I find that problem with alot of forecasts. I often hear things like "Dry in some parts, but wet in others". What use is that?

johnfás wrote:

I find that problem with alot of forecasts. I often hear things like "Dry in some parts, but wet in others". What use is that?

Jeremy Paxman once had to do weather forecasts on Newsnight and he declared, "it will be wet in the places in which it will be wet, dry in the places that are dry". Priceless!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

johnfás wrote:

I find that problem with alot of forecasts. I often hear things like "Dry in some parts, but wet in others". What use is that?

Jeremy Paxman once had to do weather forecasts on Newsnight and he declared, "it will be wet in the places in which it will be wet, dry in the places that are dry". Priceless!

Ahhhh.....but was he right ?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

johnfás wrote:

I find that problem with alot of forecasts. I often hear things like "Dry in some parts, but wet in others". What use is that?

Jeremy Paxman once had to do weather forecasts on Newsnight and he declared, "it will be wet in the places in which it will be wet, dry in the places that are dry". Priceless!

Ahhhh.....but was he right ?

Paxman's always right!

I saw that - it was fantastic - I will put it up here now in a moment. He did it because he was so pi##ed off that he was having to do the weather on Newsnight.

johnfás wrote:

Thanks for putting it up. I'd do it only I'm not bothered to look it up on YouTube.

It's Paxman Gold!

johnfás wrote:

I saw that - it was fantastic - I will put it up here now in a moment. He did it because he was so pi##ed off that he was having to do the weather on Newsnight.

"What do you expect...it's April!" -

Used to work with Paxman. A very decent guy and at his best an ace interviewer. Also, it turns out, a crap weatherman

My grandfather wrote him a letter following one of those 'Who do you think you are' type programmes a couple of years ago and got a very nice, personal and thoughtful response from him.

cactus flower wrote:

Used to work with Paxman. A very decent guy and at his best an ace interviewer. Also, it turns out, a crap weatherman

An bhfuil tú in ndáiríre? Táim in éad leat!

Cool. Never saw that before.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Used to work with Paxman. A very decent guy and at his best an ace interviewer. Also, it turns out, a crap weatherman

An bhfuil tú in ndáiríre? Táim in éad leat!

translation, anyone?

cactus flower wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Used to work with Paxman. A very decent guy and at his best an ace interviewer. Also, it turns out, a crap weatherman

An bhfuil tú in ndáiríre? Táim in éad leat!

translation, anyone?

Sorry, what I said was, are you serious? I'm jealous of you!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Used to work with Paxman. A very decent guy and at his best an ace interviewer. Also, it turns out, a crap weatherman

An bhfuil tú in ndáiríre? Táim in éad leat!

translation, anyone?

Sorry, what I said was, are you serious? I'm jealous of you!

Right, too.

Nice video and slideshow on autumn colours courtesy of Aunty Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7681729.stm

johnfás wrote:

Nice video and slideshow on autumn colours courtesy of Aunty Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7681729.stm

Wow, that's some colours. How many megapixels/aperture size do you need for that ?

I think people can get a bit het up about megapixels. Anything above 3 megapixels on digital should see you taking lovely photographs unless you are going to blow them up to poster size.

johnfás wrote:

I think people can get a bit het up about megapixels. Anything above 3 megapixels on digital should see you taking lovely photographs unless you are going to blow them up to poster size.

What about apertures - do digital cameras have these things do you know, is it important and what does it mean. If you happen to know.

The aperture is the hole through which the light comes into the camera. If you have it open wider more like will come into your photograph. If used correctly this can increase the vividity of colour in your shot. If it is too far open and the exposure is too long it will result in a white photograph!

Aperture is particularly important if you are photographing something like stained glass as you open wide your aperture within the darkened church on a long exposure and just allow the colour to rush in.

Any modern digital slr camera by its very nature will have control over the aperture as it uses a traditional lens. Alot of the most recent point and shoot digital camera do have options for adjusting the aperture.

johnfás wrote:

The aperture is the hole through which the light comes into the camera. If you have it open wider more like will come into your photograph. If used correctly this can increase the vividity of colour in your shot. If it is too far open and the exposure is too long it will result in a white photograph!

Aperture is particularly important if you are photographing something like stained glass as you open wide your aperture within the darkened church on a long exposure and just allow the colour to rush in.

Any modern digital slr camera by its very nature will have control over the aperture as it uses a traditional lens. Alot of the most recent point and shoot digital camera do have options for adjusting the aperture.

Ok that helps. So if I want to get a half-decent one then I look for aperture control. Do you use it much casually johnfas ? And can you have more or less control over the aperture i.e. a super duper camera will let you open it as wide as a plate and another cheapo camera for €20 only half a milimeter ?

That's all I want to know for now, I promise

I take quite a few photographs of art (paintings generally) so I do use it when doing that. If I have the camera out with me and I have lots of time on my hands I will generally adjust the aperture to get the best shot - if I spend a day in the country essentially. If I am just taking a few snaps, I do what alot of people presumably do - just stick it in auto.

A super duper lens will let you open it really really wide. I have a decent enough lens on an slr so I can open it fairly wide (as wide as I would need). I'm unsure as to the aperture settings on point and shoot cameras as my one doesn't have it, I have just heard that it now exists on them!

The aperture setting on an slr can also be used for dramatic effect in terms of depth of field. A very wide aperture results in a narrow depth of field i.e. foreground and background out of focus with object of photo in clear focus.

This is a wide aperture photo



It draws the eye straight to the object naturally because it is in focus....

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

The aperture setting on an slr can also be used for dramatic effect in terms of depth of field. A very wide aperture results in a narrow depth of field i.e. foreground and background out of focus with object of photo in clear focus.

This is a wide aperture photo



It draws the eye straight to the object naturally because it is in focus....

Ah - the aperture does the focusing thing or does it - I thought it was the distance between the .. lens and the .. someotherthing.

There's now over a gigawatt - 1000 MW - of installed capacity in Ireland. Today is one of those days that make the average for the overall year (the capacity factor) closer to 40% than 30% of the installed figure. So for every 1000 MW we install the wind delivers 400 MW max per year... The storm came out of nowhere after a bright and beautiful (but cold with some light showers but dry) day yesterday.