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Well the office, my equipment room and projection room are “de-junkified”, \u00a032 contractor bags full of junk; 35 slide trays, 2 tons of nylon and velcro sewn together into every imaginable kind of container, trust me I kept 300 lbs. of it anyway! \u00a0A stack of old magazines, paper work 8 feet tall, and soon most of 35,000 color transparencies ( that’s slides to you newbies)! \u00a0 O.K., some light exaggeration, but I did throw away all those slide trays and a lot of containers and will dump most of my 41 years of slides after a few days of making sure I pull the few that are worth keeping of posterity, my posterity, no one else will care! \u00a0Of course I will not throw away family images or anything that is historic, but most all the landscape and wildlife stuff will still hit the skids.<\/p>\n
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Why would you throw away what it took four decades to produce??!! \u00a0Digital images have become so wonderful it is very hard to use the old 35mm slides and get any thing near equal quality. \u00a0if you had a drum scanner and really knew what you were doing you could salvage some usable stuff, but the quality of current cameras, it’s hardly worth the trouble. \u00a0The only stuff I will keep will be things I can never shoot again, or any kind \u00a0of situations I may never see again, and truthfully they won’t last long.<\/p>\n
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I have loaded 8 boxes (some big) with everything Nikon I had, and it was a lot of stuff, some highly collectible, some practical, and some probably junk, but it will all go to Vinnie Colucci! Vinnie is the Nikon guy in our region and he has given his heart and soul to Nikon and he deserves this collection! Does this mean I hate Nikon or have turned my back on them? \u00a0Not at all. \u00a0For most of my life I have held a Nikon of one kind or another in my hands, and they served me well, very well! \u00a0Somewhere along the trail I woke up and was an older man, shoulder surgeries and, well, age, and I had to go lighter! \u00a0The X-System was a blessing and an answer to my prayers. \u00a0So I can still shoot high quality, retro cameras, with fantastic image quality and superb lenses, with less than half the weight!<\/p>\n
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I can’t tell you how much better I feel with so much of the junk out of my life. \u00a0Now it’s up to Photo Pro Expo to have great fellowship with some of my dear friends, and some great Graeter’s ice cream, and hopefully entertain the troops. \u00a0I will be at the Fuji booth Saturday and hope to see some of you there!<\/p>\n
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Time to scream for the sky!<\/p>\n
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Blessings,<\/p>\n
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