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The smaller sensor will just give you a longer effective focal length - typically by a factor of 1.4 or thereabouts.

Sure, there were drugs around, but it was not obligatory. You didn’t have to get involved with that sort of thing. It was personal choice, then as now. It was an era of rebellion and experimentation and that came in many guises. Drugs received a great deal of attention, because of the illegality and risk aspects, but experimentation with colour, fashion, gender fluidity, alternate lifestyles, music, literature etc were a far bigger and more transformative part of hippie culture.

Neither of those are going to be bad cameras. In a way you can’t go wrong.

Yes, let’s not forget Emma Peel and The Avengers when it came to popularising PVC, along with the aforementioned designers. The 60s were certainly the age when PVC came onto the scene, and did so in a big way. Unlike Puffer I quite liked the flower power/hippie era. Loved it in fact. But of course hippies were not into PVC. Different fashion culture altogether.

Not at all. I would not consider an £1800 camera body “budget”! I was thinking of the low hundreds.

That’s the thing with technology nowadays - you can get a budget DSLR these days with capabilities far beyond what were top of the range pro models only a few years ago, and for the most part the demands of shooting for magazines etc have remained largely the same. We have capabilities far beyond our needs.

Good thread! I know the PVC on the Topshop Jamie jeans is certainly very stretchy, but also quite thick and luxurious. It is proper PVC, but much nicer you know what I mean - high quality, not cheap thin tat. PVC certainly does have a 60s vibe - but also a 90s vibe, when it was in vogue then (although that too may have been a fond looking back at the 60s)

Photography involving timers and remote releases is something I happen to have a great deal of expertise in because of a long running project I have been doing. One series of cameras you might want to look into would be the Canon G-series of compacts. I have a couple of them - the G-11 and the G1X, both bought and used for this particular project of mine. They have (and other in the G-series do do) a customisable self timer that allows you to set the time delay for anywhere from 2 to 30 seconds, and then set the number of frames the camera will automatically shoot from 1 to 10 frames. This makes self timer photography MUCH easier, opens the door to many more possibilities and increases your chances of having a useable image or images. Both cameras - indeed the whole range of G-series cameras - shoot in RAW. The (more expensive) G1X has a larger than normal sensor size, giving it very good low light capabilities for a compact. Both have excellent handling of noise. And both have near DSLR capabilities and image quality - indeed I have used both in professional shoots and images I have shot with them are in some prestigious stock libraries oversea. Worth checking out for self fashion shoots.

I was pretty sure you were referring to the mouse....

Funnily enough the cartoon was itself out of circulation for several on the grounds of its being a racial stereotyping - it was recalled by popular demand by people in Mexico and Central America where it had been extremely popular!

For what it is worth, “Speedy” appears to be the little mouse’s first name. He has no other. Hi cousin is named Slowpoke

I’d be surprised. Guys wearing heels or nail varnish do not exactly have a strong constituency.

I agree. It is disappointing that our culture cultivates and encourages this sort of look and that so many parents tolerate it, or concede to the greater marketing forces. I am also deeply pleased that my own daughters have not bought into it in the slightest. They have no interest in that sort of thing and have found groups of friends among like minded kids.

And quite right too, no doubt

Yeah, it’s all very well to play at being offbeat and espousing noble causes, but this sort of thing is not part of their brief - they are being paid to espouse causes or take stands on social issues or make nice. They are police officers and should save that sort of thing for off-duty hours.

A lot of girls in my daughters’ classes at school (mid teens) dress and look very much like the two teenagers you mention. Again, it’s down to the parents. As for those instances above where the girls are accompanying their parents to what are undoubtedly celebrity functions, I can sort of see the logic and the appeal, to the teenagers themselves, in dressing up for the occasion. Sort of. I don't Know the circumstances of these particular events and so I wouldn’t presume to judge too harshly. And at any rate at least they are not dressed as provocatively as some of the tarty celebrity female singers (or whatever) one sees prancing about.

The G80 would be a nice camera...

I can appreciate the reluctance to upgrade especially when the so called advancements don’t really offer anything you want, but I always upgrade anyway for security reasons as it is usually best - safest - to keep up with the latest versions of everything. In terms of this thread, my autocorrect is usually happy with “PVC”!

Dark, and cobbled and stilettos sounds like an uneasy mix to me...

The thing is I pay extra for Apple because I like, in general, the quality of their stuff. Their predictive text was always obnoxious, as is all predictive text, but it has only become really bad since the most recent upgrade. I am hoping, expecting, that others besides myself will have brought this to their attention and some sort of patch will fix this soon.

Indeed mainly men. you could ‘spend’ a couple of mint state 1907 St Gaudens double eagles and buy a bottle of ‘51 Grange!

Exactly. I have all that crap turned off and since the last upgrade it continually does whatever it damn well pleases. I have just had an annoying battle with it over the word “gold”which it insists be capitalised. Even writing it just now I had to correct it four times to get it to stay in lower case. It alters words arbitrarily, and unless you go back over everything and edit it all, these things creep in.

The St Gaudens twenty dollar gold piece is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful coins ever designed. They were made from 1907 to 1933.Beautiful as they are, why own or try to own, the full set of 26? The point is to complete a set, the goal of nearly any collector or anything. And there are collectors of everything. That would be the “why”

You may request it, but action will depend on whether or not the auto-correct on my iPad will permit such a thing.

One would hope that would be no more than a tempest in a teapot, if that. it really is astounding that, for some socially impoverished people, the least breaking of the fashion mound can be a big deal. I’d put it right out of my mind if I were you. If their lives and world are that small, it’s their issue not yours. Move on.