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Subject: [OM] Old and in the way
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:34:18 -0500
The crap in the basement has long since passed critical mass, so, 
at the urging (not quite nagging, not just yet) of the lady of the 
house, I spent an hour or so this morning digging through some old 
photo-related stuff way over in the darkest corner.  It was there 
that I came across my three old, not-looked-at-in-20-years-or-more 
Kodak Reference Handbooks: No. 1, "Black-and-White Picture 
Taking;" No. 2, "Black-and-White Processing and Printing," and No. 
3, "Kodak Color Handbook - Materials, Processes, Techniques."

In a fit of nostalgia, I opened the color handbook to the back 
section behind the tab labeled "Notes" to see what pearls of 
wisdom I had recorded in the distant past, and there I found, 
neatly hole-punched and inserted into the binder, complete 
instructions sheets from a series of Ektachrome processing kits.  
There were, in descending order, E-4 instructions, dated 6/73; E-3 
instructions, dated 5/59, and, most depressing, E-2 instructions, 
dated 8/56.

I now realize I really am older than dirt.  Have I been squinting 
at the world through a viewfinder or watching it upside down on a 
ground glass for half a century?  Why am I still doing this?  Has 
my learning curve gone completely flat?  Why don't I have a life?  
Will it be film or digital in the great beyond?  Should I care?

It was just too, too depressing down there, so I came upstairs, 
got a cold one out of the fridge.  I'm feeling a little better 
now.  It's a pretty, sunny day here, bright blue sky, heading for 
the 50's on the F. scale (sorry, you folks in the frigid north!), 
and so I think I'll wander outside and shoot something.  I may 
even do it with a camera, possibly even an OM of one sort or 
another.

Walt

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"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing 
than he needs." -- Mark Twain (defining the cause of Zuikoholism a 
century ago) 


 
                   


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