Remember when?

MoPar Maniac said:
Ah yes. The old darkroom timers.
I never used one as the only thing I did in the dark room was slit rolls of foto paper to send to our foto lab. I seem to remember old junk like that lying around 30 years ago.
No need for anything like that these days. No more film and fully digital printing.
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Theirs something lost there. I still like my Nikon FII but not sure why?
 
Bigbarney I don't think I understand.
As for something being lost, to me it is the art of crafting a photograph-not a snapshot and then developing the film to create different effects.
Now anybody can take pictures. For the average person that's fine but the art of photography from start to finish is dying.
Not that I am an expert. Far from it. But I have designed and built industrial cameras and still work with and do light repair on cameras. Light repair since I can't buy new parts nor do I have the equipment to repair them. If we did Nikon would require us to be an authorized repair facility.
Been doing this thing for 37 years now. Two to go.
 
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MoPar Maniac said:
Bigbarney I don't think I understand.
As for something being lost, to me it is the art of crafting a photograph-not a snapshot and then developing the film to create different effects.
Now anybody can take pictures. For the average person that's fine but the art of photography from start to finish is dying.
Not that I am an expert. Far from it. But I have designed and built industrial cameras and still work with and do light repair on cameras. Light repair since I can't buy new parts nor do I have the equipment to repair them. If we did Nikon would require us to be an authorized repair facility.
Been doing this thing for 37 years now. Two to go.
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I agree, that's what I'm talking about. Everything today with the I-pod digital is point and shoot. I bought one of the 1st 100 FII's imported into this country in the summer of '71. With tax it was pushing $800. Then I went back the following week and picked up a filter to protect the lens and a 2X extender and between the 50MM and the extender it was all I ever needed. Spent the next 40 years having many fun times all over this nation, Canada, and Australia. Never got into developing my own B+W or color. Never had the time or the desire. I gave the Nikon to my Daughter the same Christmas I gave my Son-on-Law my Rolex. At some time it all becomes just stuff. I retired in the spring of '03. You're getting close to hanging up your spurs too. Hope you have made more plans then just sitting on your porch watching everything go by? Happy Trails and enjoy the time remaining the Big Guy lets you have, Jer
 
I'd love to get a C body-haven't owned one since the early 80s but I have neither the money or place to work on it. Or keep it.
So, next month I am taking my 87 Guzzi SP II to a friend who owns a shop and he's going to put it back together for me. Once its done I'm doing the same with my 90 California III Touring. When its done my son and I are going to do a couple trips.
He lives in Athens, AL so I think the first ride is to Barber's in Birmingham. Plus I need to get back to work rehabbing my house. I need to get him to Deal's Gap.
All I have to work on the bikes in is a 12 x 17 shed. Cold in winter hot in summer.
Eventually I may move to Athens but I dunno.
 
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Popular Mechanics, Oct. 1962
 
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Remember in the 80s when you had to ad this NOX smog device to all cars. You also had to apply a hard to remove decal on your air cleaner and gauges. I once failed a smog on a 71 GTX when would not let them stick the decal on gauges. Maybe this was just a California thing?
 
SGT FURY said:
View attachment 361348 Remember in the 80s when you had to ad this NOX smog device to all cars. You also had to apply a hard to remove decal on your air cleaner and gauges. I once failed a smog on a 71 GTX when would not let them stick the decal on gauges. Maybe this was just a California thing?
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I’ve never seen anything like that around here. Put that on the shelf next to your bottle of liquid engine rebuilder!
 
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