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Post by John Parry on Jun 9, 2010 16:40:43 GMT -5
Ouch - reading that it sounded quite condescending, and I didn't mean to sound like that at all. Sorry.
Best Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 9, 2010 16:35:29 GMT -5
Hi Katherine
Excuse the other members - there's a bit of a feeding frenzy going on at the moment! No, I'm sorry - I'm not sure what that camera is. When that was made, manufacturers bought lenses from separate lens manufacturers, and shutters from separate shutter manufacturers, and each manufacturer put their own name on their own part. Unless you can find some kind of a name on the body of the camera, you'll have to rely on somebody recognising it, and MIK is probably your best bet. (Sorry if that sounds condescending MIK!).
If you're hoping it's going to be worth something, sorry. A few quid to a collector, in which case don't even try to do it up - you could do more harm than good.
But don't give up - post some of your photo's with whatever camera you've got - mobile phone? We love to see them on here...
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 8, 2010 18:17:40 GMT -5
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Post by John Parry on Jun 8, 2010 15:32:07 GMT -5
There are probably a higher proportion of people in Cumbria with firearms than anywhere else in the country Rachel, and the vast majority are used responsibly (although if you own a dog you'd be well advised to keep it firmly on a lead at lambing time).
The problems arise when mental health issues are involved. A lot of people commit suicide using their shotguns when they become depressed (probably the most selfish kind of suicide of all - as its almost invariably their loved ones who have to find them).
And oddly enough, very few people when filling in their firearms application put as their reason for applying "Because I have a borderline personality disorder with acute paranoia and antisocial tendencies".... Now that would be a cry for help!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 3, 2010 17:10:01 GMT -5
Ah...
Didn't make it to the loo Ron. Eventually I got out of the car and pee'd at the side of the road. Turned round and there were about ten other guys doing exactly the same thing. They'd just been waiting for someone to break first.
I could just imagine their wives saying "That's disgusting", and the guys unbuttoning their flies and saying "To hell with that"!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 3, 2010 4:11:23 GMT -5
Daveh
One day, a long time ago, (before TV continued all night) we had a long hot summer. Last thing at night, Granada TV ran a 10 minute slot called "The Lunar Appreciation Society"
They had John Lawrie ("We're all doomed!") reciting "Oh Mighty Bridge o'er the River Tay". I've never laughed so much in my life. I met somebody years later who'd been in the studio audience, and he said John Lawrie put so much into the recitation that he collapsed at the end and had to be resuscitated on the stage.
Fond memories - and it led me to become a founder member of the "Gosforth & District Lunar Appreciation Society".
We're all loonies!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 2, 2010 18:29:44 GMT -5
I got back to my accomodation at 11.30pm tonight, having passed 5 crime scenes - 4 of them murder scenes. As you sit there waiting for the only road to where you're going to re-open, you're thinking "They know who did this - why are they bothering?" It's so they don't miss a thing, and they'll hopefully learn what makes a lunatic like this tick.
But when you're bursting for a pee...
A bad day in Cumbria...
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 1, 2010 16:51:18 GMT -5
Mickey
You know my thinking on the subject - there's no way either of those would have worked in B&W, although I accept that the mind would have 'reconstructed' the colours in the prism effect. A lovely shot.
Gene
You have a great eye for what works - and the patience to wait until it does!
I'm sorry we couldn't get together when I was over there, I passed your neck of the woods several times!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on Jun 1, 2010 16:35:28 GMT -5
This kind of glass Daveh? or this? Only joking - you're not a million miles from me. Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on May 26, 2010 16:00:55 GMT -5
But didn't the DOF preview button star high in the advertising? I couldn't see much point but it at least was an indication that the lens was opening and closing as per...
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on May 26, 2010 15:12:41 GMT -5
Didn't you have that hat on your Avatar once before Gene? But that would be back in the 'olden days' when things were so much dimmer... LOL
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on May 18, 2010 17:21:13 GMT -5
First glance - I thought "Oh yes, some of Bob's Konica/Fuji combinations". Not a damn - Mamiya/Fuji combinations!
Of course, the next question has to be "What scanner are you using?"
No I'm joking Bob, great (and vivid!) pictures. Well done!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on May 18, 2010 17:06:21 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with a naval base in Idaho Wayne - both Switzerland and the Vatican had merchant fleets, and I have fond memories of our ship's voyages to Tibet...
Regards - John
ps - True about Switzerland and the Vatican !!
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Post by John Parry on May 13, 2010 8:36:57 GMT -5
Experimental? Looks pretty main-stream to me!
Regards - John
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Post by John Parry on May 11, 2010 18:03:27 GMT -5
Ah forget it - the weather's due to the atomic testing...
Were the old harbingers of doom right? Is somebody testing atomic bombs and not telling anyone else?
That Icelandic volcano has belched out more greenhouse gases than the whole population of the world has managed in the last ten years.
And I was scraping ice off my car this morning, in the middle of May. As I think I've mentioned previously, my favourite theory is the one that says that the onset of the next Ice Age is just being held off by global warming!
Regards - John
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