Bridgeport impeccably maintained for sale.

Garwood · Dec 25, 2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhotography/comments/n289lx
I think this somewhat current discussion on Reddit sums it up well.

Like I said, I'm not a pro photographer and I have come to understand and appreciate the extreme difference between what a camera phone can do and what a DSLR does.

My primary gripe is your phone's software post processes your image automatically. Just like multiple Reddit users state- you look back through a bunch of phone pictures you thought were great at the time and realize just how blah and shitty they actually are compared to DSLR pictures. And this is X1000 in imperfect lighting situations and whare you are outside the optimal focal range of the micro phone lens.

I use my phones camera everyday. I use the DSLR when a picture actually needs to be realistic and decent.

jccaclimber · Dec 25, 2022

You’ve got me curious now. Once I get back to my machines in a week I’ll take some way photos. Mind if I ping you then?

Garwood · Dec 25, 2022

john.k said:
Dont laugh...millenials wont buy without a long story.......locally ,a 20" shaper sold for $5,500 with a story that would take a non millenial a year to read .....and the killer ......Vice is $500 extra "if you want it"

Us millenials just enjoy hearing your boomer stories. Life before cars and phones and how dirt was invented. Lol

EmanuelGoldstein · Dec 26, 2022

Garwood said:
I use my phones camera everyday. I use the DSLR when a picture actually needs to be realistic and decent.

Gar, a camera would cost more than this KBC pos is worth.

And I'd want another $100 off for wading through that bullshit story

DDoug · Dec 26, 2022

EmanuelGoldstein said:
Gar, a camera would cost more than this KBC pos is worth.

And I'd want another $100 off for wading through that bullshit story

A bad pix is usefull when hiding stuff, next time OP can try a little Vaseline on the camera lens.

kenton · Dec 26, 2022

Garwood said:
Us millenials just enjoy hearing your boomer stories. Life before cars and phones and how dirt was invented. Lol

I always like hearing my dad's stories about camping when he was a kid. They had extra wide tent stakes so they would hold better in sand, since dirt hadn't been invented yet.

gmach10 · Dec 26, 2022

I'll admit it right out, I'm not Richard King but I reside in Chicago. If anyone is serious about this machine perhaps I could go and look at it and give my limited opinion of it. Not too hard to see excessive backlash, ditches in the table and a noisy head. Please don't send me on a wild goose chase to pacify your curiousity, I don't have the time. All that said, that kind of money for a step pulley machine seems a tad bit high. But again I'm not a machine tool dealer either.

Rob F. · Dec 26, 2022

I have no skin in this game but there a lot of past posts on here about step pulley heads being "better" for vfd's. If you need to power a 3ph machine and plan on using a vfd to do it then a more simple step pulley head may be the better choice.

EmanuelGoldstein · Dec 26, 2022

Rob F. said:
I have no skin in this game but there a lot of past posts on here about step pulley heads being "better" for vfd's.

Even without a vfd I much prefer a step head. They are shorter, lighter, easier and faster to change tools, just all-round better. The minimal advantages of vari-speed are way outweighed by the disadvantages, imo.

RC Mech · Dec 26, 2022

Garwood said:
Us millenials just enjoy hearing your boomer stories. Life before cars and phones and how dirt was invented. Lol

Worse still is confusing Gen Z with Millennials. Millennials are old news, but boomers were never sticklers for accuracy, or honesty, or anything that didn’t directly serve them and them alone.

On the camera front I’m with you. The software correction on a modern phone camera is immense, but there’s no substitute for letting light into a huge lens.

Toolmaker51 · Dec 26, 2022

jccaclimber said:
My aunt who is retired from a successful career as a full time photographer will disagree with you. Her opinion is that today’s year old good phones are near equivalent to consumer grade DSLR stuff from a decade ago for most practical purposes.
I can’t do the same thing with my 3 year old iphone that I can with my $30k Leica microscope, but I certainly take pictures that far exceed the needs of the OP if I wipe the smudges off the lens, turn the room lights on, and focus the picture.

The proof of photo quality is in what degree of enlargement still produces a sharp image. Phones are auto focus with little if any way to acheive depth of field effects. Camera in phone is only a convenience, my old 3.2 compacts with a range of aperture, ASA, other equivalent of film adjustments make all the difference between pictures and photography.

Toolmaker51 · Dec 26, 2022

RC Mech said:
but boomers were never sticklers for accuracy, or honesty, or anything that didn’t directly serve them and them alone.

Hmmmm. Let's compare results achieved by the great artistic and photojournalists to last 20 years of digital instant photos, those folks with out concern of investment needed to compose a winning shot..... in one take.

Toolmaker51 · Dec 26, 2022

Haven't seen comments on "impeccably maintained", seems an accurate post would hinge on that.
My little P&W Jig Bore still carries the original motor and spindle. Motor tag is stamped July 4th, 1917. Perhaps degrees of less incidental use and careless operators, but almost 106 years?
Just what circumstance puts an import head on a Bridgeport base, surely before 'supply chain' shortages.

jccaclimber · Dec 26, 2022

Toolmaker51 said:
The proof of photo quality is in what degree of enlargement still produces a sharp image. Phones are auto focus with little if any way to acheive depth of field effects. Camera in phone is only a convenience, my old 3.2 compacts with a range of aperture, ASA, other equivalent of film adjustments make all the difference between pictures and photography.

We’re talking about an internet posting for sale adv on something cheaper than a used car. If you have to enlarge more than 2x the seller took the wrong photo. In no way am I arguing that a cell phone is a superior camera to a dedicated system costing multiples as much. I’m arguing that either tool exceeds what is needed for the task at hand.
My buddy’s Matsuura horizontal is a more capable machine than his drill press, but both are more than adequate for drilling clearance holes in 1/4” aluminum plate.

Toolmaker51 · Dec 26, 2022

jccaclimber said:
We’re talking about an internet posting for sale adv on something cheaper than a used car.....

No one suggesting otherwise. At same time, can't count many times of not expanding a photo to max available, looking for details deemed more important than seller regards.
Along with that, how many sale posts are really A-1 in grade of photo/s/ and description?
How many get posted without ANY proofread or check on what actual post looks like?
Page versus page, the free ones are crap in comparision with those having a cost. Also reflects in owner responses, or lack of.

cyanidekid · Dec 26, 2022

EmanuelGoldstein said:
Even without a vfd I much prefer a step head. They are shorter, lighter, easier and faster to change tools, just all-round better. The minimal advantages of vari-speed are way outweighed by the disadvantages, imo.

I absolutely love my vari-speed head, but I refurbed it as soon as I got it.
I think that's just PTSD from having spent hours operating a gacked one, lol!
cheers EG, stay safe over there.

cyanidekid · Dec 26, 2022

Toolmaker51 said:
No one suggesting otherwise. At same time, can't count many times of not expanding a photo to max available, looking for details deemed more important than seller regards.
Along with that, how many sale posts are really A-1 in grade of photo/s/ and description?
How many get posted without ANY proofread or check on what actual post looks like?
Page versus page, the free ones are crap in comparision with those having a cost. Also reflects in owner responses, or lack of.

the data bandwidth limitations here make anything better that an iPhone 10 completely irrelevant to posting a pic of a machine.
(but, yea, if you want to be taken seriously, you gotta do WAY better than the OP)
oh, and you BET I do understand how much better a DSLR is, try taking a decent photo of the recent Blood Moon we had here in NYC
with a phone cam, lol!

eKretz · Dec 26, 2022

Yeah, phone cams have come a long way but they are nowhere near as good as a legit DSLR. More light on a larger sensor just can't be beat. They are plenty good enough for most photo tasks though. About the only place the DSLR is really necessary is in low light or long telephoto situations. The big lenses are primo for that. I use my phone for most photo stuff these days, though I also have a DSLR.

EmanuelGoldstein · Dec 27, 2022

cyanidekid said:
cheers EG, stay safe over there.

Thanks but we're fine .... thought it was going to get a bit hairy for a moment but turned out to be a false alarm.

Two weeks ago about half the people I know caught it (including assistant), and I was all "la la la, I had four moderna shots nanner nanner !" but just to put me in my place, I had to get it too so got better the other day, now the other fourth of the people I know just got it, they are kinda happy because that means they'll be better for spring festival, so all's well with the world. That leaves about three people with their cherry out of the 26 million in the neighborhood ... Wasn't that big a deal, just like a kind of nasty sore throat and runny nose. Good thing this wasn't three years ago or you wouldn't have EG to kick around no more, people were croaking like a frog jamboree back then. Kinda surpising just how fast it spread tho, like a forest fire blowup.

So I got a front row seat, beginning to end.

Don't believe the crap you read in the papers, they are full of shit. Right now I'm a bit grumpy because the "fragrant crunchy vegetable pancake" lady is closed but most stuff is fine. Just seems like kind of a waste of the 50 pcr tests I had to take and the damn quarantine but oh well.

Garwood · Dec 28, 2022

EmanuelGoldstein said:
Thanks but we're fine .... thought it was going to get a bit hairy for a moment but turned out to be a false alarm.

Two weeks ago about half the people I know caught it (including assistant), and I was all "la la la, I had four moderna shots nanner nanner !" but just to put me in my place, I had to get it too so got better the other day, now the other fourth of the people I know just got it, they are kinda happy because that means they'll be better for spring festival, so all's well with the world. That leaves about three people with their cherry out of the 26 million in the neighborhood ... Wasn't that big a deal, just like a kind of nasty sore throat and runny nose. Good thing this wasn't three years ago or you wouldn't have EG to kick around no more, people were croaking like a frog jamboree back then. Kinda surpising just how fast it spread tho, like a forest fire blowup.

So I got a front row seat, beginning to end.

Don't believe the crap you read in the papers, they are full of shit. Right now I'm a bit grumpy because the "fragrant crunchy vegetable pancake" lady is closed but most stuff is fine. Just seems like kind of a waste of the 50 pcr tests I had to take and the damn quarantine but oh well.

I send my 3 germ buckets (kids) to the petri dish (schools) to maintain our viral defense through continuous improvement!

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