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« on: August 10, 2005, 05:02:01 PM » |
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connealy
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2005, 05:20:55 PM » |
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Nice find, and fine images. I've got the Model 8, which is identical except for a hot shoe. Someone snipped off the handle, as seems to be the case on yours as well. I turned mine into a pinhole somewhat reluctantly as it made very sharp images. Luckily, I don't think I did any damage to the lens mount, so I can go back to the original configuration some time if needed.
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Glenn Thoreson
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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2005, 09:19:13 PM » |
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I always wonder what happened to the people that the camera was put away and forgotten.
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Glenn from Wyoming
"I reject your reallity and substitute my own"
( Adam Savage )
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Gene M
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2005, 06:43:46 AM » |
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That's the mystery that accompanies all found films.......
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Jon Stark
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2005, 08:48:13 AM » |
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"I think the trappings of death were more important in America when this photo was taken."
Gene- interesting comment. My Mom died a few weeks ago (90 and ill and not unexpected). The very same afternoon Dad started obsessing about what kind of gravestone to place on her grave - we didn't even have the funeral planned yet. It must be a generational thing. In contrast, last time I was responsible for these things (death of Significant Other in 1995) it took me 2 years to get a gravestone on the grave - it just didn't seem very important.
BTW, I loved your found film threads on p-net and am glad to find them over here, as I think I'm done with p-net now (another story.)
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Gene M
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2005, 09:34:10 AM » |
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I know what you mean. Memorials take place in the heart.
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2005, 11:30:09 AM » |
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Gene, your photos and the writings that go with them are always poignant. Another well done presentation. It always impresses me how you get the most from the dime-store cameras.
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Conrad P.
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2005, 05:03:56 PM » |
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Memorials certainly should take place in the heart. I could never understand how a large slab of marble stone can bring closure. As for how film gets left behind in cameras and lives of the user, so many possiblities.
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Jon Stark
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2005, 01:40:51 PM » |
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I'm not the only person who's struggled with words (here and on photo.net) to express how poignantly Gene's found film work touches the heart. There's something quite otherworldly about it. I think prose fails and you need to use poetry to express this (but I'm no poet.)
Many, many others have already made this point, but I'll re-state: an impending tragedy with digital photography will be the absence of permanent visual artifacts - no shoeboxes full of old photos.
(Well, I'm doing my part to make sure the next generation has plenty of silver-based images to paw through.......now I didn't say mine were any good, but there's lots of 'em!)
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Gene M
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2005, 01:45:11 PM » |
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I delighted to find that so many of you see these photographs the same way that I do.
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