16 Jul
1999
16 Jul
'99
8:25 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Some of the best ruins are found at the
"unpopular" sites that you may not find in any book. If I can't be there
firsthand, I'd rather look at the photos some vacationer brought back with
him, rather than reading about it in a book that may not even exist. The
vacationer (if he is conscientious) will surely bring back better and more
comprehensive photos than any book might have.
Ok, instead of
posting the pictures of some of these amazing Inca walls,
I'll just skip them and provide a description (won't be as good as the
picture itself but oh well...)
Hmmm. That picture can be considered in a variety of ways :
As an example of an Inca wall. Fine. But I can probably see a much higher
resolution image, that I can extract a lot more information from, by
simply going to the local public library. Maybe you've spotted some feature that nobody else
has. But in that case
I doubt if you could get enough useful information from a digital photo.
I guess you'll have to wait and see. Its not like I'm just going to throw
up a captionless photo and let the web visitor try to figure out what
they're looking at! Sheesh!
This isn't meant as a flame either. But if we
return to classic computers
for the moment, I've not seen a digital photo of _anything_ on a web page
that I consider useful. Scanned in diagrams, sure. But the average photo
of a classic computer doesn't have the resolution to read all the labels
on the case, let alone work out what the circuit boards or chips are.
Tony, I've yet to see a site where anyone attempted that level of detail!
I'm sure that if someone undertook the task to create such a fantasically
detailed website then you'd be able to easily pull it off with a decent
digital camera!!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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