Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "1970's Camera Tech: How they showed you what settings to use" video.

  1. 4:45 “Not a questionable astronomical unit” ... so, not less than 12 parsecs, then?
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  2. “Pulling out all the stops” is when you want maximum sound from an organ.
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  3. ... Adobe sits quietly, twiddling thumbs and making “ka-ching” noises ...
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  4. That meaning is from pipe-organ technology, from a few centuries before photography. #LanguageGeek #PunSpoilSport
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  5. That jumped-up new-fangled vinyl never sounded as good as authentic shellac.
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  6. 9:20 Interesting coincidence that cranking up the gain of a digital sensor increases the noise, which also manifests as a form of grain. Or is it?
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  7. 5:12 Those f-numbers are the denominator in a fraction of the lens focal length (which is what the “f” stands for). So higher denominators means the fraction is actually smaller: e.g. f/2.8 is less than f/1.4.
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  8. 6:21 See, those numbers are denominators too, yet everybody understands that the larger denominators actually represent smaller numbers, unlike with f-stops.
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