Sony A9 Master Series KE48A9 OLED winging its way to Marco Towers!

[struth]

Lol - does unky want/need her?

Marco.

now!!

[Marco]

As I have said previously, when at a cinema I like to sit as far away from the screen as possible. In the days of the old single screen cinemas wher you could buy a ticket for the 'circle', I would do that and sit as close to the front row and as close to the centre aisle as I could.

Nowadays with multi-screen cinemas, this is not possible, so I rarely go to the cinema. Watching a film way off-axis or too close to the screen is not a pleasant experience for me.

I used to be a member of a film club (as I enjoy foreign language films), where the films were screened in a relatively small room with a screen size to match. Even then I would sit at the back in an aisle seat.

Lol - you're a right fussy bugger, aren't you?

Stuff like that just doesn't bother us to the same degree, although when booking tickets for the cinema (as we did on Saturday) we always prefer to be in the middle of the room, and somewhere on an aisle where we're effectively sat as close as possible to the middle of the screen, and far enough back for it not to be too 'imposing'.

The ends of the aisles are also good for me, having long legs, making even the 'Premier' seats uncomfortable after a while, if I can't stretch out my legs. That's also one of the reasons why we always try and book seats on planes, near the doors, as for me, with greater leg room, they're so much more comfortable!

Marco.

P.S As an aside, one of the things we used to love doing as kids, in the old days of 'stalls' or 'circles 'in cinemas, was going up to the circle and sitting right in the front row, so we could flick things at, or use our pea-shooters, on the bald-headed old men down below!

[Marco]

now!!

Lol, understandable... She is rather good value in 'nurse mode' and takes her job there quite seriously

Marco.

[Barry]

Whatever happened to 'Thelma' (sorry I forgot the exact nom d'emploi of the dominatrix) who lived behind the little white door? Is she still offering her specialist services?

[Marco]

Lol - how *could* you forget Tabatha and her antics in the dungeon!

Marco.

[Barry]

Ah yes, Tabatha. How could I have forgotten?

[Macca]

Exactly so. How do we know what the director sees - we don't have have his eyes.

You and I can look at a red rose, and agree by convention that the colour is 'red', but the red you see may not be the same as the red that I see.

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This is true but nevertheless there is a colour standard for the motion picture industry so regardless of the variation in individual's eyes the colour on the screen will be the same on any screen - assuming it is calibrated to the industry standard. There's no circle of confusion for video in the way that there is for audio.

[Marco]

Is this 'circle of confusion' a recognised term or something? If so, I'd never heard of it before.

Marco.

[struth]

Is this 'circle of confusion' a recognised term or something? If so, I'd never heard of it before.

Marco.

its a photography term as is circle of least confusion.

summat to do with depth of field and focus.

[Marco]

Ah right, thanks. That's why I had no idea what Dennis was on about when he mentioned it - I just thought he was being rather cheeky!

Marco.