I have a surrealistic slide taken with Ektachrome from about 1970 that came
back from the developers a strange shade of yellow and green. It is of a
silhouette of an old farmhouse and windmill against clouds and sky on the
prairie. Heat can do interesting things to color!
Gregg
From: Dirk Wright
>
>
> >Maybe that lonely, lensless Minolta SRT-101 I saw the other day. I'm
> not
> >sure I'd subject even an OM-10 to the brutality of a car trunk in a
> Texas
> >summer. OTOH, maybe an OM-77 or OM-88 might be deserving of a good
> >baking...
> >
>
> Just to invoke the "bad luck" gods, it would certainly come to pass
> that when you grab that non-OM camera hoping to catch that once-in-a-
> lifetime-I can-retire-tomorrow photo, you start trying to change the
> shutter speed by turning the aperture ring around the lens......<g>
>
> Also, heat will kill any film, besides ruining the camera. I can see
> this now, you stop the car, run around to the hot trunk, grab the all
> metal beastie bullet-proof camera, and holy jesus! hot potato! But,
> you're a real man, so you mash that hot brick against your pale, sun-
> deprived greenish skin (from reading far too many emails about cameras)
> and fire away. A few hours later in the ER of the local hospital: "you
> got second degree burns on your face from a *camera*??, Oh, come on,
> mister. Look, it's not April Fools day, so why don't you just sit down
> here so we can put this jacket with nice long arms on you while we wait
> for help, OK?"
>
> <g>
>
> Be seeing you.
>
>
> Dirk Wright
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