10151054
Looks quite readable to me. Appears light grey on dark grey to me, at work on my uncalibrated monitor.

same here.

Site seems quite clean to me.

Light grey on dark grey here too

I find light grey text on dark grey a lot easier on my eyes personally

BOSS wrote in post #10143049
Thanks,guess I should fill in the rest of the story:

2001 initial diagnosis put on hormone treatment and in a letter from the specialist to my GP I was given two years to live. I said don't think so I've got retirement and a lot of living to do.

2003 retired age 55

2008 pain in upper back that required hospital and the heavy duty painkillers found to be tumor compressing spinal cord at the T4-5 veterbrae rushed to Royal Brisbane Hospital for emergency radiation therapy to shrink tumor. Was paraplegic for a month until the radiation treatment started to shrink the tumor.Taken off hormone treatment as it had become refractory.
This time was given only months to live. My reply don't think so.
Back to Gympie Hospital for rehab and was told might not walk again. My reply watch me.

2009 xmas, tumor on L1 veterbrae shrunk with radiation therapy.

2010 still here and fighting hard,now with chemo.

During all of this I tried the alternative remedies but found they didn't do much for me.
All the time I have maintained as positive an outlook as you can and that with good Doctors I believe has got me this far and will see me through to 2030 at the least.

I'm walking but it may never be 100% what it used to be,got the walking stick.

Thanks for the insight John.

You wouldn't believe it but just as we're talking about this and I mentioned that close family friend... he actually lost his 20 year plus battle with cancer and passed away on sunday (ie. the next morning after we're chatting about all this). Feels like some sort of bizarre premonition.

But anyway he had a very rare and fast spreading form of the disease - and as you say it just goes to show how will power and the desire to live can have such a positive and prolonged effect.

Wish you the best of luck with your situation ..keep snapping away those frames!

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10151525
Site seems quite clean to me.

Until you open a drop-down menu to find a blast of vicious red.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #10152744
Until you open a drop-down menu to find a blast of vicious red.

Still works for me Dave.

Anyone heard from Ed or did he get kidnapped at RAFW? Rosemount Australia Fashion Week

coalcliff wrote in post #10152837
Anyone heard from Ed or did he get kidnapped at RAFW? Rosemount Australia Fashion Week

Probably on recovery.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #10152744
Until you open a drop-down menu to find a blast of vicious red.

Yeah, I don't like the site at all. The grey-on-grey is overly clever and underly-readable, and I don't like the colour scheme.

Guy is good at what he does, though, but that is clearly not site design

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10151525
Site seems quite clean to me.

smythie wrote in post #10151541
Light grey on dark grey here too

I find light grey text on dark grey a lot easier on my eyes personally

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10152828
Still works for me Dave.

Works OK for me.

Again thanks to all for the positive wishes.

@Damo,hmm if you can hear my heartbeat I best get my blood pressure checked

@Rai,condolences on the loss of your family friend.

John - sounds like you've been through quite an ordeal. All the best with managing your health in the future.

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10152839
Probably on recovery.

I think so too. Must have gotten smashed.

So I was playing around with my gear yesterday and got curious about numbering on the focus scale window of my 20/2.8 - essentially various aperture settings on either side of the focus distance marker. I checked my other lenses and found them on the 50/1.4 as well. Turns out they are for giving you a guide to the DOF at the various aperture settings. For those not already familiar with these markings, they are explained here.

Incidentally on the same page it mentions IR focus offset marks which got me thinking about the 50/1.4 which has the mark but is one of the worst lenses for IR use... why bother putting it on there?