[rollei_list] Re: Doityourself CLA?

I had already forgotten about Ed Romney until someone
brought him up.

JJ

--- Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Monday, September 26, 2005, at 10:44  PM, Richard
> Knoppow wrote:
> 
> > I agree with the oversimplified part plus he
> suggests some thinkgs 
> > that make me cringe such as drilling holes in lens
> retaining rings to 
> > get them off but when I started doing my own
> cameras his books were 
> > about all that I could find. The earlier ones
> looked like the work of 
> > about an 8 year old.
> >  He was very right wing but not like Marc. There
> was a mean quality in 
> > Romney which is completely absent in Marc's
> thinking. I don't think 
> > Romney was a nice person, Marc definitely is. That
> _does_ make a 
> > difference.
> 
> You got that right!  Romney was a vile and bitter
> man.  Because I said 
> that Philips screwdrivers were not the same as
> cross-point, something 
> he never would believe, he got it in his head that I
> was trying to 
> destroy his business of selling Philips screwdrivers
> for camera repair. 
>   He wrote threatening, abusive letters to me, and
> wrote to Glenn Patch 
> repeatedly trying to get me fired from my job at
> Shutterbug magazine.  
> Glenn had to get a lawyer involved and there was
> talk of a restraining 
> order, although I don't know if one was ever put
> into effect.
> 
> Romney believed that there was a vast Jewish
> conspiracy to control the 
> world, and that this conspiracy had taken over the
> photo industry and 
> was directing its efforts at destroying his
> business.  He believed they 
> were threatened by his advice on how to save money. 
> He got it into his 
> head that I was the head of this conspiracy in the
> photo industry (in 
> spite of the fact that I'm not Jewish!).  I have a
> file of his hateful 
> letters here.  It got worse when he discovered the
> internet!  I believe 
> he was genuinely demented, and it got worse as he
> got older.
> 
> In the history of photography, Ed Romney is best
> forgotten.
> 
> Bob
> 
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