I'll never understand the people who will buy outdated film, gray market stuff
that's been stored who-knows-where at who-knows-how-hot, or a brick at the
camera show for some "deal" price. Then they take it on the trip of a lifetime
to Africa and bitch when all their pictures have color shifts due to improper
storage. But they'll say that spending an extra $500 on a higher-end body will
make them a better photographer.
This also reminds me of the people who bought SD 3.5" floppy disks and a tool
to notch the corner to fool the drives into thinking that they were
High-Density disks. They spend hours and hours doing work, and then trust it
to something that they saved $.50 on? I actually had a manager of mine 10
years ago come to me and beg me to retrieve his spreadsheet off a floppy that
was unreadable. It was a notched floppy that he had gotten in a "computer
show" box. This disk was the SOLE repository of the project accounting and
tracking for a $6 million consulting job he was running! He ended up
recreating it from the printouts over about 20 hours.
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>Subject: [OM] Re: Expensive camera, cheap film???
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:32:50 -0800
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>From: Albert <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>The logic eludes me greatly... Someone explain it to me.. I have
>>cognitive dissonance..
>
>Sometimes my students balk at spending $91 during the class for seven rolls of
>Elitechrome and processing during the eight-week class.
>
>I then show them some of my Kodak 5247 sob stories from the 70's ("slides AND
>prints at the same time -- cool" NOT!), along side some Kodachrome from the
>same period, and tell them, "I've NEVER looked at one of my pictures and said,
>'Gee, I wish I'd shot that on cheaper film!'".
>
>Although, I've OFTEN said the opposite...
>
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