Skip
The next question is .... What did he do with the rest of the box of
floppies? data or door stops?
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Williams" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Expensive camera, cheap film???
> I'll never understand the people who will buy outdated film, gray market
stuff that's been stored who-knows-where at who-knows-how-hot, or a brick at
the camera show for some "deal" price. Then they take it on the trip of a
lifetime to Africa and bitch when all their pictures have color shifts due
to improper storage. But they'll say that spending an extra $500 on a
higher-end body will make them a better photographer.
>
> This also reminds me of the people who bought SD 3.5" floppy disks and a
tool to notch the corner to fool the drives into thinking that they were
High-Density disks. They spend hours and hours doing work, and then trust
it to something that they saved $.50 on? I actually had a manager of mine
10 years ago come to me and beg me to retrieve his spreadsheet off a floppy
that was unreadable. It was a notched floppy that he had gotten in a
"computer show" box. This disk was the SOLE repository of the project
accounting and tracking for a $6 million consulting job he was running! He
ended up recreating it from the printouts over about 20 hours.
>
> Skip
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> >Subject: [OM] Re: Expensive camera, cheap film???
> > From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:32:50 -0800
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >>From: Albert <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>The logic eludes me greatly... Someone explain it to me.. I have
> >>cognitive dissonance..
> >
> >Sometimes my students balk at spending $91 during the class for seven
rolls of Elitechrome and processing during the eight-week class.
> >
> >I then show them some of my Kodak 5247 sob stories from the 70's ("slides
AND prints at the same time -- cool" NOT!), along side some Kodachrome from
the same period, and tell them, "I've NEVER looked at one of my pictures and
said, 'Gee, I wish I'd shot that on cheaper film!'".
> >
> >Although, I've OFTEN said the opposite...
> >
> >--
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> >: Buy My Step Van! <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/van>
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