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Rub--
I have a Sony Mavica CD250. It has a charger that converts 110 AC to 12 V DC. The male plug thst goes into the power point hads round contacts iunstead of the two flat ones that are sytandard here in the US, and there's an adapter that allows me to use it here. I'll go look in Magellan's catalog to see what they have available.
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TEd
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A lovely poem Milum.
I recall (vaguely) a song called "Ireland, Mother Ireland" Some of the lyric includes in the verse Let's see :
"If you sigh, we hear you.
If you weep, we weep.
In your hours of gladness, how our pulses leap.
Ireland, Mother Ireland,
Come what may befall,
Ever shall we hold thee
Dearest, best of all."
Can't remember the rest.
Anyone help? [EDIT : Never mind, It came to me while I was brushing my tooth last night at bedtime!!!
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From Chicago Tribune magazine, Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" rendered as a PowerPoint presentation:
PROJECT GOALS:
- To watch woods fill up with snow.
- To do so without being observed.
- To steal some time from other projects.
- To stay mindful of other projects, however.
RISKS OF PROJECT:
- Could get caught by owner of woods.
- Could cause disorientation in horse.
PROBABILITY OF DISCOVERY:
- Identity of owner not 100 percent sure.
- Likeliest candidate lives in village.
- Cannot rule out other owner or owners, or recent real estate sale.
- Would be wise to be ready to start up sleigh.
STATUS OF HORSE:
- Likely disoriented by unplanned stoppage.
- Additional reasons for disorientation:
-- No farmhouse near
-- Only woods and frozen lake nearby
-- Darkest evening of the year
- Horse shows uneasiness by shaking bells.
STATUS OF WOODS:
- Lovely; dark; deep
- Largely silent, though wind and snow flurries are slightly audible
LIMITATIONS ON PROJECT:
- Strictly short-term
- Other commitments have priority
- Also need to sleep
- Commitments involve miles of travel.
- Travel has precedence over sleep.
editor's note: I do believe "rendered" was well-chosen.
-ron o.
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Well, at least they didn't say "orientated"...  Milo's to go before I sleep.  Just couldn't help it--that's what I thought of as soon as I saw that line!
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I have a Sony Mavica CD250. It has a charger that converts 110 AC to 12 V DC.
Built-in battery? If that's the case then I can't help you. A converter is your best bet.
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Magellans has a bag for film which allows it to go through Xray without damage! A professional Pho-Jo friend swears by it.
I'm sure Rubrick can kerreckt this info I am about to give if it is inkerreckt, but I've heard that such bags don't work. I trusted my source because it was a camera shop that sells the bags....Why would they turn away a potential sale? yet they did.
So the wisdom I heard on lead-lined bags to protect your film was: Don't bother and don't waste your money. The x-rays in airports are very low-dose (except for the ones they put checked luggage through - hence you should NEVER put your film in your checked luggage, in a lead-lined bag or not) and will not harm film that is below something like 1000 ASA (most amateur shutterbugs shoot either 200 or 400, very rarely as high as 800 and only for specialised pix such as action shots at sports events).
Always take your fillum in your carry-on bag, and don't worry about the x-rays...that's wot I heard. I also heard that if you use a lead-lined bag, airport security types will just bump up the dose on the machine until they can see through it. Now THIS info seemed a tad suspect to me - I thought x-rays couldn't get through lead, period? - but I offer it up as one more possibly erroneous tidbit of info.
It does make sense, though, that airport security types are not going to view lead-lined protective bags kindly - since they wouldn't have any idea what such bags are likely to be "protecting." If I were an airport security type and such a bag came through my machine, I'd make the owner open it so I could be sure it didn't contain a small gun or knife, or plastique or any similar weapon of small-scale destruction.
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FWIW I have taken film up to 400ASA through x-ray machines at airports around the world, including what are called 3rd world countries and never had a problem. I suppose a machine could be faulty, but I reckon that would spoil their picture.
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I'm sure Rubrick can kerreckt this info I am about to give if it is inkerreckt, but I've heard that such bags don't work.
I trusted my source because it was a camera shop that sells the bags....Why would they turn away a potential sale?
yet they did.
I'll answer this by simply pasting in a section of one of my posts from way above near the top of this thread.
As for film I'm a keen photographer and take my camera with me on all my trips. As a rule I take everything as cabin baggage and pack only my tripod and other hardies in my hold luggage. The x-ray machine used for hold luggage is much more powerful than the one used for passengers and cabin baggage so your films stand a much better chance of survival staying with you. I carried back tewlve rolls of film from NY in December 2001 (after stringent security was introduced) and they all came out perfectly.
There was a time (not so long ago) when you were entitled to a manual search of some bags (like a camera bag) to spare some valuable items the ardours of x-rays. They may still do it here (except on paranoiac US flights) but I fear that those days are now long gone.
As for x-rays going through lead - if they fo through lead they ain't x-rays. Lead-lined bags are a swizz. Show your films to the security guy and then walk through the friskem. That works on magnets - not x-rays - and magnets don't affect film.
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OK guys, chill out about the lead and x-rays. The special thing about x-rays, is that nothing stops them 100%. Sorry to break it to y'all. The reduction in the amount of dose that gets through is related exponentially* to the amount of lead (or other material) in the beam. Therefore those lead vests you wear during dental x-rays reduce the dose to below a certain amount which is far less than what you get from background radiation, and which is considered acceptably low-risk. Trust me, it's gobs less than your average dose from rocks, cosmic rays, etc. It is not exactly zero dose but it is "low enough" (and let's not get into another discussion of limits here) not to cause you any harm.
* so if one layer of lead of a given thickness reduces the dose by 1/2, another layer added on will reduce by 1/2 again (giving 1/4 of the dose), and another layer will reduce by 1/2 again (giving 1/8 of the dose)...unlike the limit discussion in Q&A, you can really only put a finite thickness of lead between the x-rays and the film, so depending on where you want to stop, you get a rather small but nonzero amount of x-rays going through. And maybe the lead-lined bags for airports don't have enough lead to make one whit of difference. To figure that out, I need (a) the thickness of lead in the bags, and (b) the energy of x-rays used in the machines. I have the books with the rest of the numbers needed to figure out if your film would be affected.
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Inconsistent idioms/spelling/dialect aside, mg  , what we do is pull out the film at check point and hand it over to the 'airport security type', outside the machine. This has been the norm on both national and international trips, in my case, even post 9/11. Has it changed?
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