Ah, I see I didn't rag on myself enough. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> Martyn wrote:
>> However, if they do carry on I don't see the point of reducing the
>> number to 2 a year - if people can't be bothered to submit a picture
>> every 3 months I doubt that decreasing the opportunity will make much
>> difference (& obviously there's no need to participate in them all).
>> Also I think that we should stick to using Olympus kit in some way -
>> there are so many other ways to publish "general" pics on the net.
>
>
> It's funny that you mention all this as every few years we've had this
> very same conversation. Maybe if we dropped down to two a year we'd
> get more participation in any one event, but the overall participation
> would be lower. As to the Olympus kit "in some way", this was also
> agreed upon.
>
> Beginning of rant.
>
> Not to pick on Chuck, but let me pick on Chuck. He gets an OM-4 and
> then comes up with every imaginable excuse to not use it. Come on, if
> you can't get off your duff to run a single roll of film through the
> camera and have it put on a Photo CD at time of development at
> Walgreens, then there is something seriously wrong in your thinking. I
> have NO sympathy for him in this situation.
>
> Roll of film no-name film from Walgreens: $2.00
> Processing from Walgreens: $2.00
> Photo CD from Walgreens: $1.00
>
> Go out and shoot that roll of 24 exposures in an afternoon, drop it
> off at the drugstore, wait in your car for 35 minutes, walk back in,
> pay your $5 plus tax, go home and load said CD in your computer.
> Select a shot, resize, tweak, add your comments and email to Olaf.
> Oh, and before having the film developed, check the store flyer to see
> if the Photo CD is free with coupon.
>
> If you can't focus the stupid camera, then use that focus scale, stop
> down to F8 and shoot zone-focus.
>
> Excuses don't fly. Get off your duff and just do it. Martyn is right
> about at least SOME part of the equipment used to take the picture has
> to be Olympus. If it was truly a hardship, I'd go along with opening
> it up, but it really isn't.
>
> End of rant.
>
> AG Schnozz
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