This is HILARIOUS... (as Paul Harvey used to say, "The Rest of the Story"). I emailed my Getty photographer son-in-Law ( http://www.bigstormpicture.com and http://www.bigstormpicture.com/blog and http://backingwinds.blogspot.com ) about my Minolta 110 SLR "find" and my "big plans" for it. (He's as big a nerd as I am in many ways, so I thought he might appreciate it.) He emails me back:
"Hah, that's funny -- that's probably my old Minolta 110 if you got it from that thrift store. :) I had it in a box and planned to try shooting with it, but once I realized that the film had to be sent out to develop (unless you shot BW and did it yourself) and that there are virtually no ways to scan the film well due to it's teeny tiny size, I chucked it in the thrift store box. But it's one of the cooler looking cameras I've ever seen, cool enough that I wished it shot 35!" When I responded with "You're kidding. You did this recently?" he said, "Nope, it's true! Jazz & I were cleaning out the closet and I when I checked the Ebay value of the camera I figured it wasn't worth selling. I'd have just given it to you outright but I didn't think you'd have any need for a 110 camera. :) It's like they say, one man's junk is another man's treasure!" True Dat! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
