Re: A few more from an '08 #315 trip . . .

Scott Turner Wrote:
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> That's the way my - often suspect these days -
> memory recalls things as well. I believe we got
> together afterwards and had dinner - and a
> coupla beers - at the Dutch Mill that evening.

"Great Minds Think Alike." — or is it "Thinking Minds Grate Alike." ?

> Yep, I'm in there somewhere but can't tell where
> exactly. And I'm just about 100% sure that you're
> correct about Alan Loomis.
>
> The other day you said something about no-one
> shooting film for the last 20 - or was it 25 -
> years, but I was an odd sort of holdout. I was a
> very early adopter to the DLSR world having
> acquired my first one in 2001, but by 2005 I'd
> become discouraged by some of the looks and
> limitations of the early gen DSLRs and went back
> to shooting almost exclusively film - with my
> much-loved EOS 3 with high speed winder - until I
> bought the Canon 5D Mk II in early '09. That was
> the first body I felt met all of my needs and I
> haven't shot film for RR work since. I still drag
> out the EOS 3 for occasional landscape stuff, but
> I'll go years without doing so.
>
> I mention this only because I shot that '08 315
> trip entirely on film. I'll have to drag those strips
> out and get them scanned again someday. My
> Nikon film scanner is still alive and working
> flawlessly . . .
>
> Probably TMI, but hey . . .  Good times.


Good Times is right, Scott -

Please do drag out and scan the rest of those 06/21/08 shots, and post some of 'em here.  Maybe we can figure out from the angle of your lower Whiplash run-by shots where you were in that extra-long pre-booking lineup . . .    

- Roosso

p.s.  I think the troll JéBêWèX was a film holdout as well.  I vaguely remember him trying to figure out how to set his brand-new digital camera for at time exposure at Osier* on the May 25, 2010 "Greenies" charter with #489 in drag.
*  "a long time-exposure in the City of Osier" — Walt Kelly would find a song in there somewhere . . .