quote:Originally posted by mart: Well, I wonder if In Bruges could have been the perfect vehicle for her, but as I haven't seen it, I couldn't say for sure.
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She's Welsh, which is close enough, innit. They could then alter her voice in post-production or something. CGI her accent.
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I did. I went for the E-510 with a 14-42 and a 40-150 lenses - and it lives up to all my expectations. I got the FourThirds/OM lens adaptor too, which has been a lot of fun to play with. I'm glad I went for the 510 as the image stablization (in the body, not the lens) is amazing - it seems to work like magic. I'm also keen to pick up the 25mm pancake lens when funds allow.
I must get around to posting some pictures to the Internet at some point in the near future...
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Aye, it seems pretty well put together for a kit lens. Good and sharp all over and nice colour/contrast reproduction. I still can't quite get over how light everything is these days. Picking up an old OM lens really puts it in perspective.
I also need to get a decent memory card. I've got a cheapy 1GB xD which is fine, but obviously not big enough. With the flash off, I can fill it a few times over on one charge of the battery. Do you happen to know which cards are the best to go for? I need xD or CF - pretty quick for sequential shots and 4GB or more.
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Unless you're shooting critical stuff that you need speedy transfers for, I reckon any old thing would be fine. Definitaly get CF rather than xD, though.
I just use the Hama 1GB CF that mine came with.
My best shots so far have been with the OM 50mm/1.8, but it's an absolute bitch to focus without the split screen and in such a small viewfinder.
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All DSLR cameras are very, very good. That one looks terrible in silver, though.
One of the most wide-read photographers on the internet, Ken Rockwell lurves his D40, over all his other fancy pants cameras.
Can't help you with whether that's a good price. I mean, yes, it's a great price, but I've no idea whether you'll find it cheaper after Christmas.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: My best shots so far have been with the OM 50mm/1.8, but it's an absolute bitch to focus without the split screen and in such a small viewfinder.
On the 510, you can zoom the Live View in by 10x while you're focusing. Click the button that changes the Live View mode (bottom left) until you get a screen with a green rectangle. Move the rectangle around using the arrows and click the OK button to zoom in. Not sure if your 420 also has this. It allows you to focus much more accurately, although I do miss the OM-10's split circle thingy.
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Whilst I am a great lover of Nikon cameras I would advise strongly against the D40 for one reason - it only works with modern DX lenses whereas most of the others (D80, D70, D1xx D2xx etc) do accept lenses going back to the original F-mount from 1959 I believe (obvioulsy completely manual use) - apart from that its a cracking camera, but I would check out some of the other models first.
(I'm a bit out of date with Nikon's current lineup - I dread having no money then looking up things I want to buy - Like a D300....)
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Yeah, but for someone with no knowledge of cameras and lenses, is that really going to matter? I doubt it would make any difference at all for Cherry. Fair enough to mention it though, I suppose.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: I've just ordered it [In Bruges] from LoveFilm, so once I've watched it I'll know whether I enjoyed it or not.
Well, Thorn was right -- this is a great, funny, desperately sad film. Some bits of it are absurd, but they only grate because the rest of it is so human. The pairing of Colin Farrel and Brendan Gleeson and the writing for their characters, and all the other parts, is wonderful. Farrel's nervy, jangling, uptight body language seems so in tune with what he's just been through, and Gleeson is even better. The pregnant hotel owner was also fantastic. And the dwarf. And Yuri. Everyone.
Thanks Thorn. Did you watch the deleted scenes? I thought they helped quite a bit with some of the stuff that is only hinted at in the film proper.
In other news, I went to an audition at a local churchy amdram group on Monday, and have got a part in a play. We're putting on a show! I play an old Yorkshire git called, appropriately, Joe Gittings, who is always trying to get his neighbour to sneak up the pub with him for a few pints.
Rehearsals start on Monday. I really enjoyed the read-through at the audition, but I'm quite nervous about it now.
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Really glad you enjoyed it. I know what you mean abotu some of the more absurd moments feeling like an intrusion. But yeah, the main characters are so wonderfully written and acted that the movie easily withstands a few knocks. I was happy to see that it got a couple of nominations at the Golden Globes, given that the movie seems to have more or less disappeared. I've been raving about it to everyone for weeks now. Haven't run into anyone who didn't like it, but once I do, they're getting a punch in the fucking head, bottle or not.
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You know at the end when Fiennes does what he does? He says "You've got to stick to your principles". Do you think he meant that he knew that the, er, thing (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here) next to Farrell wasn't real, or that he thought it was real and that's why he does what he does?
My assumption was that he thought that it was real, and he was just cutting Farrell off when he says "No, Harry, it's not-...", but I did wonder.
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The one that you assumed to be the case. That he thought the thing was real and did the thing that he did because that was what he said he would do if the thing happened assuming that the thing was what he mistook it to be rather than what it actually was.
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