Re: Looking for funny text

2021-03-01 Thread John
All three showed up here. On 2/26/2021 13:44:00, Alan C wrote: Simplifying. Won't go. "The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos". Reminds me of a chap here who claimed the spotlights on his bakkie were so powerful

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-28 Thread Alan C
"The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos". Reminds me of a chap here who claimed the spotlights on his bakkie were so powerful (bright) he couldn't get into his garage until he turned then off! Alan C On 25-Feb-21 10:19

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2021-02-28 Thread Alan C
Trying again. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:46:51 +0200 From: Alan C To: pdml@pdml.net "The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and r

Looking for funny text

2021-02-28 Thread Alan C
Simplifying. Won't go. "The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos". Reminds me of a chap here who claimed the spotlights on his bakkie were so powerful (bright) he couldn't get into his garage until he turned then off!

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-26 Thread Bill
On Fri., Feb. 26, 2021, 7:16 a.m. David J Brooks, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:22 PM Ralf R Radermacher > wrote: > > > Am 25.02.21 um 22:14 schrieb mike wilson: > > > > > > > > I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing > > > the Pentax 67. > > > > Exactly. Thanks a

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-26 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:22 PM Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Am 25.02.21 um 22:14 schrieb mike wilson: > > > > > I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing > > the Pentax 67. > > Exactly. Thanks a lot. A friend has bought a used 6x7, although I think > it is a fake. It has

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread mike wilson
> On 25 February 2021 at 21:01 Bill wrote: > > > No, and I thought I had heard every joke about the 6x7. It sounds like > something Mike Johnston would come up with. > > bill Someone wh worked for Delphi. I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing the Pentax 67. If so,

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread mike wilson
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.photo.equipment.medium-format/c/Cwpq_aGDLnU?pli=1 Scroll all the way down to the post of Jun 14, 1997, 8:00:00 AM by Danny Gonzalez. He quotes a post from the rec.photo.equipment.medium-format (Yahoo?) newsgroup of 9 months previously. It has the quote you are

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 25.02.21 um 22:14 schrieb mike wilson: I feel this thread may be a thinly-disguised party for bashing the Pentax 67. Exactly. Thanks a lot. A friend has bought a used 6x7, although I think it is a fake. It has paint on all corners. ;-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne,

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
It could also part crowds. Decades ago, I was in DC on a lovely morning and decided I wanted to get a different angle on the Lincoln Memorial. I took my film 35 mm SLR out of my camera bag and started wandering around, just looking through the viewfinder from various vantage points. I never got

Re: Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread Bill
No, and I thought I had heard every joke about the 6x7. It sounds like something Mike Johnston would come up with. bill On Thu., Feb. 25, 2021, 2:19 p.m. Ralf R Radermacher, wrote: > Way back there used to be a text somewhere in the internet, joking about > the 67's mirror slap and somethong

Looking for funny text about 67 mirror slap

2021-02-25 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Way back there used to be a text somewhere in the internet, joking about the 67's mirror slap and somethong the author called sonic subject relocation or some such. The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos. Does anyone on here