Re: 6x17 on 4x5

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 30 Dec 99 at 17:38, Mitchell P. Warner wrote:

> >
> >If you really want to show off your power and prowess, you can probably
> >still get hot-rod flame decals from Epson and stick them on your simon/wide.
> >Otherwise, you're wasting bandwidth that would be better used for sincere
> >requests and helpful responses about photography.
> >
> >-- Amanda Chase
> >amandachase@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Perhaps something is missing here?  Intent?
> 
> Simon seems to have only one goal:   To share his experiences, thereby
> giving a sense of history, showing how some 'techi' solutions of the past
> and if he has made a mistake and profited from it, to share that knowledge,
> thus saving us skinned knees if possible.
> 
> At 70+ years, nearly blind, paralyzed on one side of his body from a
> stroke, I salute his willingness to learn computer technology so that he
> could share his experiences; his quick acceptance of digital panoramic work
> as creating yet another 'defination' of the type of image so difficult to
> limit with definations but so easy to recognize by any layman. 

Hearhear!
To me, Simon is *the* role model of a devoted senior on the web, despite his 
limitations.
My hat off to him, hope I will be that active, persisting & stubborn 
when (if) I am his age. 








 

--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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