[Leica] Kodak B&W 400 film

[keith at wbalaw.com (Keith R. Wessel)]

Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodak B&W 400 film


> Boy, Jay, you just DO NOT GET IT, do you? :-) You didn't refer to
> "plenty of," you essentially referred to everyone who runs a printing
> machine. And I responded as I did not because I feel the need to defend
> my kids - both of whom, by the way, have tattoos, as do an enormous
> percentage of young people in their generations, but rather to point out
> that we really don't need to slime entire groups or classes of people. 
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Leicajay@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:02 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak B&W 400 film
> 
> 
> <<In a message dated 03/31/2004 9:15:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
> Leicajay described everyone who works in 'non-pro' photo processing
> places as....
> 
> (i.e. some pierced/tattooed snotnose this-is-just-a-job 
> type running the machine) to print on color paper and have it look like
> B&W.  
> ----
> 
> Well, Jay, now that you've maligned my two older kids, both of whom
> worked in such labs during high school, and both of whom are now earning
> their livings in photography - one as a magazine staff photographer
> about to be named associate editor, and one as a master black and white
> printer, doing working for - among others - several Magnum photographers
> - who would you like to slime next with your broad brush? :-)>>
> 
> 
> Congratulations BD you're today's inductee into the Voluntary Indignant 
> Society, the elite group that labors to find insult where none was
> intended.  Quite 
> obviously to anyone other than a VIS member, your kids are clearly not
> in the 
> group of whom I was speaking.  But we've all been to WalMart or
> Walgreens or 
> (fill in the name) and know there are plenty of lackadazical
> clockwatching 
> pinheads working the minilabs.    They don't all have parents like
> yourself who 
> by example instill in them an admirable work ethic.
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