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Still lots of folks shooting 8x10 and larger..... larger negatives used mostly to do sun exposed platinum prints.
5x7 still my personal favorite, I made a "pancake camera" (graphlex back that excepts 5x7 and roll film), wooden spacer mounted to a rodenstock 45 mm lens that just covers, with an impressive 130-140 degree angle of view @ 5x7. no adjustments or focus required, everything from 2 feet to infinity is tack sharp at f22.
just sold my 8x10 as it was a real pain to schlep around and the enlarger required to make prints is a monster!!!!! you can still get great glass for the larger formats but better get a second mortgage $$$$$$$$ (thought hifi was expensive?! )
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I usually hit "delete" on photos I think look a lot better than that! No accounting for taste....
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here are some of my guys:
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Josh:
it is pretty impresive..... I'm running a BBX also, makes a good combo!!
The best part of it is that my wife actually loves it!!!! ( I was smart and ripped 20 of her fav cd's lol ). She lives that I can pipemusic into the bedroom system from my iPhone!!! And , hold onto your hat..... She actually told me that the benchmark DAC sounded much better than the original CD I thought I was going to pass out!!!!! She hates my " monster stereo" !!!!!!
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UPDATE>>>>
OK ....recieved my toslink cable today and hooked up the benchmark DAC
I am VERY impressed!!!! The airport express, optical out to benchmark Dac, beats the crap out of my Ah! Njoeb Troeb 96 bit tube cd player($ 1200 and a bargain for what you get)....... the only thing I can compare it to is pulling cotton balls out of your ears! I could swear i'm getting another 1/2 octave of tight bass, but thats because its just cleaner and tighter....and much more punchy! the top end shimmers, notes hang longer, better separation and the music just sounds bigger.....
I'm going to be buying/ripping a whole lot more cd's these days!!! just when i get my vinyl about to where I want it!!!! darn it all! to bad the record companies wont release most of their recordings lossless for download!!!
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Thanks hifi Jim !!!
Josh.... No luck at radioshack... Got to go online from newegg or some other cable/ electronics company for the adapter or the optical cord.... And it is the 3.5 male mini that goes into the airport express.... BTW if you unplug your mini RCA from the airport and see a glowing red light in there it's n optical port .... I think they always made utvthat way
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The airport express has a optic port.... Which doubles as the mini RCA...
Apple sells the cable in the "airport express stereo conection kit". $40!!!
I ordered one from Newegg for$6... it's a male 3.5 optic to toslink or some call it s mini toslink cable..... I read several accounts of people useing this method with great sucsess.... I hope to have good results this way or I will just rearange and hardwire my laptop to the DAC ang move my media external hardrive onto the router to share files wirelessly.
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Thanks Josh ... I will check out airfoil....
As far as useing an external DAC I am under the belief that the optical port on the airport is " un-DACed". At least that us what I have read on numerous forums...... So I will go optical port out on the airport, bypassing it's internal DAC to the optical in of the benchmark
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Just thought that I would report on the great success I have had with my latest project....
Hardware..... Macbook pro with 3, 1 TB external drives for media, Apple Airport Extreme Router, 3 apple Airport Express base stations, iphone....
So basically since I had the macbook, drives and the iphone...... all I am out is $300 for the 3 airport express
Placed an Airport Express near each of my three systems : main listening room , HT, and bedroom
connected the airports to my systems via, mini rca to rca splitters ( still waiting on a toslink cable to hook my Benchmark DAC to the main rig) and installed the airport utility and let her go..... it located all three airports with no problem and I appropriately named them.....
Itunes recognized the three external systems in the dialog menu so you can choose any or all to send itunes to.
I installed the "remote" app for the iphone and joined the network
so as long as my computer is on and itunes enabled....... anywhere in my house, I just pullout my iphone, hit the remote app, choose which system to enable (system needs to be on) go to playlists (yep it shows all the playlists that you have in itunes) and choose whichever songs, shuffle, etc, just like itunes..... and you can control the volume
the sound quality so far is very good and I have not been able to hear any artifacts or noise even through the klipschorns........ not as good as my ah njoeb 96bit tube cd player, but thats going from the airport express internal dac, to rca cables. Tomorrow i should receive my Toslink cable to bypass the internal DAC and hook into my Benchmark DAC.... that should beat out the cd player by a nice margin.... I'll report after I have fooled with it some...
All in all, I am very very happy with this system.... I've only had one or two small glitches all weekend, ( going to happen in a congested area with tons of competing routers, wireless phones, electronics....blah blah) but in 20 hrs of listening maybe 3 ...2 second dropouts.....
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Must be something they got in the water in Okee!!!!!!
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thought Opie only listened to bluegrass?
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[G.P. Gumby voice]
MY BRAIN HURTS
"Anesthetic!!!!"
"No, the brain in my head!!!"
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[G.P. Gumby voice]
MY BRAIN HURTS
"Anesthetic!!!!"
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Honeymoon sex: you do it everywhere and any where at any time
5th anniversary sex : in the bedroom a couple times a week
10 anniversary: strictly hallway sex................. you pass each other in the hallway and she says "screw you!" ...... " yeah, you too!!!"
happy anniversary guys [
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Is that foam padding I see inside the bass bin there for room treatments or to make the wife happy?
Oh I thought those were Njordlsik shelving units from Ikea....to set the speakers on.........[
][][][][]Congrats DWI....thats one nice set-up.....droollllllll
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Well....they really came out great!!!! and I love the HT stand!!! Amazing what you can accomplish ....believe me folks....those babys were in pretty rough shape!!!
Once again ...outstanding job!
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Looks great!!! And if I'm not mistaken, all those cornwalls were in my house at one time or another........[
] [] [] Groomies wife is much cooler than mine!!!!!Which pair were dog ladies?
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Thats a real shame....great product!
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I had 30wpc running my Cornwall I's in a bigger room..... shook the walls and sounded great!!! Use the Nak and down the road if you see a good deal on a tube amp that you like and money burning a hole in your pocket......
congrats and enjoy!!!
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Thanks DWI....
My tastes run the Gamut...my wife thinks I'm kinda nuts how I can go from Toni Childs to Slipknot in the same session....
no wonder my therapist thinks I'm Bi-polar......[
][][][][]seem to always come back to great artists like Paul Simon, Yes, Steely Dan.....etc
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My wife is from Toronto....we buy stuff on both sides and ship all the time using credit cards Can to USA and vice versa ..... what gives???? sounds weird!
Sorry your having so much trouble....I may just have to ship you my MK 5.....
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Try KABUSA.... I got the same unit from them, plus they do a ton of upgrades, fair prices, etc..... they are more geared to the DJ, then the audiophile.
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Thats an amazing accomplishment!!! Got to see if I can order some while still available. What does your nephew do for them?