LHC Photography wrote:

yeah, scary isn't it?

Tres! But thanks for the sweet tag! lolol. We won't hold your evil twin against you. ;-)

LHC Photography wrote:
yeah, scary isn't it?

The Lam's are taking over.

lll wrote:

The Lam's are taking over.

Yap, a world full of Lam!!! Woowhoo!!!

D. Brian Nelson wrote:
AND...Mr. Lam just translated a huge article from Mandarin to English for me as well.  A man of many talents...

-Don

Just to help clarify this:
Mandarin is the official dialect for the Chinese language. There are well over 1,000 dialects in China. Lam is a spelling of Chinese based on the Cantonese dialect (mostly used in Hong Kong and some Southeast Asia Chinese communities). Lin = Lam in Mandarin. There are two different ways of writing Chinese: the simplified form and traditional form. China and Singapore use the simplified form and Hong Kong, Taiwan and the rest of Southeast Asia Chinese communities use the traditional form. Regardless of how it is written, they can be used the same way in any of the dialects in China. In most cases, educated people in China can speak Mandarin (since it is the official dialect). Less eduated people or uneducated people (mostly those who live in rural parts of China) usually speak only their local dialect(s). It is common that Chinese people cannot understand each other because they don't understand each other's dialect (most people in Hong Kong only speak Cantonese). However, they will understand each other when they see the writing. So, if you do end up in a remote location in China and can't understand the people there and they hand you a piece of paper, they expect you to write something in Chinese.

lll wrote:

The Lam's are taking over.

there is another ll in MM: https://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=72151

Renée Jacobs wrote:
BENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're everywhere!!!! Ok, riddle me this my little Lammmmies, somewhere I think I read that the Chinese word for "fear" is composed of two characters, one being danger, the other opportunity. Is that a bunch of feel good new age hooey or is there something to that?

Nope. It is indeed "a bunch of feel good new age hooey". I think the word most people think that is a composit of "danger" and "opportunity" is Risk. I even saw it in a finance textbook I use.
Here is what the chinese characters danger looks like:


Here is what the chinese characters for opportunity looks like:


If you take the first character from each of the you get the "feel good new age hooey" version. You can't say that it is 100% wrong. But here is what risk in chinese should look like:
风险

Chinese is a context language and the meaning of the same character would change depends on the context. Confussing enough?

Renée Jacobs wrote:
Benny, did you see lll snuck in while we were sleeping? And he's multiplying? 'Tis a scary thang.

holy Lam, lll eo  snuck in while I was out

LHC Photography wrote:

there is another ll in MM: https://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=72151

yes but he is not a Leo Lam like you and Leo Lam

Benny-H wrote:
I stummped Leo Lams yup both of them hahaha

well, at least the other Leo Lam didn't know the answer either. i am still safe. hey, try Lewis Lam. he is in hong kong right now and might know something. . .

Benny-H wrote:
I stummped Leo Lams yup both of them hahaha

???????????? Benny, are you Leo trolling on the side? lolololol

Richard Dubois wrote:
He's the only photographer I know who really knows what gamma is, and the champion of raw shooting.  Thanks to him I have a vague idea how to calibrate my monitor.  I haven't done it, but at least now I know how.

Gamma? Everybody knows Gamma. I love her pies come the holidays.  I can just taste the pumpkin pie with just hint of gun powder, old moth balls, and Wild Turkey ..... ummmm, to know Gamma is to love Gamma.  Luv ya Gamma.

Oh, and what everybody said about Leo (except doesn't he shoot with a Canon??)

LHC Photography wrote:

Nope. It is indeed "a bunch of feel good new age hooey". I think the word most people think that is a composit of "danger" and "opportunity" is Risk. I even saw it in a finance textbook I use.
Here is what the chinese characters danger looks like:


Here is what the chinese characters for opportunity looks like:


If you take the first character from each of the you get the "feel good new age hooey" version. You can't say that it is 100% wrong. But here is what risk in chinese should look like:
风险

Chinese is a context language and the meaning of the same character would change depends on the context. Confussing enough?

Doesn't seem like a lot of Risk to me.  How about Clue or Monopoly?

Benny-H wrote:
so i told Leo I will post our conversation we had thru e-mail, where I stummped him hahaha


Benny-H
11/13/06 12:11 PM

yashita dl2000 ever hear of it? good camera? just wondering

thanx

Benny


lll
11/13/06 2:22 PM
    Benny, Yashita? You Yashica? I don't know of a Yashica DL2000, but there is an Olympus DL2000...

I think the best person to ask would be Karl Blessing. That guy knows a lot of cameras. He is such a geek.


Benny-H
11/13/06 3:55 PM
omg i stummped leo, is the world coming to an end? and yes the camera says Yashita Japan on the top next too the viewfinder and the model number on the front.

i must go into the leo thread and tell the world

Benny


lll
11/13/06 4:23 PM
    LoL

Huh. Never heard of a YashiTa camera. Yashica I had one. Ok, you stumped me!

Leo


Benny-H
11/13/06 4:33 PM
can I quote you and put it in the Leo thread for all to see?




lll
11/13/06 4:37 PM
    lol

i think yashica and yashita must be the same brand, only yashita is sold in europe and yashica in the rest of the world. . . benny, can you get a photo of the camera and post it here? i think we can solve the puzzle with a photo. i've never been stumped by a question like this before. . . and i, too, am a geek.

Tim Baker wrote:

Doesn't seem like a lot of Risk to me.  How about Clue or Monopoly?

yeah, using chinese can be very risky. a sentence that has no punctuation mark can be changed to mean a different thing when punctuations marks are put in. i recall there is a story about a host trying to kick a guest who has over stayed his welcome by a one sentence note. the guest added 3 punctuation marks to the sentence and stayed forever. risky!

LHC Photography wrote:

i think yashica and yashita must be the same brand, only yashita is sold in europe and yashica in the rest of the world. . . benny, can you get a photo of the camera and post it here? i think we can solve the puzzle with a photo. i've never been stumped by a question like this before. . . and i, too, am a geek.

oh p.s I tool a look at the Olympus camera, and everything is the same as the Yashita camera, the only thing different is where is says Yashita it says Olympus. The camera is from over seas.

Benny-H wrote:

oh p.s I tool a look at the Olympus camera, and everything is the same as the Yashita camera, the only thing different is where is says Yashita it says Olympus. The camera is from over seas.

see, we didn't get stumped. you set us up. nice try, benny.

LHC Photography wrote:

see, we didn't get stumped. you set us up. nice try, benny.

but you guys did hahaha I rule!!!!

T H Taylor wrote:
Leo...
You rock my man.
Haven't heard from you in a while and was thinking that you were not posting on MM anymore; goes to show how attentive I am!
This man helped me thfough some rocky PS times and now, I'm glad to say, I'm actually mediocre at photoshop!

Stay cool "breeze!"
T.

Hey T, this Leo Chan, not Leo Lam. He is back though. You have to dig deep to find him though. You can also count on Lewis Lam for PS questions:

https://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=72151

Yeap, we're bunch of Leos and Lams.

Benny wrote:
everybody loves a leo

Benny also love to stump Leos.

T H Taylor wrote:
Leo...
You rock my man.
Haven't heard from you in a while and was thinking that you were not posting on MM anymore; goes to show how attentive I am!
This man helped me thfough some rocky PS times and now, I'm glad to say, I'm actually mediocre at photoshop!

T, thanks...how kind of you to say that.  I don't post much any more, I am a little tired of repeating the same things over and over again... 

You and the word "mediocre" in the same line?  That just doesn't sound right.

Hey, send over more Christie's photos...(email, that is). 

Benny-H wrote:
I love Leo and he loves me

And I do.