The lenses were actually Zeiss lenses, Contax is a camera brand owned by Zeiss and licensed to Yashica, who made the Contax RTS 35mm cameras (and Zeiss lens designs under licence...)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/751672@N21/
has some nice photos made with the lens in question.
Hasselblad. Still gorgeous after all these years...
Just to point out that Collins *was* on Apollo 11 but didn't *land* on the moon; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did the blasty landy bit, whilst Mr Collins stayed aloft throughout.
Yes I do remember he went there. God bless them all and 'mankind's greatest adventure'.
Logitech = premium product, hence the relatively high price.
The Freecom Musicpal is still available, ethernet + wifi net radio plus streaming off a server, with external line outputs to plug into a conventional hifi:
www.freecom.com/objects/00011377.pdf
Shop around and you can still obtain one for less than £100. Last Christmas Eve, Pissy World sold theirs off for half price, so I got mine for £30. It works well, and is well made with a style not dissimilar to Logitech's products.
I phone friends and text them and that's about it. I like the bigger size of a clamshell, it's easier to hold and bigger keys make it easier for adult hands :-) It charges up well, and gives good clear calls.
And you say this new one has all this, plus a camera? And a radio? and it plays mp3s? and your reviewer says its just as stylish and well made as the old one?
Straightforward inexpensive phone that lots of people will enjoy, from the sound of it!
... for instance, the fact that every comment icon has to be enclosed in a little teensy weensy grey border.
Which means each icon is smaller, less legible etc because it has to have a border... AND a line of white space inside so you can see the border! Which detracts from the icon itself, especially if the icon is round, whereupon the border just GRATES.
Are you scared that the icons will be eaten by marauding text? Or that freed, they will go on the rampage and crawl up to the masthead, batting at passing planes?
And as previously remarked upon by others, why are you taking crapulous bit-map art from the nineties and then ANTI-ALIASING it? You should be BURNING this trash.
If you notice design, there is probably something wrong with it. So do us all a favour, go to www.kare.com, have a good look round at the GOOD stuff and then (metaphorically speaking) grow a pair and do something better. An icon is not a picture, it's a symbol, remember?
" The main problem with Microsoft? They have... no taste" (steve jobs in interview)
Steve Jobs, because he got Susan Kare to do the good stuff
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Zeiss, not Contax
The lenses were actually Zeiss lenses, Contax is a camera brand owned by Zeiss and licensed to Yashica, who made the Contax RTS 35mm cameras (and Zeiss lens designs under licence...)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/751672@N21/
has some nice photos made with the lens in question.
Hasselblad. Still gorgeous after all these years...
Memory fail?
Just to point out that Collins *was* on Apollo 11 but didn't *land* on the moon; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did the blasty landy bit, whilst Mr Collins stayed aloft throughout.
Yes I do remember he went there. God bless them all and 'mankind's greatest adventure'.
Cheaper alternatives still available
Logitech = premium product, hence the relatively high price.
The Freecom Musicpal is still available, ethernet + wifi net radio plus streaming off a server, with external line outputs to plug into a conventional hifi:
www.freecom.com/objects/00011377.pdf
Shop around and you can still obtain one for less than £100. Last Christmas Eve, Pissy World sold theirs off for half price, so I got mine for £30. It works well, and is well made with a style not dissimilar to Logitech's products.
Toys are so much nicer when they're cheap!
Not everyone needs a leading edge phone
Me for instance!
I have the KF300s predecessor with Orange, the F2250, for nearly 3 years now.
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_f2250-pictures-1336.php
I phone friends and text them and that's about it. I like the bigger size of a clamshell, it's easier to hold and bigger keys make it easier for adult hands :-) It charges up well, and gives good clear calls.
And you say this new one has all this, plus a camera? And a radio? and it plays mp3s? and your reviewer says its just as stylish and well made as the old one?
Straightforward inexpensive phone that lots of people will enjoy, from the sound of it!
It's the amateurish touches that grate
... for instance, the fact that every comment icon has to be enclosed in a little teensy weensy grey border.
Which means each icon is smaller, less legible etc because it has to have a border... AND a line of white space inside so you can see the border! Which detracts from the icon itself, especially if the icon is round, whereupon the border just GRATES.
Are you scared that the icons will be eaten by marauding text? Or that freed, they will go on the rampage and crawl up to the masthead, batting at passing planes?
And as previously remarked upon by others, why are you taking crapulous bit-map art from the nineties and then ANTI-ALIASING it? You should be BURNING this trash.
If you notice design, there is probably something wrong with it. So do us all a favour, go to www.kare.com, have a good look round at the GOOD stuff and then (metaphorically speaking) grow a pair and do something better. An icon is not a picture, it's a symbol, remember?
" The main problem with Microsoft? They have... no taste" (steve jobs in interview)
Steve Jobs, because he got Susan Kare to do the good stuff