Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] three questions: C41 b/w film; Mamiya DM22; why no US version of GF1 w 20mm kit?
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:50:48 -0400
References: <19b6d42d1003272213l512b02f2m2f28f7ddcd82d132@mail.gmail.com> <4BB1575D.9010500@cox.net> <19b6d42d1003292005i232b2aa2oe312204e8a044fba@mail.gmail.com> <23AC56C7-DE39-4BED-8054-85224F6B94F1@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292032q7ba0c0f3n8ca6371c24bc0973@mail.gmail.com> <42887A3A-152D-43FF-9ADF-AD77A5EE08B4@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292049v465921fbm6226478298695b18@mail.gmail.com> <03A6434D-F42B-4C3C-9BAB-89D6F99FC2E6@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292056n7c5bc6fdj6704614000fa76c7@mail.gmail.com> <4BB178B1.30700@panix.com>

This was 1981. All I remember is that it was ghastly.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:

> Isn't that ILFORD on 115 W Century Road in Paramus?  Not so much the
> corprate park as compared with Fairfield NJ.  Paramus is the Mall capital 
> of
> the East coast.  My mom is buried not far from there, in George Washington
> Memorial park.
>
> -rei
>
>
>
>
> On 03/29/2010 11:56 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
>> Yeah maybe one day. But I also like the possibility that I've confirmed I
>> was right the first time.
>>
>> Plus I have a sentimental attachment to Kodak and a distaste for Ilford.
>> Photographer I worked for in the early 80s sent me out by goddam Port
>> Authority bus and shank's mare as my grandmother used to say on a blasting
>> summer day to some god awful corporate castle in New Jersey of Ilford's to
>> pick up some kind of special paper he wanted. Then he was pissed it took
>> me
>> so long. I'm talking like a mile and a half in blank Jersey industrial
>> park
>> at 96 degrees.  Then bus.
>>
>> So it's hard to love Ilford.
>>
>> Meanwhile people ask other's people's opinions here ALL THE TIME SO WHAT'S
>> THE BIG DEAL ALLUVA SUDDEN?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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