OK. Well, send me some prints! I promise not get any nose-prints on them.
;-)
Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Why hasn't anyone snapped this up at $1150.
> In a word, No. I've had Century and Crown Graphics for years, but
> it was just this past summer that I blew my OM-3Ti money on the
> Horseman and a couple of lenses. Now I'm too poor to buy a medium
> format scanner, though I've been looking at the new C*n*n Canoscan
> something or other. I confess, though, that everything I shoot
> with the medium format stuff is also shot with an Oly.
>
> Also, since PhotoPoint now appears to be finally and officially
> dead -- two months after I ponied up a year's membership fee,
> naturally -- I don't have anything anywhere for anybody to look at
> anyway. I just signed up with PhotoNet, so maybe when I get a
> scanner, I can post something. Of course, the difference between
> a 6x9 and a 35mm shot wouldn't be apparent on even the best
> computer screen. You really have to see the prints to tell the
> difference. I get a kick out of people getting closer and closer,
> sometimes with their nose nearly touching the print, because the
> great detail draws them in.
>
> Walt Wayman
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Mickey Trageser" <mickeytr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:41:49 -0500
>
> >Walt,
> >I really wanted to come back with a witty reply, but I came to the
> >realization that I'm just jealous. ... damn..
> >I really don't guess you'd want the shift, unless you wanted the
> capability
> >in a more compact package....
> >Got anything web-posted shot with the Horseman?
> >Mickey
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 3:31 PM
> >Subject: Re: [OM] Why hasn't anyone snapped this up at $1150.
> >
> >
> >> Or could it be because -- gasp! -- some of us don't want it? I
> >> shoot a lot of old buildings and landscapes, and for perspective
> >> correction and depth-of-field tricks, I use either a Century
> >> Graphic or a Horseman 985 with a 6x7cm or 6x9cm 120 back. I use
> >> my Olys for stuff that moves, or that may move, and for
> >> snapshots. If it ain't going nowhere, and if I'm not in a
> hurry,
> >> I prefer the larger format. Love those grainless, super-
> detailed
> >> 16x20 prints! To each his own.
> >>
> >> Walt Wayman
> >>
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