Re: L.L. Bean!

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

if anyone on the list
understands these questions please help me. the hs simon/wide had worked
the james bond film "thunderball" in nassau so this was my second (of twenty)
movies i'd worked. it was bought to take transport acft photos  derby
time in 1964. i had no movie work, hadn't considered it. i was in egypt
because i had a specialty. look at posts of last week or so. mention date
for 1966 life with double truck "khartoum" picture. this is from high speed
simon/wide. if you are in states most libraries keep file of this magazine.
look in any scott stamp catalogue, say 1990 forward. and in united nations
section you can see u.n. postage stamp done withn fuji g617. it was information
i received from list member. i'd never seen  this ref. if you are
in new york city you can buy stamp (45c) at u.n. visitors' post office.it
was issued in 1989 and supplies are running low.i was on the film job because
united artists hired me.you have asked unspecific questions from bits of
information different camera details. if you asking about first photographs
which camera you asking about?old fawcett "camera in paris" paperbacks
have three pan shots on cover, some inside b&w.specifically, my camera
provided 6x12 color transparencies quite a bit larger than 35mm ones. in
the case of 1964 simon/wide built in japan i used it the very next day
in osan, korea, 1964.they could order and use the same camera i was using
or they could have different specs on their hulcher built sequence camera.
it   was a modified 102. next 49 went to us navy..then life magazine
ordered #51, as i recall.   simon nathan  i was not the
rookie.

Rehotshots@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In your first response you said that 5 photographers
> did not want you to use
> your new camera, feeling that they were at a disadvantage, I presume.
> Since you were new then, I suppose they were what I call "the big boys",
> and you the rookie.  When did you first get a chance to use your
> camera?'
> How did you work that out with them?  Did they get one too?
> columns in pop photo 1968-75 will be in your
> library, i hope. it is called "simon says." there is reading matter, but
> not panoramic camera, back to 1956. there are 1.6 million fawcett books
> out there i wrote all, part, or edited. fyi, robert riger used hulcher
> sequence cameras before i did. he was doing really great sports stuff.

"
I would love to read your life story flavored with your photos and scattered
with
bits of technical information.  It is nice to find another dimension to your
dynamic
and somewhat overwhelming personality.  You are bigger than life.  I would
love
to hear more.  perhaps Mitch could write it for you.  You have given him so
much.
Perhaps he could give us you -- in a book!  Mitch?

Now,  sometimes you guys sound like my kids when they are bored - at each
other's throats.  So, take a break.  Here is a joke I found on a website
called
Online Truth.  I may subscribe to it. Must think about it.  Subscribing-not
the joke.

The Amish and The Elevator)
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost
everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could
move apart and back together again. The boy asked his father, "What is this,
Father?" The father [never having seen an elevator] responded "Son, I have
never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is." While the
boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair
rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the
lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and
his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light
up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The
father said to his son, "Go get your mother."

                                                                    rambling
muse

hey, if you can speak of yourself in 3rd person, i can be the rambling muse.
 it is a prayer Simon.