Panda Nail Art

Taylor514ce · 09-04-2008, 05:20 PM

I apologize for the horrible blurriness... I couldn't figure out how to make my phone's camera FOCUS, but my waitress at the sushi restaurant had a panda painted on her thumbnail.

She must be an agent. I opened my mouth to scream, but the inrush of air ignited the wasabi fumes and all I could do was take a hurried photo and weep.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-04-2008, 05:23 PM

she is clearly an agent. it's a lucky thing you go out unacutelated.

(next time, press only halfway on the camera button and wait for it to focus, then take the picture. also check if you have a macro mode.)

Taylor514ce · 09-04-2008, 05:26 PM

Sorry, this camera doesn't work like that.

Wait - there's a next time!?

zelda_pinwheel · 09-04-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Sorry, this camera doesn't work like that.

Wait - there's a next time!?

i don't know, isn't there ? either you're a counter-agent gathering intelligence, or you aren't.

(about the camera : try it. you might be surprised.)

LazyScot · 09-04-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Sorry, this camera doesn't work like that.

Most phone cameras are essentially pinhole cameras. Hence no focus.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-04-2008, 05:32 PM

mine is significantly more sophisticated than that. believe it or not, i chose the phone for the camera. among other features it has (true) auto-focus, several iso levels (including my personal favorite, "auto"), continuous mode (a whole lot of photos one after the other so you don't miss the action) and macro mode. also a flash, and "night mode". and plenty of gimmicks i never use. it's brilliant. 5 megapixels.

maybe i should be the infiltrated agent. at least i could take a better photo.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-04-2008, 05:33 PM

(i actually love pinhole cameras though, and i have several. but i don't use them to take photos with, very often).

LazyScot · 09-04-2008, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

(i actually love pinhole cameras though, and i have several. but i don't use them to take photos with, very often).

Not, by any chance, these wonderful retro ones that Silverprint in London sells?

zelda_pinwheel · 09-04-2008, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

Not, by any chance, these wonderful retro ones that Silverprint in London sells?

oh god, please stop it. when i first discovered ebay i spent a fortune on old, mostly non-functioning (and you can't get film in those formats anymore even if they *are* functioning) cameras, just because they are beautiful objects and i love them. do not show me links like that. it's dangerous to my budget and my shelfspace.

pshrynk · 09-04-2008, 06:19 PM

Resistance is futile. You will be acutelated.

Wait, that was the last set of anthropomorphized avatarial pleonasms.

montsnmags · 09-05-2008, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

I apologize for the horrible blurriness...
...

Right...so...did anyone else, when they saw the topic heading, think that this "Panda Nail Art" involved a panda with a nail gun?

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

(i actually love pinhole cameras though, and i have several. but i don't use them to take photos with, very often).

For my Voigty R3A (who I call "Bender"*) I just bought a pinhole bodycap. I've yet to get the first shots developed though.

Cheers,
Marc
*I've a few cameras; they all have names.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-05-2008, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

For my Voigty R3A (who I call "Bender"*) I just bought a pinhole bodycap. I've yet to get the first shots developed though.

i would love to see them, when you do...

Quote:

Cheers,
Marc
*I've a few cameras; they all have names.

the contrary would have disappointed me, marc.

Sparrow · 09-05-2008, 11:49 AM

Ahhh, cute ickle panda

badgoodDeb · 09-05-2008, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Right...so...did anyone else, when they saw the topic heading, think that this "Panda Nail Art" involved a panda with a nail gun?

Well, no, but I thought the decorated nails would be ON a panda.

If you want nail-gun art, how about this paint-ball-gun art?

Yes, eBay is dangerous. I bought a broken Brownie camera there, just because it looked so cool and I *needed* a broken Brownie camera!

BookishDreamer · 09-05-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Well, no, but I thought the decorated nails would be ON a panda.

If you want nail-gun art, how about this paint-ball-gun art?

LOVE IT!!! I can't help wondering how much paint residue was floating through the air.

Dreamer

09-04-2008, 05:20 PM	#1
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09-04-2008, 05:23 PM	#2
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	she is clearly an agent. it's a lucky thing you go out unacutelated. (next time, press only halfway on the camera button and wait for it to focus, then take the picture. also check if you have a macro mode.)

09-04-2008, 05:26 PM	#3
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Sorry, this camera doesn't work like that. Wait - there's a next time!?

09-04-2008, 05:32 PM	#6
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	mine is significantly more sophisticated than that. believe it or not, i chose the phone for the camera. among other features it has (true) auto-focus, several iso levels (including my personal favorite, "auto"), continuous mode (a whole lot of photos one after the other so you don't miss the action) and macro mode. also a flash, and "night mode". and plenty of gimmicks i never use. it's brilliant. 5 megapixels. maybe i should be the infiltrated agent. at least i could take a better photo.

09-04-2008, 05:33 PM	#7
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	(i actually love pinhole cameras though, and i have several. but i don't use them to take photos with, very often).

09-04-2008, 06:19 PM	#10
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Resistance is futile. You will be acutelated. Wait, that was the last set of anthropomorphized avatarial pleonasms.

09-05-2008, 11:49 AM	#13
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	Ahhh, cute ickle panda