Losing a dog can be as bad as the loss of a human family member.
John
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From: John A. Lind <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Mailing List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 5:31 PM
Subject: [OM] Body, Lens and Film Tests, and a Life Lesson
> Not sending this to pull any heartstrings, but it was a life lesson
learned
> recently. Our dog of over 15 years passed away about two weeks ago. It
> was *decidedly* my other half's dog and she was devastated as the end came
> rather suddenly in about 12 hours.
>
> Many who are stricken with grief can go through a lot of guilt even over
> things someone more rational would see as absurd. One of them was not
> having photographed her (the dog) for over six months and she has taken a
> *lot* of photos of the dog over the last 15 years.
>
> One of the things I have consistently done when testing some film, a
camera
> body, lens, flash, etc. is photograph the dog and cat. I had photographs
> in the test archives she had completely forgotten about and some more
taken
> very recently she had not even seen yet. I took the slides and negatives
> and had 5x7 prints of them made for her, and had one 645 close-up portrait
> negative (a test of a 120 roll of Portra 160 NC) printed into an 8x10.
> Bought a special 8x10 album and gave them all to her (the only print
> mounted in the album was the 8x10 in the front) so she could create a
> memory book the way she wanted to. I cannot tell you the good this did
for
> her.
>
> Oly Content (as promised):
> One of the very last photos taken (about a month ago) was an experiment
> using Portra 400VC in an XA-2 from behind the dog looking in through the
> glass in our back door. The front of her was reflected in the glass and
it
> didn't come out too bad. A pro printer will be able to dodge and burn it
> to bring up the reflection some. Worked out fairly well. Wanted to test
> the higher speed Portra *and* give the XA-2 which had not been used in a
> *long* time a test. The XA-2 is still doing *very* well considering it
has
> been in a desk drawer for about five years.
>
> Life Lesson:
> Take at least some candids of the kids and pets when testing stuff out.
> Some of them can (will) be photos you will be *very* glad you have in the
> future.
>
> -- John
>
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