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In Reply to: RE: Building a room for my Magnepans posted by neolith on February 09, 2015 at 06:52:54
IMO 'mancave' is an oxymoron. A listening room should be right up there on the main floor, along with all its other rooms. What kinda 'man' has to do his listening in a 'cave'?
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Upstairs, (taken with a cheap oriental wide angle lens and iPad).
So one has to 'toe the mark' to stay married? That's both demeaning and humiliating. Over 20 years ago when we built the house I'm still occupying, I was putting together an office basement to keep away from upstairs conversations and distractions. One of the construction crew, who was still around tidying up loose ends and watching, asked what was I doing. Upon replying, he asked me whether or not my wife would allow me upstairs.
Looks like the photo was taken with one of those 'thru door' security peep-sites.
terrific looking space, though.
Too much is never enough
I indicated how I took that picture, but suppose you missed it. No problem though, there's a kit available from Amazon having a set wide angle lenses for use with various Apple devices including a iPad (which is in fact what I used):
http://www.amazon.com/Angle-Macro-iPhone-connected-together/dp/B005GTR1CA
(typing B005GTR1CA into any Amazon search bar should bring it up.)
It's a silly set of crappy lenses sold for $6.95 (including shipping). At that price, how good can those 'lenses' possibly be? Nonetheless no wide angle lens I ever owned including 35mm camera lenses could fit all of the image I captured from the distance I used. (I know there's software available to stitch together a set of single images into a single panoramic view, and I even have one such tucked away in a drawer somewhere, but that involves a little work.)
First, when I was into 35mm, I had a 20-35 f2.8 Canon L lens. Maybe 1500$ retail and as good a piece of glass as I EVER owned. When I went to a digital the body had a crop factor of 1.3 which made the lens basically a 26mm.
And yes, both Photoshop AND the Canon 'PhotoStitch' will make panos from individual exposures.
However, my SONY NEX-7 has an INTERNAL stitching routine which is BRUTAL. I have a 14x60 print on the wall which is crystal clear and has amazing detail from corner to corner / edge to edge. The file for that photo is OVER 40 meg. Which once you think about it, ain't all that large a file.
For effects such as the one you got, I'll go with a 'Lens Baby'. Link Provided:
For serious types like me, this is something to own. You can get a variety of 'em, too, so look at the line and decide where you fit in.
Too much is never enough
The point is that I get no interference on aesthetics cleanliness and volume. Most significant is that the very high volumes don't make it to the bedroom. So that my insomniac self can listen as loud as I like as late as I like.
Besides which I would readily accept that my wife has pants but no one uses whips.
Satie, you brought up 'the' marriage issue. Perhaps the freedom to have one's stereo rig within the house proper should be included in every prenup. :-)
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