i have a calculator that is older than all those. It's called a pad and pencil!! 
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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i have a calculator that is older than all those. It's called a pad and pencil!!
What kind of batteries do they use and are they still available?
I remember the first"digital" alarm clock I saw. It had little half size cards that would flip over each other to create the numbers. Yup, it was digital
Yup, you and I have similar histories. I lost my job because of it and had to take an early retirement. The digital revolution first killed the photofinishing business, the milk cow of camera stores, and the advent of better smart phone cameras was the last blow. Kodak will be a case study in future business classes on how to not run a company. See, I have stuff to be grumpy aboutI hear you loud and clear!I was very much directly affected by the digital/cell phone onslaught. We had to finally close the custom b&w lab at the end of 2012 (the business started in 1958). Fortunately, my years of selling photo gear was in the '80s when things were riding very high for film. A friend of mine is an engineer who did lots of stuff at Kodak, he was a lifer there as was his wife, now they both are doing different things with Kodak going away, for the most part.
JimThe battery is a pacemaker!What kind of batteries do they use and are they still available?
Photolabs? Basterds. One "respected" lab "lost" two 36 exp. rolls of film from a vacation in Monterey Bay. No point and shoot with the old Voigtlander; f stop, shutter speed, focal conversion from meters to feet in my head and careful framing with the eye. The photos in my mind showed up less than a year later as postcards. When you use so much care to set up the shots, you just don't blindly shoot and forget.
Whoa, I worked and still live in Monterey. Did a lab here do the processing or where you live. I worked at the same store that Ansel Adams bought his chemistry at, Myrick Photographic. That's the reason I don't post any of my work online, just sell it locally at galleries . Jim
No, it was at a So. Cal shop in Santa Barbara county. Vacation gave a good reason to burn through some film
(at least that was the excuse with the first wife anyway).B-string you need to come back here someday, as you know it's beautiful, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur etc. I live up in the hills not far from the Laguna Seca Raceway. I can sit out in my back porch and hear the race cars off in the distance. Even though I'm on a fixed income now and have zero money for traveling around the world, I don't mind so much being stuck here!! JimNo, it was at a So. Cal shop in Santa Barbara county. Vacation gave a good reason to burn through some film
I'd love to Jim, fixed income also now. Never say never though. I spent the "first" 47 years of my life in So Cal and three times up to your area is DEFINITELY not enough. I was sure a beach bum like me would not find myself living in the desert of AZ?
These were my cameras of choice for a very large part of my photographic journey.
I never had enough spare time to move on from 35mm format. Shame, I really enjoyed photography.
Some serious guns there, I still have my Speed Graphic but it's mostly a mantel piece now. I pretty much settled on 6x7 medium format for my "serious" work. never much cared for the 6x6 format of the Hassies although they are awesome cameras. I would have been cropping every image with 6x6 and it would have defeated the reason I was using a larger negative than 35mm. That's why I settled on the Mamiya 6x7 RZ series of cameras with the rotating backs, relly neat system. One of the things I liked about photography as opposed to being a bassist in a band was that I could do it by myself, it was like being a one man band. It sort of suited my control freak tendencies, but I will always love playing . The performing arts along with the visual arts, a good combination, I guess I'm well balanced
Yeah but you have Sedona and some other spectacular scenery there also that I would love to see and photograph. Don't they have any of those indoor pool things with wave action devices like in China where you could still go surfing
If you ever get a chance to get a General Electric Super Radio from the late '80s and earl '90s grab it. It is renowned for both for it's sensitivity and sound. It takes 6 D cells and has a 6.5 inch speaker and is considered to be one of the best portable radios ever made. It sold for $50.00 bucks back in the day and I've seen them on e-bay going for as much as $300.00. Talk about they don't make them like they use to, just hope that there is still AM and FM in the future! JimI have a vintage Sony table radio with a big bassy speaker!
Yeah but you have Sedona and some other spectacular scenery there also that I would love to see and photograph. Don't they have any of those indoor pool things with wave action devices like in China where you could still go surfing
Sure there are some pretty areas here even in west central. I've only been to Flagstaff and Phoenix so far. The lake here with darkish blue water and the hills with different shades of red and orange against it is nice, then there is the old London Bridge. Lightning shots out here are my favorite to shoot.
Like these guys.
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We have one of these that belonged to the family, bought new back in the day!
Still going strong.
Still going strong.
For those lightning shots I would be using a carbon fiber tripod and not aluminum
KLH, nice sounding stuff!We have one of these that belonged to the family, bought new back in the day!
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Still going strong.
For those lightning shots I would be using a carbon fiber tripod and not aluminum
All I had was aluminum so this one sent me back in the house (that was from my back yard looking over the next door neighbor's roofs)!
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