[rollei_list] Re: OT: Rolleiflex and Crime!
- From: Chris Burck <chris.burck@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:59:05 -0500
richard, those would be bluetooth (i.e. wireless) headsets, not the
actual phones.
On 2/28/10, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allen Zak" <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:46 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Rolleiflex and Crime!
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>
>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small"
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>>> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ZICG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>> <idcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:53 PM
>>> Subject: [rollei_list] OT: Rolleiflex and Crime!
>>>
>>>
>>> Many of you are probably acquainted with the
>>> British police procedural TV show, MIDSOMER
>>> MURDERS. Tonight I watched a 2009 episode,
>>> "Picture of Innocence". The plot is centered on
>>> a division within the photographic community in a
>>> small British village between the film guys and
>>> the digital folks. All I can say is that the
>>> British seem to take these disagreements a bit
>>> more viscerally than we do in the US!
>>>
>>> One of the photographers uses a Weston Master V
>>> light meter and a 2.8F Rolleiflex TLR. He ends
>>> up being strangled with the cord on the Master V!
>>>
>>> This is a highly recommended episode, only
>>> recently released on DVD. Lots of good camera
>>> gear in the background, and they even have some darkroom
>>> scenes.
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>> Maybe I should put break-away chains on all my
>>> lightmeters.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard Knoppow
>>> Los Angeles, CA, USA
>>> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> ---
>>>
>>
>> Not necessary. Any likely assailant would probably
>> mistake your light meter for a cell phone. That actually
>> happened to me, although not in the course of hostilities.
>>
>> Allen Zak
>>
> Since a lot of cell phones now have cameras in them I
> suppose it wouldn't take much to make them into lightmeters
> as well. Well, I guess Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy,
> forsaw all this with the wrist radio. I see a lot of people
> walking around with cellphones which fit into the ear. I
> always wonder if they are not remotely controlled androids.
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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