Black limited from Nippon Foto in Tokyo, Japan.... There you go guys.......
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>From a broke guy....;)
l8r,
Douglas E Harmon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/~genius91/
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas E Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: OT: A Leica, a Pentax, a Luger, a colt, and an IBM
keyboard......(extremely long)
: Hey all,
: I stopped by one of my co-workers yesterday. I stopped by mainly to
get
: thier computer running again. A little windows glitch.... Was getting
ready
: to leave as we walked out to my car, we were talking about the job. He's
: looking up at the sky at a star. Real bright and unmoving, we weren't sure
: what is was. I start to talk about my brother in law and his telescope,
and
: get onto the subject of me wanting to take pictures with it. We now get
into
: a conversation on cameras, I let him know about the K2 I just recently
: aquired to hook up to the telescope. We start talking about cameras and we
: get to talking about Leica, and how really swiss watch like they are, and
I
: am comparing it to my Pentaxi. he laughs and says that that is like
: comparing a Luger to a Colt. I laugh, too true. Any of you that has held
: both knows what we are talking about. "So you use Pentax..." He informs me
: that he was never a Pentax fan, and used to have all Nikon. He had a FTN,
: with a 300mm this a 50 macro that, you get the idea. He lets me know that
: the last time his daughter was in town he gave her the whole setup, except
: for some extention tubes and bellows that he just found. I ask him why he
: got out of it and he says, he got burned out on the whole thing. He used
to
: work at a Barret, or Bennet Camera (can't remember which right now) in
: Miami. He started off in the lab and proceded on to be sales manager.
During
: this time he had the task of quailty control and got to take any camera
and
: film in the place and shoot, under the guise of quality control. He said
: that there was a time everywhere he went he had his Nikon aqround his
neck.
: And then one day he just got burned out and quit taking pictures. He even
: goes on to say that he just recently threw away acouple of garbage bags
: full of pictures from that time. I tried to understand all this but, I
: really didn't want to get into it and took his "burned out" explanation.
As
: we keep talking he's telling me about the features of his camera,
: interchangable screens, veiwfinders, diopters, the operation of the match
: needle, and so on. While I mention the relationship to the LX, I'm
thinking
: how he could stand here and talk almost loveingly about this camera only
to
: have "burned out" on taking pictures, and given it away. I mean he's here
: talking about the how Nikon was first taken seriously. You know the
: photographer was taking pictures in Korea, and is developing the negs sees
a
: blotch on the neg and thinks the camera is crap. Only he keeps blowing it
up
: until you see the blotch isan army helocopter and read US ARMY on the
side.
: Don't know the merits of this story, but you get the point. It would be
like
: me giving away my fathers K1000 and Polaroid land camera, or my grand
: fathers Polaroids. I didn't understand it until I was at home at the
: keyboard. I thought about the time years ago that I had given this same
man
: an Atari system that I had grown out of. It was just sitting around
: collecting dust, having beed replaced by an IBM. In fact I was "burned
out"
: by then and wasn't even using the IBM. Now you have to understand that I
: have had various incarnations of the PC in my life since the early
eighties,
: a Timex Sinclair, TRS-80, two Color Computers(RS), Commodore, Atari, then
: IBM and clones til now. I of course was feeling nostalgic in the last
couple
: of years and remembering my favorite game, Alternate Reality from that
: system. I asked him if he still had it , and of course no. Not much you
can
: do with that in 1998. I remember telling myself how stupid I was for even
: giving it up in the first place. I have a feeling that he may one day call
: his daughter for a return, I just hope she doesn't get rid of it by then,
: because I know I will hear about it. "Why did you have to get talking
about
: cameras?" I gotta think this may happen, because of the way he was talking
: about it. As for where the IBM keyboard comes in..... I am typing on a
: plastic $65.00 dollar keyboard a Colt if you will. At work I have a circa
: 1986 IBM Keyboard, that I saved from the junk pile. This was the state of
: the art in keyboards. Metal chassis, heavy plastic body, heavy, big, and
: keys with switches that made an audible click. This was the Luger of the
: keyboards at $150.00 when new. And at that I will now go to e-bay to find
: one for my desk at the house. Take from this ramble what you will. And now
: that I have killed a good amount of bandwith by diseminating this to all
: PDMLers I bid you farewell.
:
: l8r,
: Douglas E Harmon
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/~genius91/
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