Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-13 Thread Igor Roshchin
Wed Jun 11 19:05:28 EDT 2014 Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Mark Roberts postmaster at robertstech.com wrote: My Spousal Unit watches true-crime shows on TV, and the law enforcement officers they interview are apparently paid by the syllable. My favorite redundancy

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Cottrell
My Spousal Unit watches true-crime shows on TV, and the law enforcement officers they interview are apparently paid by the syllable. My favorite redundancy from this evening's episode: It tested positive for male semen. Technically, sperm that carries a Y chromosome could be said to be male

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Igor Roshchin
Thank you, for the interesting document. Well, the Press Release you referenced is full of ... puffing up the cheaks. Together, both partners have a combined history of 146 years in the Photo Industry. Along those lines, PDML has combined photographic experience of over 500 years! Does that

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote: Thank you, for the interesting document. Well, the Press Release you referenced is full of ... puffing up the cheaks. Together, both partners have a combined history of 146 years in the Photo Industry. Along those

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Stanley Halpin
Apart from the lack of meaning in the sentence quoted, it includes one of those strange repetitive and redundant turns of phrase which really grates on my nerves. “Together, both partners have a combined history…” Lets deconstruct that. If they have a combined history of whatever, then it

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Igor Roshchin
Stan, yes, I saw that but decided that I shouldn't be too picky. :-) Back when I was a kid, there was a very popular program Radio-Nanny. They were discussing a bunch of different things, but occasionally they were discussing some grammar questions in a funny way. One time there was this

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Apart from the lack of meaning in the sentence quoted, it includes one of those strange repetitive and redundant turns of phrase which really grates on my nerves. “Together, both partners have a combined

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Mark Roberts
Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Apart from the lack of meaning in the sentence quoted, it includes one of those strange repetitive and redundant turns of phrase which really grates on my nerves. “Together, both

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: My Spousal Unit watches true-crime shows on TV, and the law enforcement officers they interview are apparently paid by the syllable. My favorite redundancy from this evening's episode: It tested positive for male

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Mark Roberts
Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: My Spousal Unit watches true-crime shows on TV, and the law enforcement officers they interview are apparently paid by the syllable. My favorite redundancy from this evening's episode: It tested

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: A simple straightforward phrasing would be: “The partners have a combined history…” If they are going to write meaningless twaddle, at least they could avoid bad writing. Consider the source. The kind of folks

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread P.J. Alling
You would miss the half the joy of deconstruction, in that case. On 6/11/2014 5:32 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote: Apart from the lack of meaning in the sentence quoted, it includes one of those strange repetitive and redundant turns of phrase which really grates on my nerves. “Together, both

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread P.J. Alling
On 6/11/2014 6:46 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Apart from the lack of meaning in the sentence quoted, it includes one of those strange repetitive and redundant turns of phrase which really grates on my nerves.

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-11 Thread Bill
On 11/06/2014 1:36 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Along those lines, PDML has combined photographic experience of over 500 years! Given the age of most of us, I suspect you could safely at a zero to that number. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Igor Roshchin
I was going to buy some inks and some Ilford Pearl paper, but found that the latter is discontinued (on Atlex, and everywhere else, at least in 5x7). So, I called Atlex, and they told me that Ilford (as a company, not just paper) is no more: it closed about a month ago. So, if you want to buy

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Roberts
Igor Roshchin wrote: I was going to buy some inks and some Ilford Pearl paper, but found that the latter is discontinued (on Atlex, and everywhere else, at least in 5x7). So, I called Atlex, and they told me that Ilford (as a company, not just paper) is no more: it closed about a month ago.

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Igor Roshchin
Tue Jun 10 13:11:52 EDT 2014 Mark Roberts wrote: Igor Roshchin wrote: I was going to buy some inks and some Ilford Pearl paper, but found that the latter is discontinued (on Atlex, and everywhere else, at least in 5x7). So, I called Atlex, and they told me that Ilford (as a

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Paul
Igor - Red River Paper sells three different versions of satin/pearl paper. Here's a comparison of the three from their web site. http://tinyurl.com/63x4phr They also have a Pearl Metallic... http://tinyurl.com/2c3hck2 -p On 6/10/2014 12:35 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Tue Jun 10 13:11:52

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Ann Sanfedele
:-( thanks for the heads up ann - Ilford and Oriental were my papers of choice back in my film days.. and the Ilford High gloss ink jet stuff - so sorry to hear this ann On 6/10/2014 12:30, Igor Roshchin wrote: I was going to buy some inks and some Ilford Pearl paper, but found that the

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Igor Roshchin
Paul, Thank you for the reference to the RR papers. Actually, right around the moment I was sending the message to PDML, I was checking your previous response to my quesiton about metallic papers, and checked out RR website for the pearl papers. I saw those satin papers. I am tempted to try

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Paul Ewins
Note that it is the digital company Ilford Imaging Switzerland that went under, not the analog business in the UK which is Harman Technology. Both use the Ilford brand name but they aren't otherwise connected. Ironically the digital business was what was thought to be the profitable half when

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread P.J. Alling
Harman, the company that bought the Ilford BW film and paper business, seems to be going strong. So it's just the company specializing in as inkjet papers based in Switzerland that has gone belly up. On 6/10/2014 12:30 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: I was going to buy some inks and some Ilford

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread P.J. Alling
Speaking of Harmon, makers of Ilford Photosensitive materials, they apparently also make Inkjet materials, which includes this, http://www.harman-inkjet.com/products/product.asp?n=85t=HARMAN+CRYSTALJET+ELITE in a Pearl finish. On 6/10/2014 12:30 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: I was going to buy

Re: Another one bites the dust -- Ilford

2014-06-10 Thread Morris Galloway
Ilford here? Ilford Where? Before we all know it, this Ilford mess will be as big as Aspirin, Nylon and the rest of that whole trademark imbroglio. As if that were not enough, here is the press release from C.R. Kennedy, mis-branded or mis-identified wrongly in another presser as C.R. K.