Many thanks, Chris. Picked up the typos. My wife agrees with you re
"documentary of" and "in" nature. I don't and think Webster's agrees with
me, but the usage cases available to me are few at the moment so I'll pass
on that one--changed it provisionally already.
On "due to" we both disagree with you, not in theory but actual usage
extant on the page. For instance, "due to the varied connect speeds" refers
to the noun "speeds." Even were it referring to "speeding," just for
example, that gerund form would fulfill the noun case you cite.
Re proper usage in general: there could well be a difference in usage
depending on where one speaks English. I'm not sure where your are, Chris,
but that could be it in this particular case. For instance, my English
happens to be American English, while yours might be England English or
Irish English or Australian English.
I know the language fairly well myself--used to earn my bread and cheese
writing it--and my wife has a PhD in that area, and for whatever reason we
agree it's okay stat. Besides, with English it's possible to make it up on
the fly--maybe not fair but certainly possible. (Dey do dat aw da time in
boyklin.)
However, there's the sin of redundancy and I was guilty of that, so I
changed the second and third usage. Sometimes I'll intentionally be
redundant (and other things as well) just for effect, but this time I
simply didn't catch my sloppy (over)usage. Appreciate your catch.
Muchas gracias for the aid. Editors are hard to come by, good ones more
rare still.
Glad you see my point re MAX 400 (and other consumer brands). Normally I
don't buy it (in fact that's only my second usage of that emulsion ever to
my recollection), but you see I ran out near Hyde Park that day and the
little shop I ducked into was very short of 400 negative stock for some
reason. As it turned out that was a sort of break as it led to this
article, not to mention my capture of Mark, the cabbie.
As for color on overcast days: that isn't the issue so much but rather lack
of contrast all around--there's little natural pop in scenes when the skies
are gray. That might be a good deal in some shots but all to often results
in drab pictures. Not always, though!
By the way, someone else today (15 Feb) used my link to Miranda's store and
bought yet another PS action. I wish extend my thanks, whoever you were.
(If this keeps up I might be able to afford a real bulletin board for the
site. <g>)
Tris
www.tristanjohn.com
At 06:22 AM 2/16/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>I did not think that I would, but I read to the bottom of the article
>Tris. You have persuaded me that:
>
>1. Max 400 is good enough for a decent photograph.
>2. That Fred Miranda's USM system works fine.
>3. That it is possible to take colourful photographs in overcast
>conditions.
>
>There are a few typing errors:
>
>a. The top 3 columns do not flow into each other; perhaps there was a
>hard return at the bottom of the first 2 columns.
>b. There are 2 inappropriate instances of 'of' : it should read
>'documentary in nature' (col 1)and 'one or two' (col 2).
>c. 'Loseless' (2/3rds down) should read 'lossless'.
>d. You use 'due to' incorrectly 3 times in the last paragraph. 'Due
>to' is an adjectival phrase which should describe a noun or noun
>clause, whereas you have used them to describe verb clauses. 'Owing to'
>or 'because of' would be correct. E.g. '... file size is an issue
>because of the varied connect speeds ...'
>
>Cheers
>
>Chris
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