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Thanks for the head's up, Michael. Amazingly, the segment that followed it was also on photography and showed Henry

Grossman wielding his Nikon F.

Looks like split rings is the way to go.

Thanks for the suggestion to get them at a hardware store.

Canon Sure-shot. Minolta Freedom Zoom 140EX. You can buy the Minolta from Amazon for $20. I own one and it is

very capable, but it drives the focus and exposure, not you.

The YouTube link was painful to watch. Over the past decade, I have made three trips to Europe (I live in the Seattle

area) each about two weeks long. On each occasion, when I returned, I was struck by how fat we are. Europeans are

walkers.

Over the past few years, I have gone from 6 feet 5, 260 pounds, and waist 44 inches to 6 feet 2, 175, and 37 inches,

without even trying. The key dimension in my case is age, 77 years. I have little appetite. I use to devour peanut buster

parfaits from DQ. The last one I bought, months ago, was discarded after two spoonfuls. Last year, my wife took 26 pairs

of blue jeans, waist 42 and 44 inches to Goodwill.

I try not to be too bitter about what the US has become. I try to focus on how good it was to me. Both sets of

grandparents born in Europe, paternal spoke something akin to English, maternal maybe 6 words of English. My father,

born in Scotland, came here as a 12 year old, and after high school, spent 14 years in the West Virginia coal mines. I

flipped a coin and chose to make the Air Force my career, the best thing that ever happened to me.

I also all three versions of the F-1, and my favored cameras are the F-1N and T90.

Nice find!

I mentioned this to my son, who after 27 months in Iraq, went to law school and is now a deputy prosecutor. He said that

defense attorneys, in extremus, often offer a Hail Mary defense, because nothing else is available.

He said that shooting up women's skirts was indefensible.

I go along with Peter. The 105mm lens in all its forms, non-AI, AI, and AF is just a marvelous lens on both film and digital

Nikon SLRs. The newer 18-55mm is also very handy.

I particularly like the Nikon N80, the F100's kid brother. You can get one today for a song. The N90 is also good, but

doesn't fit my hand so well. The F100 feels like it was tailor made for me.

Sigh. So many cameras, so little time. And in my case, so little talent.

I was there in 1993, but in the afternoon. I was an Air Force weather satellite specialist for 22 years and this display was

marvelous.

If the other Rick, Van Nooji, makes an appearance on this thread, perhaps he can confirm the rumor that that the Dutch

use mayonnaise on their chips rather than ketchup. Kinda stomach curdling.

Nice work, Rick V.

I am an Air Force colonel, and you have to complete the story. I know that a Polish airborne division took part in

Operation Market Garden, aka "A Bridge Too Far". So did my son in law's father, who was a glider pilot in the 82nd

Airborne, his 3rd glider flight behind German lines, the first being on D-Day. Do your photos pertain to this operation?

Rick, your photos are lovely and inspired. I often use my ancient Nikon lenses on current DSLRs.

Please don't take this as a criticism in any way, but simply a query. Is it OK to post photos taken with a classic lens on a

modern digital body here? It is fine with me and I will now consider Tamron lenses as possible acquisitions.

I am merely asking for clarification. I think it is a fine idea to show the quality of ancient lenses. I would never have done

so out of fear from the powers of wrath from the alphas.

I have heard that the phrase "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" when run through an early English to Russian

computer translation came out "the meat is rotten but the vodka is fine".

My personal favorite is "one man's fish is another man's poisson".

Followed by "one man's Mede is another man's Persian".

Don't get me wrong; I love them, and most of my favorite cameras have them. But when you have 150-200 cameras, most of mine do

not. To equip them all with $15-20 straps would involve some serious whip-out, and cut into my evenings spent with junior. ( I am a huge

Dan Jenkins fan, and whip-out is cash and junior is 12 year old scotch)

Any good ideas not involving twine out there?

In my old age, I do ask the salesman or my wife to attach them, and they always do.

I enjoyed your reply, Arthur, more than you can imagine. When I was commissioned as a 2/LT in the Air Force in 1958, I

volunteered to become a weather officer. My first year

jof active duty was spent at NYU studying meteorology. After 3 years of

being a forecaster in the southeast, I was sent to MIT for two years to earn masters degrees in meteorology and aeronautics-astronautics. I was never a forecaster again in the conventional sense. Though still in the USAF, I spent the next two

years at Goddard Space Flight Center as an analyst on the TIROS and Nimbus weather observatories. Next was an

assignment to Vietnam, where I managed the Secret/SAR USAF weather satellite. Four months later, I convinced Gen

Westmoreland to request the launch of noontime polar orbiter to augment our AM POLAR Orbiter. Coming back from

Vietnam, I spent most of the rest of my service career searching for ways to improve the effectiveness of our classified

spy satellites (www.nro.gov). Highly classified until 1992.

You had a good answer and we could have used you in Air Weather Service.

I usually plan my photo outings in the AM and the iPad app helps me figure out which way to head and what to bring. As

well as being valuable to other activities.

Unless you do all your photography in a studio, you benefit from a free app called "Living Earth". It shows the weather conditions on the

globe, which can be set to spin, or hold stationary. It can be expanded and looks great on my iPad 4.i. It also has controls that show

many other parameters like wind and temperature. You can take a snapshot of it which can be emailed.

Unfortunately, I don't know to post of a photo of it. If someone here does know how, I would love to send them an email to post. On the

dark side of the earth, depending on cloud cover, there are fantastic images of city lights, and oil well burn offs.

I have been a subscriber to Playboy nearly 60 years. I used to keep them all, which was tricky during my 20+ years in the

military, which involved about a dozen moves. I had to do some fast talking to get them shipped as "professional"

literature. I know you all will scoff at my next statement. I get Playboy mainly for the articles. Playboy introduced me to

James Bond, in 1959, with a short story, "The Hildebrand Rarity". I went to the base library, and found two books written

by Ian Fleming. The Playboy Interviews are first rate. Jimmy Carter and Richard Dawkins and many others. I went for

10 years where I didn't even look at the centerfold. I do now, because they have apparently eased up on their habit of

having every model have surgery to place two basketballs on their chests. I have yet to find a single man who

appreciates what I call "bolt-ons".

I was not up to attending my 60th high school reunion this year, clear across the country. It combined the classes of 53,

54, and 55, for obvious reasons. I did receive a copy of the program, which of course included a "In memory of" section.

Reading the list was extremely depressing. A person on the list for 55, was a cute young lady named Phyllis Sowicki. In

July 1963, she was the centerfold under the name Phyllis Sherwood. Playboy was so chaste in that era that the article

included photos of her mother, fully clothed, of course. That issue is somewhere in my garage, but so is the Library of

Congress. You young-uns may be surprised to learn that in late 40s and 50s, it was not unusual to show nude women in

Life and National Geographic, and the monthly photo mags.

If you think photographing nudes is easy, try to talk your wife or girlfriend into posing, and if you are successful, unless

you're a pro, you both will be disappointed, no matter how attractive the subject.

Great history lesson, JDM. Who knew Che liked cameras. Even though I am a retired senior officer, I have a more

positive view of Che today, than 50 years ago, thanks to our neo fascists.

It would be interesting to what he was taking pictures of.