david_brainard

<p>I've never placed it next to a Nikon F4; but a Topcon Super D was no midget.<br>

Dave</p>

<p>Over a year ago, I viewed some images on Photo.net made at night in the fog in Thessalonoki.<br>

I thought I had made note of the photographer, but I must have lost it.<br>

Can anyone assist me in my search?</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>I must have missed something. How did I get into PPofA land?</p>

As mentioned by Mr. Tomasi, THE key factor for newspapers using digital photography is that it is cheap.

It allows them to reduce their staff and cut supply cost.

Copy editors have been replaced by spell check and grammar check. Compositors have been replaced by Quark, Photoengravers by RIP's.

The standards have been lowered and the lower standards accepted. The craft is gone and it shows.

It's been going on long before digital technology ever entered the newsroom. 4X5 filmpacks were replaced by 120 roll film. 120 replaced by 35mm. B&W film by C-41.

For the owning class, profit is the only objective. The owning class and the working class have nothing in common.

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Clyde was a stop on the southern division of the Lake Shore Electric Railway which ran between Cleveland and Toledo until about 1938. The trains ran about once an hour.

I doubt that any camera has guided more high school and college students through their photography courses than the Pentax K1000.

It is a fine camera. Hope your brother's o.k..

My guess is the 'I' is about a 1/25 and the three f-stops are 16, 11, 8. You probably won't have any problem using ISO 125 film. It would be interesting to see the job it does with colour.

I'd have to cast my vote for the Pentax Spotmatic and its descendant, the K-1000. Thousands of aspiring photography students learned their craft using and abusing these cameras and never got the better of them. A true 'hockey puck' of a camera.