Boys, spare us all the agony of doing it on our list about OLYMPUS
EQUIPMENT... just flop your piece on the scanner alongside a ruler with
metric and imperial scales (mind your balls), and email each other the
scans (not much compression required I daresay).
On second thoughts, you'll probably get a better result with Olympus
macro gear (say, the 20mm with bellows?)!
Dylan
> >...I guess we can't stop people having home darkrooms but perhaps they
> >ought to be subject to inspection and the chemicals require a licence
> >for purchase, to prove the user knows correct safety procedure.
>
> Yeah, we should also require them to get another license to buy Clorox,
> ammonia, paint, motor oil, varnish, furniture wax, windshield fluid,
> Windex, Drano, Ajax, etc. Hell, I've even heard that some people pour used
> cooking oil down the drain!
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> >xxx shat upon the net thusly:
>
> Civilized folk don't write like that.
>
> >BTW, obviously your wish didn't come true - I haven't been hit by a truck
> >yet.
>
> You, sir, are confusing me with someone else. Please don't libel on
> this (normally) friendly list.
>
> The worst thing about getting the digest version is not being able to
> automatically delete postings from consistently rude people.
>
> xxx, unless you also get the digested version, I'd invite you to
> put me in your kill file, since I seem to get on your nerves and thus
> elicit rude responses.
> Yeah, me too! :>)
>
> xxx
---
> >>Right on, xxx.
> >>
> >>I missed this "I know what's best for you" Mommy-state message below.
> >>Whoever you were, keep your mitts out of my darkroom and my business. Go
> >>stare into your monitor and wait for the cataracts to appear.
> >>
> >>xxx
> >
> >Well, xxx, glad to see I can sometimes agree with you :-)
----
> Oh, how soon we conveniently forget. You claim you don't remember
> saying you hoped I'd get run over by a truck? This was in your
> resignation letter when you took your toys and left the list. Yes, back
> then you were espousing that no one should be allowed to drive an SUV.
> Cept maybe to the scrapheap. Don't you remember spouting off in your
> endearingly fascistic way? "I will decide what you can drive!"
>
> Now, you're back (And I swore I heard a collective sigh when your first
> message appeared on the list after your supposed self-imposed exile.)
> The pompous ass is back, insulting people (not talking about me here,
> but am referring to several insulting comments you've made in the last
> couple of weeks to other list members) who you feel are not up to your
> cranial capacity standards, oh great wizard. And of course you arrived
> with a new order of business, CONTROLLING WHAT WE PUT DOWN OUR TOILETS.
> Now there's a job you're eminently suited for. Feel free to stick your
> nose in my sewer line any time, to check for contraband.
>
> Now I'll end this diatribe and let you have the last word, as I did last
> time. And let me say I wish you no physical harm, as you, civilized folk
> that you are, did me. But I do have a wish: that folks like you, who
> think of themselves as better than 'the rest of us', who deign to
> believe that they are the chosen ones to lead the ignorant masses out of
> their self-created misery to your vision of Nirvana, that **all** you
> folks could somehow be gathered up and placed in their own little
> country to watch over. Yes, a large covey of xxx types, each
> smarter than the last, each telling all the others how to live their
> lives. That would be the perfect hell for you.
>
> xxx
>
> PS: On the theory that it's best to know your enemy, I will not put you
> in my kill file..
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