On Jun 6, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > paul stenquist wrote: > >> On Jun 6, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >> >>> Bob W wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> [...] Sat for two hours before I >>>>> could get a flatbed out there. Paid him $175 to haul the Jeep 25 miles >>>>> to my place and drop it in the driveway. Figure I'll still come out >>>>> ahead by beating the wheels off myself and buying two tires at a >>>>> discount tire store. If he had taken it to a Detroit shop, they would >>>>> have raped me, and each employee would probably have taken a turn. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Nasty, but at least you can still sit down... >>>> >>>> >>> Nasty, but did you get any pictures? sounds painful indeed... especially >>> to the wallet >>> >>> >> I brought my Leica, in respect to Mr. Frank of course. So I might have pics. >> I did shoot my car tilting toward the fast land on the shoulder with other >> cars whizzing by. I believe I also have a shot of Ken and Bill in the Diego >> Rivera room. Of course its film, so one never knows. Especially since it's a >> roll of Portra 160 that expired in 2004. But it's been in the freezer, so >> it's probably okay. >> >> Bill brought his new M7 as well. (We did a comparison: to no one's surprise, >> the iiif RD and M7 differ greatly.:-) In any case, Bill snapped a few pics >> as well. Nice camera, BTW. He has a Zeiss 35/2 and a Summicron 50/2. Fun >> stuff. (I brought my Summicron 50/2.5 Collapsible and Summaron 35/3.5. ). So >> we had half a century of 'crons on hand. All those on hand outdated the >> lenses by a considerable amount. >> Paul >> > I knew you'd get a pic! I always used taking shots to be a sort of way of > dealing with a problem - though I also found when I got the > film developed that those taken in a crisis were often rather "soft" in > focus :-) > Well, I was quite calm, just massively annoyed:-). And I focused on the headlight rim with the rangefinder, so it should be in focus. I will probably never finish the roll, so I should just dump it off at Costco. Paul
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