RE: French film
Lasse, what do you mean ? Anyway, no wonder the French can't keep their films clean. I remember their toilets... Lasse. Cheers, Cyril Paris, France - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: French film
Cyril, Thanks for asking. The intention of my message was a play with absurdity. Tom R. in his original message referred to the common notion of French film as dirty movies, that is - movies of sexual or pornographic nature. On purpose I pretended not to fully understand this, but rather in my response used the word dirty in it's lteral sense of not-clean (or rather did a double entendre in commenting how a dirty movie would cause a real mess to clean up.) In my line of reasoning, in my message there simply was no thing like any un-clean French movies or negatives to be cleaned whatsoever. It was, at least as far as my intentions go, purely a joke, in which I tried to make a fool of myself. (Maybe I was being too successfull in this.) Therefor, referring to French toilets at the end of my message, had, at least to me, absolutely no rational meaning at all, certainly not in regards to the hygienic practices of the French. However, there actually was a reference to a widely spread notion, or saying, in the Nordic countries, about the type of French public toilets that you at least earlier could run into, and which would be the topic of discussion among any Scandinavian travellers to France. (Now, I haven't visited France since the 70:s, why this saying about French toilets already may be old and forgotten today. Sorry, in that case for bringing it up.) (As an aside I can tell you that the toilets in France also used to be the topic of jokes a shared with a former French girlfriend of mine, purely on a friendly basis. I realise now, that not speaking (joking) directly to a French person may have obscured the friendly intentions of my joke. Sorry about that.) But, as I tried to explain, since I already, as a joke, had pretended to misunderstand the reference to dirty movies I thought that it was obvious that no one could take my words about toilets seriously. I was putting on, or playing, a role, of someone that's not me. (At least I think it's not me, but who the hell knows such things for sure...). If I nevertheless caused you, or any other French members offence, I apologize. To all others too, sorry about a (yet another possibly) poor joke. Lasse - Original Message - From: Cyril MARION [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: RE: French film Lasse, what do you mean ? Anyway, no wonder the French can't keep their films clean. I remember their toilets... Lasse. Cheers, Cyril Paris, France - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: French film
I hope that we have not become so politically correct that we can't tolerate an occasional joke about our differences and perceptions. dan Lasse Karlsson wrote: If I nevertheless caused you, or any other French members offence, I apologize.To all others too, sorry about a (yet another possibly) poor joke. -- Daniel J. Matyola mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stanley, Powers Matyola mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite203, 1170 US Highway 22 East http://danmatyola.com Bridgewater, NJ 08807 (908)725-3322 fax: (908)707-0399 - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
OT: French film
I noticed that Midwest Photo got in some French bw film -- 4x5, 5x7, 35mm (Wish I could remember the name Anyone know anything about this stuff? All I've gathered is that it's a high-silver-content formula and gives that classic appearance Collin -- --- Get over it Dr Laura -- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe, go to http://wwwpdmlnet and follow the directions Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pugkomkonorg
Re: OT: French film
It's Bergger 200 (there are two product numbers, one for 35mm and the other for sheet film). Do a search on the name and you'll find a lot of information about it. I've been playing with it in 35mm format, although I've not used it much, and have not yet reached any conclusions about it Collin Brendemuehl wrote: I noticed that Midwest Photo got in some French bw film -- 4x5, 5x7, 35mm. (Wish I could remember the name. Anyone know anything about this stuff? All I've gathered is that it's a high-silver-content formula and gives that classic appearance. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: French film
Collin Brendemuehl wrote: I noticed that Midwest Photo got in some French bw film -- 4x5, 5x7, 35mm This seemed quite funny to me Last year I attended a portrait workshop in a photo school here in Roma and the guy teaching it was a pro in the advertising field He also shot a portraits, of course, and he told us he often used to shoot a few faked rolls off his MedF camera at the beginning of a session, especially with green models or plain people not accustomed to posing The signal to his assistance was to load french film, he said, since there is none, he just handed the used mags to the assistants taking another one and had them staging the loading and unloading for the subject's sake When the subject finally relaxed he swithced back to the real stuff Ciao, Flavio - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe, go to http://wwwpdmlnet and follow the directions Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pugkomkonorg
Re: French film
Is it just me, or did someone else think this was a thread about dirty movies when they saw the subject? Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto - Original Message - From: Flavio Minelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:17 PM Subject: Re: French film Collin Brendemuehl wrote: I noticed that Midwest Photo got in some French bw film -- 4x5, 5x7, 35mm. ... This seemed quite funny to me. Last year I attended a portrait workshop in a photo school here in Roma and the guy teaching it was a pro in the advertising field. He also shot a portraits, of course, and he told us he often used to shoot a few faked rolls off his MedF camera at the beginning of a session, especially with green models or plain people not accustomed to posing. The signal to his assistance was to load french film, he said, since there is none, he just handed the used mags to the assistants taking another one and had them staging the loading and unloading for the subject's sake. When the subject finally relaxed he swithced back to the real stuff... Ciao, Flavio - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
