If he listened to me, they quickly went into the trash. He was so white from
that experience that I'm sure that he didn't skimp on floppies anymore.
SKip
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>Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Expensive camera, cheap film???
> From: "Richard Hawkins" <rhawkin3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:29:08 -0500
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Skip
>
>The next question is .... What did he do with the rest of the box of
>floppies? data or door stops?
>
>Rich
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skip Williams" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:53 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: Expensive camera, cheap film???
>
>
>> I'll never understand the people who will buy outdated film, gray market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.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>>
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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
>> >
>> >>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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>> >: Buy My Step Van! <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/van>
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