"Technician" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...
| > Finally, I got to borrow a "real" digital camera. My father loaned me
his,
| > basically so I could learn to use it and then show him how (after I unscramble his computer.)
| > So, in a frenzy of tinkering with it this morning, I took all new pictures of all 12 bikes in my
| > stable (including
my
| > wife's this time!)
| >
| > Yes, I know none of them are wonder rigs. The most expensive one in the bunch would take about
| > $1500-$2000 to duplicate all at once (the Cadex)
but
| > I get a large portion of my enjoyment in this sport building and
maintaining
| > my bikes, not just riding them. If it was **only** about the "RIDE!"
then
| > I'd likely own just a couple bikes (a MTB and a Roadie) but that's not
what
| > I'm about.
| >
|
| So simple, and yet Pete F. cannot comprehend it. I too enjoy working on bikes, and building them
| (now that i have had the chance). the pride in building a bike is similar to an artist creating a
| sculpture. in order to show of the fine job you have done, it is necessary to allow others to see
| it, either in person, or via photographs. A lot of hotrod makers will list the specs of their
| creation. why? so others can marvel over their selection of components, and then check the picture
| to see how they all fit together into one perfect machine.
|
| > I also included the first "group" shot of my bikes in years.
| >
| > intergalax.commybikes.htmlOpen ↗
| >
|
| He he, i did that too in my page address posting a while back.
|
| I guess, contrary to opinion, we are all human.
Yeah. The link in my .sig leads there, but certain folks in here might not have the mental aptitude
to figure that out 🙂
|
| May i suggest thumbnails rather than high-res pics scaled down with HTML? of course they still
| link to the full size. just loads a little quicker for us dial-up users.
|
| IrfanView is a good free program for scaling and cropping images if you need one.
Actually, those are thumbnails. They are 160x120 pixel versions of the shot which link to 640x480
full size shots. I'm on a 56k dial-up modem, so it doesn't load too slowly. The big "group shot"
takes the longest to load. I'm still experimenting with the software. I first tried using Microsoft
PictureIt to shrink down the pix, but the "averaging" subroutine only made the images fuzzy, like
they were out of focus. I then tried the software that came with the Fuji camera and it shrinks them
better, I just didn't want them any smaller, making them presentable on the main page without
necessarily linking to the big ones. Believe me, if it was loading the full size pix and shrinking
them with HTML, it'd take 10 minutes or so to load.
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