Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-12 Thread tom
On 12 Mar 2002 at 8:51, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > I'm currently printing a series of about 25 lovely images (not mine), > all shot with a Rebel on Fujicolor Superia 200, rated at 800 and > bleach-bypassed. They're just fantastic. Does this mean you left out a step of the C-41 process? What

Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-12 Thread Aaron Reynolds
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 09:00 AM, Bruce Rubenstein wrote: > When your rhetoric is reduced to a single sentence, "Spending money on > camera > equipment is consumerism when you buy Nikon and Canon, and isn't when > you buy > Pentax." is exactly what one gets. Bruce, I can put words in y

RE: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-12 Thread Rob Brigham
gt; From: Bruce Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 March 2002 14:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification > (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread) > > > When your rhetoric is reduced to a single sentence, "Spending >

Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-12 Thread Bruce Rubenstein
When your rhetoric is reduced to a single sentence, "Spending money on camera equipment is consumerism when you buy Nikon and Canon, and isn't when you buy Pentax." is exactly what one gets. No one here has been accused of consumerism because they bought a MZ-S, 645n system or expensive lenses. Yo

RE: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-12 Thread Paris, Leonard
--Original Message- From: Pål Audun Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread) Bruce wrote: >Spending money on camera equipment is consumerism

Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-11 Thread Bruce Rubenstein
Spending money on camera equipment is consumerism when you buy Nikon and Canon (because you're stupid), and isn't when you buy Pentax (because you're smart). Pal just wants the people on pnoto.net to be smarter. --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IAC, my comment was more generall

Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-11 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Just because something's "supposed to be" one way, doesn't mean in reality it is. IAC, since Photo.net seems to have a disposition towards certain brands, it is, as I suggested, no different than equipment oriented forums, regardless of how it's "supposed to be". IAC, my comment was more general

Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread)

2002-03-11 Thread Shel Belinkoff
And how is Photo.net different than any mailing list that espouses a particular brand of cameras and attenuate accessories. There's an awful lot of "enabling" going on on this list, and not only for the 67 cameras. IMO, the truth is that the internet encourages consumerism in these instances, wi