bill schwab
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Man... This is one whacked-out thread.
Man... This is one whacked-out thread.Aggie (remember
Aggie?) once laid into one of my subjects with a harangue (untrue)
that she had breast implants, and she, Aggie, knew this for a fact
because she, Aggie, had been shopping for a pair and knew them
when she saw them. Too much.
Man... This is one whacked-out thread.
Now, here in the US and Canada, it's a three-day, end of Summer, holiday weekend. One last chance us guys to head to the beach and ogle some scantily-clad hotties!
Oh, and guys, "don't forget the Kodak".
Anyway, this lens was the most clumsy thing I've ever seen. To set the exposure you had to take a more or less manual meter reading, set a ring on the lens to your desired F-stop, focus on your subject, then turn a second ring to set the real f-stop, then shoot.
You did sound VERY serious - and authorative when you cited a report from the Center for Disease Control.
We have a few Fishermen here and in Gloucester, MA (origin of "The Perfect Storm). They have largely abandoned their intuition (which was, all in all, surprisingly accurate) for satellite and NOA.
This was back in the late 1960s, a more innocent time, and swimwear of those days was not nearly as revealing as it is now. We just kinda laughed this off as a "boys will be boys" thing.
Aggie (remember
Aggie?) once laid into one of my subjects with a harangue (untrue)
that she had breast implants, and she, Aggie, knew this for a fact
because she, Aggie, had been shopping for a pair and knew them
when she saw them. Too much.
Sanders
LOL! This very much reminds me of days gone by when my brother, one of those who got me interested in photography, had a Pentax HV (a pre-Spotmatic one with a non-TTL meter mounted above the prism) and this huge honking cheap 300 or 400mm lens from the Spiratone shop on 31st in the city. He called this his "beach lens" and he and a couple of his buds would go to the beach, set up a "blind" behind a huge beach umbrella, take along a thermos jug of "kool-aid" (yeah, right, lol) and they would enjoy the scenery and the refreshments.
This was back in the late 1960s, a more innocent time, and swimwear of those days was not nearly as revealing as it is now. We just kinda laughed this off as a "boys will be boys" thing.They were, of course, too shy to actually approach and get to know any of the girls they were admiring.
Anyway, this lens was the most clumsy thing I've ever seen. To set the exposure you had to take a more or less manual meter reading, set a ring on the lens to your desired F-stop, focus on your subject, then turn a second ring to set the real f-stop, then shoot.
The funny thing is, sad thing, actually, if somebody would do this today, they would probably be arrested or at least confronted.
Yes, this was called a "preset" lens, because you preset the f:stop, but had another ring to open the iris quickly to focus. It made it easy to design long teles with interchangeable heads, without having to set up the auto aperture linkages.
Komura made them for Bronica (I have a 300-400-500 set), Nikon, and probably other mounts. I wouldn't be too surprised if they were OEM'ed by Komura for Spiratone.
Bill- the moderators deleted said death threat.
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Further, I find it odd that people are stating that everyone has a right to post whatever pictures they want to (regardless of whether they are trying to provoke the membership), but must show some sort of restraint when it comes to commenting in those same galleries.
Great memories - sounds a bit like my days at West End 2 at Jones Beach on Long Island, NY!
It's kind of what I meant in the earlier post about this site being a bit of a photographers senior citizen center. Imagine, we've got here a bunch of "born to be wild" baby boomers now turning into a bunch of scolding "old farts". Well, anyway, that's what this thread reads like!
If there's one thing I promised myself years ago, it was that when I became an old fart, I would remember not to act like an old fart!
This whole thread has been dominated by a bunch of scolding old farts who don't remember that "wink wink, nudge nudge" is a part of life!
Our gang used to do Rockaway ("Rock-rock Rockaway Beach") and the place my brother did his thing was not too far from the old Playland amusement park. (RIP Atom Smasher!)
You really needed a car to do Jones. Rockaway was a fairly easy train ride and we thought of it as a bit more upscale than Coney.
People are getting very nostalgic for Coney now that they are gonna make it over, but there were a lot of fun times at Playland and Palisades and such. (Anybody remember Freedomland?)
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We do, however, cross quite a few value boundaries. I daresay we have a good mix of all political views, all lifestyles, and all belief systems. (Is "good" the correct term here?)Just look at the thread on the GLBT thing if you want some insight here.
Oh well, so it goes ... (and so do I)
OK, I'll accept that you saw these comments. And I agree they would be excessive and inappropriate for a well mannered community. But your last statement, "It's not your fault for not knowing that. You'd have had to have been here.", either means that the comments were made more than two and half years ago, or was just plain rude.
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Sounds like we stomped the same grounds back in the day,George.Yeah!
Remember: "Come on Mom, come on Dad, take my hand and let's go to Freedomland!" ?
I'd like to comment as a female to this line. I have been uncomfortable with the trend in the nudes seen here to be 90% young, thin to anorexic, sexualized objects shot by men. I have seen nudes I liked, and I posted a few of my own just to break up a string of nudes that was going on at the time with scrawny young women. I'm not a prude, am comfortable on clothing optional beaches, or hot tubbing sans suits with friends. I've done a lot of nude and semi-nude photography, but I would be uncomfortable posting most of it here. I feel it would be breaking the trust I developed with the women (and their partners/families) to post those images on such a public forum. There are many of those images on display in my office, with their consent, and that feels fine. I guess it is the possibility of "nudge nudge wink wink" that keeps me from posting any of those images here. Sly
Still waiting for them to "fix up" Coney.
Also still waiting for the Second Avenue Subway!
32 pages...of what? This is worse than the guff I recieved and heard in art school, and one of the reasons I didn't finish.
32 pages...of what? This is worse than the guff I recieved and heard in art school, and one of the reasons I didn't finish.
OK Dave, here ya go ...
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