Thank you for your perspective, Ray. If we are being manipulated by deception, we at least should have that awareness. Harry. on 4/3/08 6:29 AM, Ray Rogers at earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > As an afternote, > > I should add I am comming to this problem more from the perspective of > historian rather than > photographer. > > It is frustrating from that angle too. > > Anyway, I am sorry for the number of typing and spelling errors in my last > posts... I haven't > slept in a while and even as I type I am falling in and out of... awareness. > > > Ray > > > --- Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If I have a film I liked, I might try out new films to see if I still >> preferred my standard. >> If you you then repackage the film I like and put ot up for sale... >> I will buy it thinking it is something new. >> >> (My opinion of the "NEW" film at that point is irrelavent; I may notice that >> they behave the >> same >> or I might miss it totally, that doesn't matter here.) >> >> What matters is the fact that you would have successfully tricked me into >> buying something I >> would >> not have bought, had I had access to the truth. >> >> In my way of looking at it, you would have lied, deceived and essentially >> stollen from me. >> >> OK, yes... >> As far as quality products go, My Favorite could be made by the guy formerly >> known as Prince on >> a >> pebble formerly known as Pluto for all I care. >> >> The specific "Who What Where" is not the issue... CONCIELING the "Who, What >> Where" is the issue. >> >> It is not what's under the wool I am angry about... it is the wool itself. >> >> I am in no need of not knowing who makes my film. >> >> Do you know people who actually NEED not to know? >> >> Ray >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --- "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Ray Rogers wrote: >>> >>>> I would just like to be able to know EXACTLY WHAT it is I am buying. >>> >>> Suppose you buy a film that is well-specified, with detailed >>> sensitometric graphs, development charts, etc. The product >>> works as advertised and you're happy with it. What does it >>> matter where it's made as long as it consistently performs >>> according to spec? The "what you're buying" *is* determined >>> by the specification. >>> >>> Dana > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total > Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.