Re: L.L. Bean!

["simonwide:\"First simonwide:Last\"" <simonwide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yes, the late frits rogans, amsterdam,
built a temporary panoramic camera for my south pole trip in 1962. it used
(loaner) magazines from his system. they were based on f-46 torpedo camera
in that they had addition filn plane distance rearward to allow for heavy
brass plated to allow gor hasselblad-like darkslides. i also carried my
own f-46 magazines to mcmurdoo. they had no darkslide so were not interchangeable
on to frits-built camera. frits camera had my 121mm f. 8   schneider
super angulon which had not yet acquired a focusing mount. navy gave me
a picture of  with this frits-built at arizona memorial in honolulu
on way back to mainland. we had the lens set at hyper focal distance. lens
was removed from camera and schneider made focusing mount for me. frits
took back, or should i say accepted, his film magazines. i itched, i ached
to have a better camera than i'd made in 1961, but with which i did wraparound
panoramic cover of the book "life's guide to paris."  as for do i
ever laugh, this letter made me laugh. simon nathan  i did not understand
the qustion that ended your message. can you clarify this bit of whimsy
please.

Rehotshots@xxxxxxx wrote:

o.k. I'll stay and play awhile.

L.L. Bean!  No one told me that I could get a matching camera to go with my
new jacket!

Now, Simon, didn't you just tell me that someone made a camera just for you?
Leave that man alone, you pugnacious old fart.  Must I pay for the
pearls of wisdom you must hold with your age and experience with my soul?
Put it in a book, my friend.  I am sure we would find you much less
offensive and you could preserve the science of panorama to boot.  Did he
attack the camera or the cameraman?  Anyway, I would rather buy from
my friends than L.L. Bean or XYZ  Photo of NYC.  Do you ever laugh?
Well, I am here to  a  muse you, so be amused, right now!!!  Are you always
this hard?  No, the man I met a minute ago was very sweet and charming.
Where did he go?  Bring him back this instant!  You frighten me.
And you never told me when the big boys let you play with your new camera
either.
                                                                    rambling
muse
                                                                     or teri,
if you prefer