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does anyone with their finger on the pulse of SE brewery taps know the story of london beer factory in west norwood and if they were assimilated into the gipsy hill brewery empire? i never went to the west norwood tap and google gives you the address of the gipsy hill brewery.
or is that just some crafty SEO thing?

presume you meant ‘to warrant it’
yes, because i’m not pausing before a ‘big move’ and having to think if i should save or close other software before doing it, or go make a cup of tea.

i have moved between capture1/helicon focus/PS with them all open, something i would not have contemplated before especially with only 16gb ram, i would have liked to have 128 but 64 is a big improvement and makes a huge difference to PS as it will use as much as it can.

i haven’t done any of my time lapse’s yet but the MacBook struggled with saving those and i would have to purge all cache’s and histories before i could do that, it also took nearly an hour to process the sequence tiffs in C1.

but it’s the same with every upgrade, the computer gets better, the files get bigger, the computer slows down, you buy a new faster computer...

Mac studio update:
so there is lots of online angst about noise. there is a background fan noise and a very feint power supply whine but only when saving a big file. the computer is about 18in from my head, if it bothered me that much i would move it but compared to iMac’s, MacBooks under load and old G5 towers it’s quiet. very cool to touch and the air out the back is cold, i don’t think i have managed to get the fans up to speed despite processing a lot of files and doing some heavy lifting processor wise.

issues: some filters in photoshop like smart sharpen are not fast, it’s something to do with open CL which is evidently redundant now but still used for a few things. this is not a computer issue but software.
sometimes a brush lag with very long strokes in PS where it has to catch up, not bad enough to annoy as for most of what i do it’s not noticeable but be nice if it was snappy/real time.

there is an issue with using external USB dacs. i have Tidal/audio quest dragonfly red and it has background clicking unless you use one of the thunderbolt ports on the rear (with a USB adapter)
i wonder if this has any impact on music/audio people who use USB interfaces?
no idea if thats hardware or software causing that.

apart from that it’s all good and smart sharpen aside it’s fast, still get a beachball but thats for a second or 2 when doing saves or transforms or zooming in/out on big files (12000x10000 pixels 16bit 5-10GB)

Have you tried using google? that way you can look at their instagram and see how active they have been, see if you can pay for something on the website and ‘collect in store’ plus you can see the opening hours and what days they are closed and unlikely to answer the phone.
you could also look at bike biz and see if they have indeed ceased trading and/or gone into liquidation.

is that a little bottle of Buckie on the seat?

that will do the job, will wait until they have the 20mm grey in stock i want.

is there a strap like a Eulit perlon but thicker? either 1 or 2 piece.
i don’t like leather in the summer as it gets a bit sweaty but the Eulit is quite thin and the clasp a bit dainty.
not interested in a nato and all the hardware that comes with it.

edit: looks like Eulit now do a thicker version called ‘Atlantic’

i only use the higher res A7’s and have used A7r (now in Amey’s camera museum) a7RII (spare)and A7RIV which is my main camera.

you can break it down by resolution

12.2 mp usually filming biased/high iso/low noise
24-36mp probably where you should look if hi res isn’t needed.
42-61mp high resolution biased

so A7II, A7III, A7IV, A7C or maybe A7RII might be worth looking at, i have no idea of prices though.

if 12mp is enough then A7s/A7sII

I think he worked on the GMT (or rather UTC) module on my IWC?
incredible value when you consider what some brands are charging for a swiss private label manufacturer made watch.

an LFGSS member will soon be opening a cafe near the middle of that map.

i have been in a lot of location houses, what always amazed me was that the owners could be bothered with the hassle of having a crew taking over the house for a day all for £600-£1200 when the house is 1-4million.
the houses were nearly always ‘posh’ and expensively furnished/fitted out.

i assumed it was so they can drop “we had Idris Elba in the other day” at their next dinner party.

No. as that’s not going to allow you to tweak the contrast by working in the colour or white’s/black’s/mids. a colour fill is likely to be flat and then if you curve it you have to remember to use luminosity mode as normal shifts the saturation and colour. selective colour allows finer control and HSB allows global colour shifts and brightness/saturation if needed. (could have got there without this layer)

there are plenty of ways to crack a nut though, i’m sure there are other ways than what i did that have the same or similar control.

https://app.box.com/s/ayv97b5z4vpwlcjws2­hl6wnmtvbb9zs5

just take the settings and apply to your master file, may be slightly off due to dragging it from a web page and sometimes that will shift colours but open the adjustment layers and see what i have done and do some tweaks.

2 adjustment layers i can send you the psd

it wouldd take me longer to write out how to do than actually do it.
send it to me and i’ll have a look and leave the adjustment layers on it so you cans how it’s done

Moser.

i don’t care how innovative those Horage watches are because they look like they are £300 at Argos.
for that money and something non mainstream that actually looks like a decent watch then Habring would get my money.

the walls are either brick/blockwork or stud/plasterboard.
they might reveal the ceiling board if they remodel the bathroom but knocking down walls isn’t really going to reveal anything and a tradesman would know if anything untoward gets revealed.
theres no asbestos reported in the communal area report apart from an encapsulated door of a store room and a ceiling panel in a bin store. it’s the not so dangerous type with the recommendation of ‘do not disturb’ and ‘monitor for deterioration’. Its better to just leave it in place than remove it.

theres an asbestos chrysotile sheet lining the ceiling in a void between kitchen and bathroom on the flat we still haven’t completed on and i know we will be exposing this and a bit of studwork will need to be fixed to it.
i just expect the builder to mask up and clean up when fixing the studwork then it will never be seen again until somebody else decides to redo the bathroom.
not worth making it an issue, especially as it’s not visible or testable as it’s not yet exposed. i only know it’s there because there was a hole in the wall of the bathroom in another flat i viewed and i poked my phone in to take a pic.

theres also a 50’s metal door to a drying cupboard which likely has it inside, i’ll unscrew the door from the hinges and leave it at the back of the garage, problem solved and nobody gets lung disease.

i wouldn’t automatically expect money off for things like a boiler or consumer unit. rotten purlins? bay window coming away from the wall? underpinning? well thats a different storey.

personally as a seller i wouldn’t entertain somebody asking for money off on something that is obvious to a buyer and not ££££’s to fix, and would tell them to jog on especially if there was lots of interest in the property.

"what, really?
that’s disappointing for sure.”

I don’t think so. the speakers in a mac mini/mac pro/mac studio are not really expected to be like a laptop. iMac or apple studio display (with it’s six speaker spatial audio)
it’s just there for a bing/bong/chime.

Well it’s a contender then on size and price.

Zoom isn’t a dealbreaker, i can use the laptop for that as i don’t have to do them that often.
there is a Beoplay A2 for about £100 which looks o.k. so will investigate that. the A1 is £220 which is a bit strong. especially as i’m not after battery or portability.

I want a small speaker/speakers for my mac studio but mainly just to listen to podcasts/streamed radio and the audio from youtube ‘how to’ videos.
i don’t want critical music listening (have a hi-fi and headphones/dac for that) it would be great if it had a mic so you could do zoom calls but not essential.
at the moment i have an old sonos which doesn’t do airplay so i used to update the podcasts feed on the mac and then use the sonos phone app to listen but as thats fiddly i just used the app on the laptop and listened on that but the MacBook audio was very good considering it’s size but the mac studio is not as good as it’s only meant for notification sounds/bongs/chimes/pings.

i don’t want a black and shiny monitor speaker that looks like it featured in the Tandy catalog but some unobtrusive whit/grey/black fabric covered thing.

i have a 15% off sonos upgrade so could get a new OneSLbut no idea how this will integrate/work as a computer speaker or a refurbed older Bose soundlink revolve?

there is the apple HomePod mini but evidently there is lag which is crap for watching video.

that’s insane, especially as now (with omicron) it’s vaccination that’s key especially in older age groups and the focus should be on that.
If there is no base of previous infections then it’s either stay locked down forever or vaccinate/boost and nearly everyone will get it but with relatively low death rates*
NZ kept it out and vaccinated nearly everyone, they have some of the highest case rates ever as no background immunity from infection but low deaths but they opened up knowing it was pointless trying to contain it forever.
HK had similar infection levels but too many deaths due to old people not getting vaccinated.

if they can force people to stay at home then they can compulsory vaccinate old people.

i hope for your sake they sort this out soon.

*in a highly vaccinated population with therapeutic treatment available the fatality rate for covid has now reached parity or is just below that of influenza having been 22x higher at the beginning of the pandemic.