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Re: [OM] Let's go crazy!

Subject: Re: [OM] Let's go crazy!
From: EDB <perimeterbow@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:45:18 -0400
Glad to hear all the good news and everybody is fine.

I also purchased the new Portra 400 a few days ago, from Amazon.com. 
They were out of order for a couple of days, and shipped mine just today.



On 3/18/2011 6:10 PM, Nicholas Herndon wrote:
> March Madness indeed.
> This has been a wild month, starting with my birthday, then a lovely visit
> with my grandmother, followed by the earthquake in Japan where several of my
> close friends live or have family (all are safe, thankfully), followed by my
> yearly bonus and raise (which was quite a blessing) immediately followed by
> my house being broken into.  Beware the Ides of March!  Funny enough, they
> didn't touch any of my camera gear.  I think the burglars were in a hurry
> because our dogs were in the back yard barking their heads off, though the
> thieves still made out with quite a bit of our stuff.
>
> Anyway, everyone (including the dogs) is okay, we've beefed up security
> (which was extremely lax, shame on us) and should be able to replace most of
> the stolen items.
>
> So I've decided to continue this March theme of shakeups and shakedowns.  I
> just purchased a Fuji GA645 as my first foray into medium format, and will
> be selling ALL of my Oly gear, save a couple lenses and two OM bodies
> (TBD).  My Zuikoholism got way out of hand over the past few months, and I'm
> realizing more and more that there are really only a specific few focal
> lengths that I'm comfortable with.  Whatever money I make off that venture
> will almost certainly go back into some film gear (probably a Contax G2
> outfit) and more film as I am going to continue shooting film for the
> foreseeable future.  You see, when our house was robbed, my wife's laptop
> was stolen, along with almost all of my digital photos that were on it;
> however, all of my prints and film negs and slides were untouched!  While I
> probably won't bother with rescanning, at least I still have the negs/slides
> if I want to go back and print.
>
> For all of its idiosyncrasies, film still has some major advantages, one of
> which is that crackhead burglars think film and film gear is worthless.
>
> Anyway, I'll let the list know when I have the OM selloff--list members will
> get first dibs before the remainder goes on sale across various gear
> forums.
>
> As an aside, just today I purchased a pro pack of Portra 400.  I can't wait
> to see how it does.  I've heard it actually does well with underexposure,
> unlike most print film, and my experience with the older formula Portras
> shows that overexposure results in some pretty bad color shifting way into
> the magenta.  I'm going to try shooting the first roll at 500 and see what
> happens.  If it looks good, I'll underexpose at an EI of 640, and see what
> that does.  If *that* looks good, I will never again buy Fuji 800Z, since I
> shoot it at an EI of 640.  We'll see!
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