Rumours

[destrianlives]

People, just give me a Full Frame A700 replacement at $1600 or $1800 US Dollars with Nikon D3 noise levels and I'm good... for 5 years! The only reason then that I'd buy the A900 is for Hi-Res jobs! Now, gimmie, Gimmie, GIMMIE SONY!hiccup!

[Dr. Harout]

Nice site you have there David. Bookmarked it.

[Armen Gharib]

What about the rumors I would prefer the lens 8-2000 , which will be the best practical .
What do you think why Sony hasn't announced movie capturing camera until now, what's the matter?
Sony's electronics is more developed than Nicon's after all

[Dr. Harout]

Armen, welcome to the forum (a buddy from my country )

[David Kilpatrick]

Armen, welcome to the forum (a buddy from my country )

It's a forum invasion! Now we just need to know how Gh is sounded in Armenian, compared to plain H, whether it's a J sound or a kh/ch sort of sound. These things are much more important than photography.

Here's another Armenian:



Statue to 18th century agronomist Jean Althen, Armenian who settled in France and revolutionised French agriculture. One my shots from 2007 trip to Avignon, but no-one has wanted to buy him yet. Real name Hovhannès Althounian (Jean, John, Jon, Joan, Giovanni, Hovhannès, Johannes, Johan, Jan, Javan, Ian, Eoín, Iain, Séan, Janus, Janusz - any more variations out there?). NB: French agriculture has stayed the same ever since

David

[peterottaway]

David - I think with French farming you are ignoring the Miracle of ( The Treaty ) of Rome.

[Armen Gharib]

Dearest David, thank you for your interest in the Armenian pronunciation version of gh.
I was called for the interview a week a go by the France Telecom, and the interview was in English.
There were sitting French speaking people and they could not pronounce first 2 letters of my surname after my huge efforts
My opinion that this sound widely used in Arabic world. Below is represented some investigations by research professor Devin Stewart of Arabic I
think that gives some ideas of Gh pronunciation which is similar to Armenian I think.

The other cases, found throughout the Arab world, usually involve the
pronunciation of -r- as gh, less commonly as -w- -y- or -l- as has
been noted.
Similar phenomena occur in all languages with trilled r's, like
italian and
Spanish. A certain portion of the population is physically unable to
produce
the trilled -r-; I don't agree with the contributor who suggested
that this can
be fixed by a speech pathologist. the classical term for it is
althagh [fi
'r-ra']; this becomes aldagh, fem. ladgha in Egyptian and perhaps other
dialects. It is actually the default meaning, I believe, of aldagh--
that is,
if one does not specify the letter affected by being aldagh, the
assumption is
that it is ra', and not sin. The most famous althagh in history was
of course
Wasil b. `Ata', the eighth-century founder of the Mu`tazili school
theology,
who was famously asked to repeat the statement: amara amiiru l-
umaraa' bi-Hafri
bi'rin fi S-SaHraa' yashrabu minha l-waaridu wa'S-Saadir, which he
did, but
paraphrasing it so as to avoid any word with the letter -r-. Many
people know
this phrase from highschool in the Arab world, but don't knoow that
it is
attributed to WaaSil.

[Dr. Harout]

Just to be brief: how does a french in Paris pronounce the letter R as in Paris? and that's how you should pronounce the family name.

[Armen Gharib]

Thank you Dr., exactly .

[AJ Gressette]

how about an adaptor which will adapt nikon and canon lenses to A-Mount!

[Armen Gharib]

Great idea, but I would suggest the new Sony beta, gamma or omega which will be compatible to all kinds of bayonets