Re: OT Trivia

2004-02-07 Thread Derby Chang
i had occasion to watch A Hard Day's Night and i'm wondering which model Pentax Ringo walks around with snapping pictures when he is playing hookie. i don't have a super clear view but it's a black body with Asahi Pentax visible in white letters. Herb... I'm pretty sure it's a Spotmatic.

OT Trivia

2004-02-06 Thread Herb Chong
i had occasion to watch A Hard Day's Night and i'm wondering which model Pentax Ringo walks around with snapping pictures when he is playing hookie. i don't have a super clear view but it's a black body with Asahi Pentax visible in white letters. Herb...

Re: OT: trivia

2003-06-24 Thread Nick Zentena
On June 23, 2003 10:18 pm, frank theriault wrote: Now that you mention it, I think you're right, Nick. I wonder if anyone had two or more cameras, so that one always had a camera when the used one was sent back for processing and re-loading. And, I wonder if you got back the same camera, or

Re: OT: trivia

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Roberts
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OT: trivia

2003-06-23 Thread Herb Chong
i'm reading Mark Twain's Following the Equator and in a few places he uses the verb to kodak and the noun kodak in the sense that we use the word photograph today. the book was written around 1897. Herb...

Re: OT: trivia

2003-06-23 Thread frank theriault
That's cool! I love trivia - in fact, my whole life is a collection of trivial, unimportant events (but I digress...). I suppose that around the turn of the last century, the only cameras available to the general public (other than big, bulky, hard to use view cameras) were Eastman Kodaks.

Re: OT: trivia

2003-06-23 Thread Nick Zentena
On June 23, 2003 09:55 pm, frank theriault wrote: That's cool! I love trivia - in fact, my whole life is a collection of trivial, unimportant events (but I digress...). I suppose that around the turn of the last century, the only cameras available to the general public (other than big,

Re: OT: trivia

2003-06-23 Thread frank theriault
Now that you mention it, I think you're right, Nick. I wonder if anyone had two or more cameras, so that one always had a camera when the used one was sent back for processing and re-loading. And, I wonder if you got back the same camera, or if they just sent back another one which was just