TIRED OF BW FILM PRICE 'EXCUSES'

tomalophicon · Jul 8, 2011

lxdude said:
Do you mean drivel? Because a pissing contest can't be won with dribble!
Though racing contests have been won by Dick Trickle...

Awww. Mine just had a 352.

Dick Trickle, what a name. I hope he got his prostate checked regularly.

2F/2F · Jul 8, 2011

NOW this thread is headed in the right direction! FINALLY!

Steve Smith · Jul 8, 2011

Sirius Glass said:
Everyone sing!
"The wheel on the bus go round, round, round,
The wheel on the bus go round, round, round,
..."

Just one wheel or all of them?

Steve.

Leigh Youdale · Jul 8, 2011

2F/2F said:
NOW this thread is headed in the right direction! FINALLY!

I must have missed something. Have they opened a new forum heading for pedants?

Photo Engineer · Jul 8, 2011

Well, I hate to do this, but.....

My original statements were that I got 7.5 mpg with my 65 Mustang and that the mechanics that I had work on my car complained bitterly about how difficult it was to keep the carburetor in the Mustang in tune. These are both true. I kept track of my gas consumption then and still do today. I was on the floor with these mechanics as they told me why I had continual problems.

I used to step on the gas and have the car move forward only to have it suddenly just about stall. The mechanics told me that this was common to the Mustang.

I saw this, felt this and heard this in 1965 - 1968 while owning the car.

I cannot imagine anyone making this up! I lived through it. And, as I wrote it, I thought of how to link this to an understanding of why film manufacture is so difficult and expensive which I did. And, it involves a POV acquired from being there which otherwise can lead to many differing points of view.

Today, our POV of the Mustang may be quite different after 50 years additional experience with this car. All I can do is report what I lived through with the car and with photographic film and paper production.

PE

Sirius Glass · Jul 8, 2011

Steve Smith said:
Just one wheel or all of them?

Steve.

Yeah, them too.

David Lyga · Jul 8, 2011

I must state, unequivocally, that I never thought such topical divergence would manifest so completely. - David Lyga.

Aristophanes · Jul 8, 2011

David Lyga said:
I must state, unequivocally, that I never thought such topical divergence would manifest so completely. - David Lyga.

Due to the topic switch, that's "manifold".

Sirius Glass · Jul 8, 2011

or morph

This is just what old farts do when they have too much time on their hands. Why back in the day ...

mwdake · Jul 8, 2011

I had a Morris Marina, it ran great until some idiot dropped a piano on it.

Was it them guys from Top Gear?

Aristophanes · Jul 8, 2011

Sirius Glass said:
or morph

This is just what old farts do when they have too much time on their hands. Why back in the day ...

...I had to walk 40 miles in the snow to buy Rodinal 'cause my 65 Mustang ran out of gas and had vapor lock. You don't know tough times, youngster!

Photo Engineer · Jul 8, 2011

WE had to walk to grade school! No school buses back then. I'll tell you, you kids had it easy.

PE

tkamiya · Jul 8, 2011

In Snow! Up Hill! Both ways!!!

Sirius Glass · Jul 8, 2011

tkamiya said:
In Snow! Up Hill! Both ways!!!

And we did not have money for hiking boots so we wrapped our bare feet in barbed wire to walk in the ice and snow.

Photo Engineer · Jul 8, 2011

Weeeel, we lived about 300 ft from the school, and it was milder weather in western PA. Hmmm, it was only uphill one way. However, in 5th grade on, I had to walk several miles over level ground.

PE

Sirius Glass · Jul 8, 2011

The snow was deeper then. These young'uns don't realize that the snow was up to my chest when I was five years old. It has not been that high since, dagnabit!

bobby novatron · Jul 9, 2011

Man, I just can't get over these people complaining about the price of film from way-back-when.

When I was a kid, I had to MAKE my own film! First, I had to prospect a claim and find some veins of silver in the nearby hillside. Then I'd crush and mill the ore, and smelt the elemental silver in my home-made crucible.

After that, I had to use some harsh chemicals to brew up some photo-sensitive silver nitrates and silver halides. Let me tell you, it was no fun fumbling around in the dark, wearing a leather apron and diving-bell helmet -- those fumes from the steam-powered halide evaporator were just awful! If you got the formula wrong by a dram or two, the whole thing would suddenly fluoresce and reach criticality. Or maybe that was the home-made atomic pile I made -- perhaps my memory is getting confused.

At any rate, making my own film was a real chore. After I brewed up the photo-sensitive emulsion, I had to make my own film substrate / acetate by chewing on a ball of tree sap until it emulsified enough that I could pound it out into a sheet using a smooth rock. After it dried in the sun, I had to burnish the cut sheets with sand and sheep's brains. I didn't mind the smoothing so much -- except for the smell. The sheep's brains tended to go rank after a few hours.

Well, those were definitely the good ol' days! Excuse me while I dump the jpeg's from my dSLR onto my hard drive...

tomalophicon · Jul 9, 2011

Well when I was a kid I had to make my own digital cameras. That was hard!

mwdake · Jul 9, 2011

When I was a kid those little instruction sheets inside the film box were still in Latin.

michaelbsc · Jul 9, 2011

Oh yeah? Well my mother used to get upset when we would draw on the cave walls while Dad was out trying to catch a Woolly Mammoth for dinner.

Sirius Glass · Jul 9, 2011

Back in the day, the ex would ramble on about nothing, much like this thread.
Then I declared myself a free agent.
I got the two children.
The ex got my dog.

The dog was really pissed!

michaelbsc · Jul 9, 2011

Sirius Glass said:
The ex got my dog.

The dog was really pissed!

Some "best friend" you turned out to be.

Sirius Glass · Jul 9, 2011

michaelbsc said:
Some "best friend" you turned out to be.

Not my choice. My attorney objected but the judge overrule the objection stating that the Eight Amendment

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

did not extend to property, which includes animals and livestock!!!

lxdude · Jul 9, 2011

When that judge gets to hell Cujo's gonna bite his nuts off.

Sirius Glass · Jul 9, 2011

TIRED OF BW FILM PRICE 'EXCUSES'

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