I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to the
college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the floor and
shot up at him as he spoke, walked, and gestured. He got quite
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use
of my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came
to the college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on
the floor and shot up at him as he spoke, walked, an
On 11-04-14 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to the
college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the floor and
shot up at him
during a photo class we used disposable cameras; i used my to shoot my
nephew during a short vacation, but i jumped into a pool with the camera
in my pocket (a few of the shots came out okay)
while changing lens beside a canal in Amsterdam, my Canon 20mm in its
neoprene soft case rolled off a
While in college, shooting for the annual with rangefinder, I managed
to shoot a whole roll with the lens cap on.
Bill
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> On 11-04-14 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
>>
>> I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good u
On Apr 14, 2011, at 13:30, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
>
> Anyway, afterward I noticed that the film rewound too quickly. And we all
> know what that means. (Or is that assuming too much these days? Have people
> forgotten?)
>
Yeah.
"Hey, cool, I've managed to squeeze 38 shots onto this rol
In the gelatine days I had the habit of not winding the lip of a film
entirely into the cartrige.
In a friend's marriage once, I made sure I had exposed film in one
pocket and unexposed film in the other. Then I was asked to do a group
shot and had to change film with all the wedding guests lined
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
> While in college, shooting for the annual with rangefinder, I managed
> to shoot a whole roll with the lens cap on.
I was frequently grateful that my Canonet's auto-exposure mechanism
locked out the shutter button if there wasn't enough light.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
>
> That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
> nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
> one extra advance to see if it was still winding. Better that than
> waste an entire roll.
I gues
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
>> nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
>> one extra advance to see if it was still
My first quarter of college I was out for a bike ride, looking for things to
photograph Northeast of Davis. I saw a plane that was going to fly nearly
overhead, but if I rushed, I might be able to get directly below the flight
path. Riding without hands, at top speed I focused and set the expos
On 11-04-14 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
one extra advance to see if it was still winding. Better that t
Dropping my SP500 in the pacific ocean near the Queen Charlotte
Islands in British Columbia.
Two days of drying and praying and all was well
Dave
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl
wrote:
> I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
> GIII ju
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:14:51PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
>
> The Praktica is built like a tank. Weighs like a tank; shakes like a
> tank when you press the shutter; sounds like a tank, ... :-)
QC was dubious at best, though. My brother bought a Praktica at around
the same time I bought my S
I seem to remember a story like this on the PDML. It must have been you.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
> Dropping my SP500 in the pacific ocean near the Queen Charlotte
> Islands in British Columbia.
>
> Two days of drying and praying and all was well
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu
From: Keith Whaley
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
> I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use
> of my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came
> to the college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on
> the floor and shot up a
From: Stan Halpin
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove
me nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame
by doing one extra advance to see if it wa
Bruce Walker writes:
> The Praktica is built like a tank. Weighs like a tank; shakes like a
> tank when you press the shutter; sounds like a tank, ... :-)
No kidding. I once dropped a Praktica while standing on a six foot or
so high ledge -- say a 10-12 foot drop, onto blacktop. It landed upsi
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:00:34AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Stan Halpin
>
> >John, for that method to work, you need to pay attention to whether
> >or not the the rewind crank is turning, or whatever that body's
> >signal is. For those of us who sometimes didn't pay attention, we had
> >
Not my camera but my only such story. Back in late 1979, I went to central
London with a friend one weekend to take some photos. He had two expensive
Nikon cameras, bag, lenses, rolls of film - I took my entire camera
collection which consisted of an MX, 50mm lens and one roll of film in the
camera
> Not my camera but my only such story. Back in late 1979, I went to
> central
> London with a friend one weekend to take some photos. He had two
> expensive
> Nikon cameras, bag, lenses, rolls of film - I took my entire camera
> collection which consisted of an MX, 50mm lens and one roll of film i
> interesting story! Back at about that same time I went into Central
> London
> with a friend. He too had a whole bunch of Nikons and lenses & stuuf,
> and I
> too had just an MX and 1 lens and a flash. We were setting up to take
> some
> pictures in Parliament Sq and I was putting my MX onto a tr
Oh, hell, I did some version of this a number of times. It got voted
off the island very early in the "silliest" competition.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
> Not my camera but my only such story. Back in late 1979, I went to central
> London with a friend one weekend to t
oK - I'll play...
I"d gone back to lurking for a couple of days but here I am :-)
the classic one we all did (film didnt catch, didn' t notice the
winder-side not turning, etc...) as mentioned by Collin .
Forgetting to change the ASA /ISO on the KX or LX after changing from
25 or 64 k-chro
>The Praktica is built like a tank. Weighs like a tank; shakes like a tank when
>you press the shutter; sounds like a tank, ... :-)
Found one of those all black LTLs with Pentacon 50mm f1.8 at the
Denver Flea Market for $4 about a year ago. Looked like it had been
used very little, but the hard c
On 15/04/2011 05:38, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I seem to remember a story like this on the PDML. It must have been you.
Might have been me, recounting dropping my Z1-p, LX, AF280T and assorted
lenses and accessories into a river in Siberia. In my defence, it
wasn't actually me that did the d
." !
Jack
--- On Fri, 4/15/11, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
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> Subject: Re: The silliest thing you ever did with your camera
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> Date: Friday, April 15, 2011, 7:12 AM
> oK - I'll play... I"
Jack Davis wrote:
When they broke it up I went to the monitor to chimp and grin. "No Card in
Camera." !
Time to change that menu setting about shooting without a card.
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
> I seem to remember a story like this on the PDML. It must have been you.
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
>> Dropping my SP500 in the pacific ocean near the Queen Charlotte
>> Islands in British Columbia.
>>
>
It's funny how I remembered an incident that banged me up, only causing
cosmetic damage to the camera, and until now had forgotten
A few weeks after I bought my K20, I was driving to work for a mandatory work
on Saturday day. I saw a redtail hawk in a tree, pulled over, and in a hurry,
pu
My FIRST Super Program was packed inside a rucksack that bounced out the
back of an Army 5-ton truck during a convoy movement. The rucksack was
run over by the next truck in line.
I had CAREFULLY stowed my ruck, but some anonymous someone moved it in
order to get to their own gear.
They did
On 4/14/2011 21:30, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good
use of my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular
speaker came to the college I got there early and got a front-row
set. Then I sat on the floor and shot up at him as
On Apr 16, 2011, at 6:55, John Sessoms wrote:
> My FIRST Super Program was packed inside a rucksack that bounced out the back
> of an Army 5-ton truck during a convoy movement. The rucksack was run over by
> the next truck in line.
>
I didn't miss my Super Program when it got stolen. The LCD
: The silliest thing you ever did with your camera
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of
my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to
the college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the
floor and shot u
From: "Collin Brendemuehl"
>
> To: "pdml"
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>
>
>> I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of
>> my GIII just before
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Subject: The silliest thing you ever did with your camera
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use
of
my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular spea
esjardins"
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> What was it?
>
> Nosy Steve
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Christine Aguila
> wrote:
>>
I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home from work (about 7
miles down the road) I passed a big flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds
(something you see rarely around here. I think they just migrate
through in the Spring). So I went around the block, grabbed my K-x put
on my Pentax-F 70-210 and s
3 cards in a little neoprene case on my camera strap solves that problem.
Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
> I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home from work (about 7
> miles down the road) I passed a big flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds
> (something y
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I can think of many, many stupid things, but if the truth be told the
silliest thing I do with my camera is leaving it home.
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Ah yes; also guilty.
On 11-04-22 8:15 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I can think of many, many stupid things, but if the truth be told the
silliest thing I do with my camera is leaving it home.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
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On Apr 21, 2011, at 14:45, Darren Addy wrote:
> I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home from work (about 7
> miles down the road) I passed a big flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds
> (something you see rarely around here. I think they just migrate
> through in the Spring). So I went around th
On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 14:45, Darren Addy wrote:
>
>> I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home from work (about 7
>> miles down the road) I passed a big flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds
>> (something you see rarely around here. I think
On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:02, Stan Halpin wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
>>
>> When I take my card out to download files, I make it a point to leave the
>> door on the camera open.
>>
>> This way, I never pick up an empty camera and assume it's ready to shoot.
>>
Yes, I used to do that. :-( Until I broke the door off in a fall
off the chair!
It was a $200 repair on the *ist DS.
Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 14:45, Darren Addy wrote:
>
>> I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home fro
I still wince when I think of what I did.
Perched on a rock, about 20 feet above a Scottish burn taking long exposures of
the flowing water. LX + FA 24mm f/2.0 on the tripod, F28mm f/2.8 in hand. About
to change the lens, nudged the tripod and, in slow motion, all toppled
waterwards. In my att
Oh and not quite on topic, when I graduated I argued with my mother that we
shouldn't use the local Chemist to develop the films, but send them to the mail
order folks who did my slides because they were special and would be of better
quality.
Guess what - lost in the post. 35 years on she sti
On Apr 23, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> When I take my card out to download files, I make it a point to leave the
> door on the camera open.
>
> This way, I never pick up an empty camera and assume it's ready to shoot.
I take the opposite approach.
Because I only have one card i
Packed my Canon T-90, flash and three lenses into a bright yellow bag
marked Kodak in plain view in one of Paris's worst parts of town. Put
it on the backseat, covered it with a jacket and walked off to buy a
quick snack before driving back to Germany. First one broke the window
and stole the T-90,
, Australia
kit was worth more than the car!
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Man, these stories about camera theft and the car break the heart. I feel
for you guys. Cheers, Christine
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> I had a car like that once, too...
>
> 2011/4/24 John Coyle :
>>
&g
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 03:20:07PM +0200, Ecke PDML wrote:
> fortunately that was 20 years ago. nonetheless I still occasionally
> get the itch for a used t-90. it was just that awesome.
I've known other people who expressed similar opinions of the T-90.
I've even known one who gave in to the urg
On Apr 23, 2011, at 9:53 PM, John Coyle wrote:
> Left my full kit in the car, at work the day after photographing at a concert
> with Ella
> and the Duke: came back at the end of the day to find a space where the car
> should have
> been. Got the car back three weeks later, but never saw the c
On Apr 23, 2011, at 00:53 , David Mann wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
>
>> When I take my card out to download files, I make it a point to leave the
>> door on the camera open.
>>
>> This way, I never pick up an empty camera and assume it's ready to shoot.
>
> I
On Apr 23, 2011, at 21:53 , John Coyle wrote:
> Left my full kit in the car, at work the day after photographing at a concert
> with Ella
> and the Duke: came back at the end of the day to find a space where the car
> should have
> been. Got the car back three weeks later, but never saw the cam
That's a scary story and a lesson for us all!
Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 21:53 , John Coyle wrote:
>
>> Left my full kit in the car, at work the day after photographing at a
>> concert with Ella
>> and the Duke: came back at th
On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
> I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
> GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to the
> college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the floor
> an
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