You are an idiot, Bill. What I said and you know damn well what I meant, is that saying you have been doing something for x years means nothing, there are many who learn everything they know about it the first two weeks on the job and never learn another thing after that. But the are the first to said, "You can not tell mean anything about this, I have been doing it for twenty years". In fact you can not tell them anything about it because they do not want to know any more than they already do. Hence my BS detector goes off when someone makes a statement like that.
You know a lot about photo technology, not because you have been in the business 25 years, but because you are interested in what you are doing. And probably would know almost as much if you only had a couple of years experience. The fact is I probably don't know much more about anything than I would learn in a couple of years, but usually I find out that after a couple of weeks on any new job I know more than maybe one or two other workers there. Yeah, man, I have been doing photography since 1952, do I know more than someone who has applied himself seriously to learning everything he can for a couple of years? Hell no! Oh, I know a lot about things that no one pays any attention to anymore, but what you need to know today? No way. Same thing with computers, I learned to service them in the AF back in 1960-63. So I have been in computers for 45 years. Do I know more than someone currently in the field that seriously gives a shit about what he is doing? Hell no! But I bet he knows nothing about mechanical analog computers <GRIN!>. So, Bill, you can not tell me nothing, I have been around 63 years and have forgotten most of what I knew when I was 16, when I knew everything. Like you do today... - William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Roberts" > Subject: Re: a flower for Shel - GDG > > > >> The lab/camera shop at which I worked a couple of years ago tended to >> support the "babies as most popular subject matter" theory. The owner >> said their prime customer was a woman with a baby stroller. In fact, >> there was a children's clothing store just a few doors down and when it >> went out of business the lab saw a major decline in volume. >> > > I did something like 25 years in the lab industry. Greywolf will say this > won't count for anything, since he doesn't believe in knowledge gained by > experience over time, but my observation was babies and children as the big > volume subject, with pets as a not so close second. > Note this is on the amateur side of the business. > The pro side is weddings as the big volume subject by a huge margin. > > William Robb > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
