Re: 6x17 on 4x5

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 30 Dec 99 at 1:21, Amanda Chase wrote:

> Simon says:
> 
> > i was in cairo in 1965 working as a special on julian blaustein's "khartoum."
> the unit  photographers with the five fps nikons complained to me that it
> was unfair what i was doing.  i was using my 10fps high speed (6x12cm)
> simon/wide which did up to 10fps, 70mm, 1440th second or less, bracketed
> during run and had 100ft roll of film. hulcher built this for me in 1964.
> price of  mods equaled camera itself. to the unit photog i replied "all
> right, i'll hold it  down to five fps."  it was the right thing to do.
> 
> In my neighborhood, you don't have to look far to find one of those stickers
> showing a boy, obviously based on Bill Watterson's Calvin, urinating on the
> logo of another car manufacturer. Mostly you see "piss on Ford" stickers on
> Chevies, and vice versa. These appear alongside equally clever and
> provocative stickers, such as "no fear" and "bad boys club." Hoo yah.
> 
> If you really want to show off your power and prowess, you can probably
> still get hot-rod flame decals from Epson and stick them on your simon/wide.
> Otherwise, you're wasting bandwidth that would be better used for sincere
> requests and helpful responses about photography.

Mmm....me thinks those unsubscribes were the more elegant solution.

Btw, you remind me of that snobby Dutch girl in the French Alps, who
thought she could get away with the remark 'Very convenient,
standing in the middle of this road' in Dutch, while passing me on this 3m
wide skiing track....I might not look Dutch while fiddling around
with my Noblex 150 on a monopod (tip: front and hip pockets of
jackets make a perfect bottom locator!), but my reply that she ought
to consider a diet certainly was. Lovely that silence up in the
mountains....:-))

--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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