John Lennon Series

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:25 pm

I took some great photos last night, I'll have to send you one (I've fallen in love with the Nikon I just bought)the 355 really plays well, but I'm a little confused about the controls.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:55 am

US$1729. The prize was a new Nikon which I've claimed for myself.

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:48 am

Thanks John. Glad to see something developed with regard to the prize. It is fair as you were the only one who focused on the proper answer.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:48 am

What model Nikon John?
Thanks for the help though, it really is a beautiful instrument.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:29 am

Nothing a Nikon purist would appreciate, unfortunately. I just replaced my Coolpix 5700 that was stolen from me in St. Lucia. I almost bought the D100 instead but have too many extra extra goodies not to stick with the 5700 for awhile.

I've got a closet full of analog gear- there's an F4 in there somewhere, along with a Sinar P- but I've been a digital convert for years now and don't see myself going back. Virtually every catalog and web shot you've seen from us in the last 4 years has been a Nikon digital.

big_g · Post by **big_g** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:31 am

Fitting somehow, to find out the owner of Ric is an old Nikon freak, very cool John. Hey John, I've got an old Nikon F from 1965, still takes great pics, when I have used it. I've retired it since then.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:24 am

I converted during the trip to Egypt, I deployed with a D1h and as soon as I returned home I bought a D100, great camera so far. I do wish that they would have added an ISO 100 feature and firewire instead of USB though.
If you ever get time I would like to ask about your computer grahics degree, I understand you were one the first people around in the field, is that right?

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:05 pm

If I didn't already have all of the 5700's accessories (or if they'd been stolen too!), I certainly would have gotten the D100 this time. But it's been a real workhorse on the new . . . uh, well, something new . . . so I'll stick with it a bit longer. I also keep one of the first Coolpix 950's in my brief case for incidental use.

There were many folks in computer graphics way ahead of me, but I was the first graduate at the Univ. of Calif. in that field. Actually, it didn't exist as a major; I managed to get the Deans of Fine Art and Computer Science into the same room, pitched the idea, and they allowed me to essentially create my own plan and they gave me the budget for it. (Computer time was very expensive then.)

Technically it's a degree in computer science but issued by the art department. That's really backwards because almost all my time was spent in computer course work.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:50 pm

What software design packages were available at that time? I started out on a Amiga 500 in the mid 80's, it's amazing where it's gone in 20yrs.
What role do you see the internet playing in business in the next 10yrs?
By the way thanks for taking the time to answer the 1000 questions.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:58 pm

Software design packages? You're kidding, right? In 1970, this was all hard program coding, some Fortran and some assembler. Most work was batch processed. You'd write the program, punch it into cards, hand a shoebox-sized deck to the computer operator and hopefully in an hour you'd have a nice little printout or plotter drawing.

Later on I had access to an Imlac color CRT (about $175,000 each, as I recall) for video output. You'd display something, click a frame of super 8 film, and repeat to create a clip.

My wristwatch probably has a more powerful processor than the mainframe we used then.

There's several possible forks in the road as far as using the 'Net for business. Certainly it will replace catalogs for the most part and most customer interaction will be handled online. But quite a few things would have to change before the music store distribution system were replaced by a direct sales operation like Carvin's, which I'm not sold on yet. It does lend itself very nicely, however, to a custom guitar delivery system.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:10 pm

In regards to the graphics I was thinking it had to be hand-coded, but I didn't really know what year you were involved in it. I'm glad things have changed, Flash action scripting is enough of a pain at the present to deal with.

Again, thanks for your time.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 4:43 am

Here's the pics of the new 355JL:

www.deltamultimedia.net/355

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 5:01 am

Great pictures.... that is a fine-looking guitar!

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 5:31 am

Thanks, my brother is very happy with it. He was wary of the 355 until he played a 325 at GC yesterday. Another RIC convert.

oreca · Post by **oreca** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:52 pm

Wow I really love that first picture!
I like it.