Nice, Chris, & good luck with it.
(while you can; there's a deeply sad little SF story, which I can't
find at the moment, about a photographer using up his last ([& THE
last] roll of film in the world....)
Doug
On 24-Nov-09, at 4:30 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> Today, I showered and shaved then opened my front door and stood there
> brushing my teeth in case I missed the postman. (Electric tooth brush,
> you can do that sort of thing)
>
> He finally turned up at 2.30 and my new camera is here and it is
> wonderful. I never thought I would live long enough to get one of
> these.
> Thank you digital, thank you for making the most top shelf roll film
> cameras so cheap... (and also to the recession for lowering the price
> even more.)
>
> The camera is now sitting on top of my copy of Crimp's, On the
> Museum's
> Ruins, while I recover enough to accept the fact this is real. For
> now I
> am walking around and around the table just looking at it. Maybe
> tomorrow I might put a roll of film through it... (thanks to KEH, of
> course.)
>
Douglas Barbour
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