[rollei_list] Re: Doityourself CLA?
- From: John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
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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