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sumi - Jun 17, 2005 8:30:43 am PDT #3431 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

I would like to be able to listen to my records AND my cds see.

I have now re-hooked up my old receiver so that I can listen to cds. And through cd direct sound is coming from both speakers.

Argh. This is just so complicated.


tommyrot - Jun 17, 2005 8:34:49 am PDT #3432 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

A reveiew of the new digital SLR from Nikon: [link]

$750 without a lens. $900 with. They say this is a "professional" camera.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 8:37:11 am PDT #3433 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was trying to read this review of the D50, but they used the word "evanescence" and I just can't stop rolling my eyes.

I may just be out of camera-review-reading practice.


Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 8:49:33 am PDT #3434 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm impressed with you digital-SLR-having (or -wanting) people. I'm just excited to be getting a new digital point-and-shoot with enough megapixels to make the prints look like, well, prints. Probably the Nikon 5600.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 8:50:42 am PDT #3435 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My lust just kicked up a gear when I froogled the D70 -- which can mean many things -- lots of crooks selling crap online, or the D50 will drop very low in price, or that I should just buy a D70 right now.

I should relax.


Sue - Jun 17, 2005 8:51:38 am PDT #3436 of 10003
hip deep in pie

I stand behind the rationalization that a better camera will making my mediocre photography skills better. Any great picture I have taken has been an accident, or a surprise to me.


Rob - Jun 17, 2005 8:57:36 am PDT #3437 of 10003

lots of crooks selling crap online

In the digital camera biz, it usually means this. I use B&H Photo and Video as a yardstick; if someone is underselling them by a large amount it's probably too good to be true.


amych - Jun 17, 2005 8:57:39 am PDT #3438 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I have a friend with a D70. It's extremely tasty.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 9:03:15 am PDT #3439 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

B&H's price for the D70 isn't much more than the D50. But I already have and use SD cards in three devices. I'm assuming CompactFlash rocks because of higher capacity -- how does it rate costwise with SD?


Jon B. - Jun 17, 2005 9:07:12 am PDT #3440 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Should I be able to hook my receiver up to the pre-amp?

If the tuner has RCA outs, then I suppose you can treat it as just another input to the pre-amp.

And could my sound problem actually be that my speaker wire is frelled? (The speaker that is getting sound was the left channel; I switched things around and now the speaker that is getting sound is the right channel.)

Switched things around how?