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William Hooper
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Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-16-2004 06:33 AM

quote: Ken Lackner said:
William, I'm not sure if that was English, but I honestly didn't understand a word of what you were trying to say.

That is entirely the fault of Gordon McLeod. I used to use perfectly standard sentence structure & organization until I began to read Gordon's posts.

At first it was difficult, then it became apparent that each of Gordon's post was custom-built for the application: a faster, more efficient, highly featured unit just for that application.

You get to where you realize that you don't read one of Gordon's posts, you just look at it, & BZZZT all the information is in your head, faster & with more collateral detail than a post with 3 times as many words conventionally constructed.

I used to not like poetry at all. Why can't they just write it out in a sentence? But a co-worker's daughter came in & needed help to write a paper on a poem, & I suddenly realized looking at it that poetry is actually a more compact, densely informative device - like Gordon constructs his posts. I since then: a) realized that sentence structure is all just a organizational imposition which sometimes is not as efficient b) tried to emulate Gordon's work. Unfortunately, as is often the case, learning & application is sometimes is far inferior to aptitude & artistry. Gordon's posts are brilliant, brief, & full of information. Trying to emulate, I realize I'm not as good.

Gordon McLeod's work has gone unappreciated too long, & I would like to present this collection:

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quote:

The LED turning on and off
is not a function of the soundhead
but the way the engineer installed it

quote:

Horizontal lamps burn
quiet
happily
when mounted vertically
the reverse isn't true
and they require very high magnetic stabalization
if done so

quote:

Mark said" oe,
Please just scram!
You're not allowed
anywhere
near
70mm film
ya know.

Guttag made 14 perfect
(mighta been 16)
changovers
when I saw Gettysburg at the Uptown in 70mm!

Lets see you do that one..... Whoops "

I would have assumed
that 16 chnageovers
in a row
perfectly done
are the norm

quote:

Often it is caused by the ilm
riding
up on the flange
of a roller
and the film then folds
slightly
against the spinning roller
leaving the marks
all it takes
is one roller misthreaded
once
for it to happen

quote:

The push to stadium seated theatres
effectively raised the hight of the room
for a given number of seats
leading to the push
for vertical moving masking
It isn't ideal
but is a fact of life
out there
The biggest problem
is light loss
The widescreen flat format
is the least light efficient to start with
compared to scope
and making it the larger of the images
is a tradeoff

quote:

Speed control is fairly easy nowdays
thanks to the use of frequency drive invertor motor controllers
Bodine Reliance/AllenBradley and many others
make them they work very well
some even have feedback
to do positional lock between two machines

quote:

I sometimes wonder
how people
in this industry
miss checking with what the standard is
for many things
like the number of frames per foot
(especially since it is in film note for reel people in the manual section of this site)

There seems to be a lot of topics
as of late
that a little research
would go a long way to solving
and other usefull skills learned
along the way