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Man, if i had a crib like that you could forget the cameras- give me

a hot chick to fondle

Ann- thanks for the response. Looks like you're the lone voice in the photographic

wilderness. I'll buy one and give it a go.

I am thinking of getting a Daylab to put my 35 slides onto both polaroid Type 55 and

color emulsions. I've never seen a print from a daylab, but have done lots of 4x5

work in polaroid and love the results. Can I expect anywhere near the same quality

from the daylab prints?

Carry it in your hand. If you want to draw something quickly from your pocket,

get a pocket pistol.

All I can tell from these is you took a picture, and 20 minutes later you took another

one. Did that thing break again? You spent a fortune on that DMR = At least find

some hot chicks to shoot.

I'm so dumb I actually thought those people were real Leica users. Thanks,

Thomas... " Ye shall know the truth, and it shall set you free"

I'm soooo unhappy now- I thought by ordering my ala carte Leica that people would

think I was a well-to-do doctor, broker, trust fund student, or famous female fiddle

player.

Thomas: Allow at least 2 hours from Furnace creek to the Racetrack.(But I drive fairly

slow) About 50 -60 minutes to Ubehebe Crater where you will get on the road to the

Racetrack. Now, the road is not a 4 wheel drive road, but it is extremely - and I can't

emphasize that word enough_ ROUGH. Washboard all the way, 35 miles of it. While

not 4-wheel drive, you want to have REALLY tough tires if possible. It;s a wide

poorly graded track. My average speed is about 30 MPH. I have been there many

times, latest last October, and the road was not too damaged by all the rain. But they

have had more so CHECK WITH the rangers before you go. The best light is early

morning and late evening and I go and spend the night out there somewhere. If you

are going out there I'm sure you know all the cautions when traveling that part of the

country. It's a magical place. Climb up on the Grandstand and shoot east to get the

shadows of the mountains coming out onto the playa. Have fun and I hope you have

good clouds and light.

Mr. Chang: try www.kenleegallery.com. He has a free bronze quadtone to

download

that uses regular Epson inksets

Casey's Cameras- 1550 Tropicana

Good selection of used and new stuff, medium format, large format. The only store

there I have found worth going to and I've hit them all. Can't say about the pawn

shops but I've always meant to check them out.

Tien: I have driven to the racetrack many times in the past 5 years and never seen it

bad enough that you could not get a passenger car down it. I have seen mini-vans

and rental cars come in and out without a problem. It is not steep, narrow, nor does

it have any big rocks to drive over. Basically a wide graded road. What it is is

ROUGH- I mean washboard bone-jarring. Plan on a speed of under 30 MPH. If you

decide you don't like it, there are plenty of spots to turn around. With the rains last

summer they don;t want you to walk out there because you will leave footprints. I

was there this October and it was still damp. May be dried out by now. Now- out

there road conditions can change over night with a strong rain. Check with the

ranger station to see the current conditions. Take it slow and I don't think you will

have any problems, they make out like it's remote and you won't see anyone but

everytime I've been there were at least 3 or 4 cars that showed up during the day.

Eddie-go to leica's web site- look under "leica a la carte,, go to configurator- you

can make one any way you like and see a picture along with prices. Mine was about

$4500 USA dollars. You order from a Leica dealer and they order direct from the

factory. If you can visit a dealer some have a dummy camera with all the bits and

parts you can put on in the shop to see how it looks.

to quote Moe Howard--- " the figures stagger me!"

Actually you could take the dusty, hairy scans and make dusty, hairy prints and go to

any gallery in Santa Fe or Aspen etc, and be given a one -man show. Very earthy and

gritty.

Leica is a company going along with some of its wheels about to fall off- if they lose

or change the only thing they have going now-and that is their image of quality-be it

real or imagined-well, R.I.P.