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pre-tent: post-tent: Picture taken today with the lights inside the tent: Picture taken with more complicated lighting: Flash is death for watch photography.

Anyhow, we digress. I'll be needing a camera mostly for watch photography as my DMC-FZ20 does the job for day-to-day pics. So, where are the watch photos to show off your cameras?

Coo, la defence. I took this one there with a crappy fuji:

Finally, courtesy of Precious Time's raffle, here are the final photos of my MoonWatch. As you can see, I had to go to the moon to get the right lighting: This shot was taken inside the shuttle, where we had to do our equipment checks: Here, you can see the MoonWatch in it's zero-gravity holder: It started floating away here: It floated out of the shuttle into space, where it snagged a satellite: But eventually, it started falling to the moon surface: Here, it bumped into an old friend: Look, there's that satellite again! Amazing watch, by the way. Lemania-copy Venus, blah, chrono, rhubarb, stainless-steel, blah ... Amazingly for an Omega, it has two settings on the strap clasp meaning it doesn't need half-links. The bracelet is held together with pins and tubes, so get a toolkit to size it. Differences with the genuine: The real Omega moonwatch comes in three flavours: The 3573.50.00 with the display back, the 3510.50.00, which is a slightly smaller automatic, and the 3570.50.00, which is the proper non-display-backed Moon Watch. The replica is a copy of the 3573.50.00, but the movement is a Venus movement instead of the Lemania used in the genuine. This leads to an old favourite: a subdial spacing issue. On the genuine, the dials are much closer to the centre, but you need to know to look for it. Apart from that, it's pretty damned close. I love the watch for its retro looks and its history. Like a Panerai 111h, it doesn't need to modernise with an Automatic movement. It has no fear of any comparisons as it can always reply "Yes, but I went to the moon." You can't argue with a watch like this. The watch can also go dressy with the simple addition of a black leather strap, as can be seen here: I could go on for hours, but my dinner is ready. I hope the pics encourage you to consider buying one of these watches. You'll be happy you did.

Ditto: (edit to put some space between the pics)

You don't like my Leica-lensed photos?

JTFC! What kind of Moron do you have to be to consider that?

Unless they feel 'dry', of course, then they need a service. If I honestly thought Asian 7750s were rubbish, I'd not be sending my IWC to get serviced. I rate the Asian 7750, and if you get one and it feels perfect, it'll probably last. If it feels slightly rough, a service will make it on par with a fresh ETA, according to The Zigmeister.

Well, the movements you buy labelled Swiss have never actually been to Switzerland. They are made in China, just like our Asian movements, but they're made for ETA, a Swiss company. If your image of Asian movements is a kowloon sweatshop and your image of Swiss is an artisanale old gent in a cottage in the alps, with chocolate and cuckoo clocks and yodelling in the distance, then I'm sorry to shatter your illusion. ETAs are made in China, in some cases possibly alongside our Asian movements.

Yeah, exactly. How about ... Damn, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

So much for freedom, eh? ... and shall remain so as long as "men will be men" here.

Heh, we were writing at the same time. Funny the first watch on our lists is the same.

There isn't really a list. Still, what reps would you put on a nine-star list? I'll start: IWC GST Chrono. Accurate enough and cool as fsck. MoonWatch. Subdials in wrong place, but amazing nonetheless. There are apparently nine-star Breitlings and the TAG Link is up there.

I think you don't understand the kind of porno I worked on: Single naked girl in front of a camera. Also, you need to talk to the women before you start equating it with violence.

It's not about being offended. Oh, and everyone stop assuming that everyone else is just like you. Just because there are people like me who don't object to porn doesn't mean nobody objects. I wonder if we've driven away a superb watchsmith because his religion frowns upon nudity, or if we've cost someone their job which was their only internet access, or if the next The Zigmeister/Palp/Ubi/Edge got told he couldn't visit any more as Mrs Nextzig cried when she saw him looking at 'porn'. The ones you've already scared away will never come here to defend their absence. Really, what value does a 128x128 animated porn gif add to a watch site?

I got the Sub from TTK ($120) and the LV-alike GMT from Silix-prime. Thanks for the bump. I hope you use the tutorial to encourage yourself to take pics of your eral Submariner.

High Five!

Bingo! This is the winner.

Cash. Porn is fun, but it doesn't pay much, contrary to popular opinion. I took a break from IT to do photo stuff when I was in a period of my life where I didn't need the cash. Once I needed the cash again, I got right back into IT.

Comparative reviews of the Canon 30D seem to indicate otherwise. They both seem to be excellent cameras with the Canon beating the Nikon in several categories. I like this hot battle as it raises everyone's game.

...and just like the Hummer, modern PAMs are also based on classy Italian design while missing the mark equally as well. (The Hum-Vee was ripped off the Lamborghini off-roader concept, in case you didn't know.)

Sorry, I have old film SLRs already. I dismantled my dark room at the end of the 20th century, and am pure digital now.

I'm not so sure I understand you, but I think you're saying it's not the sort of thing I should talk about. Like I said, I don't see it as shameful. It's not looked upon as an evil career here in Paris. In porn photography, there is a lot of down-time, where people just sit around talking, so you get to know the models well, especially as the photographer didn't speak good english, but I, being english, did, and most of the models didn't speak french as they're from budapest, prague, etc., so I got to chat a lot with several models and was able to get to know them much like any other people you'd work with. The industry is very well regulated these days and the advent of the internet and digital video has taken the management out of organised crime and into normal business. With freedom comes responsability.

... and of course the entire Ferrari range.

You see, you missed that thread before posts were edited and deleted. There was a post going on about his girl's [censored] and another claiming to be able to see her nipple and describing it. I wasn't the one one-handed browsing that thread. You don't know me, because if you did, you would know that my time spent working in the porn industry was an excellent and entertaining period of my life and didn't change my views on how I see porn. I love pretty ladies, especially when they're naked or scantily clad. I worked with a porn photographer and met quite a few porn stars and models and was impressed by how un-abused they seemed. I don't have any pretensions that porn was art, as it is produced purely for enjoyment, usually involving wanking. Masturbating web surfers paid my rent, and as such I do not judge them or fear them. I was grateful there were enough of them to subsidise my spending time in the company of porn stars. Is it clear enough yet? I have nothing against nudity, sex, porn, masturbation, etc. However, this is a [censored]ing watch forum and when I want porn, I'll look elsewhere. Honestly, when I said you don't know me, I wasn't kidding.