PenMan1
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The wife had to drive into Gotham for a job interview today, so I decided to tag along. I had a list! There is some stuff you just can't get in suburbia!
First on my list (and in my budget) was a brand new 18% neutral density card or photo gray card. While I didn't expect to find one here in heaven, I did expect one in the Ninth Largest Metro Area in the U.S. one of the 25th largest populations in the world.
I took my "stock number" from my 1972 photo gray card with me. I went to the first location of the "World's Largest Camera Retail Store" (and after checking, they are a few billion cameras short of Wal-Mart and short a few tens of thousand outlets, too).
The first location didn't have one (or a neutral density filter, that I could use on white paper). Tried location two who said it was not in the computer, so it had never been made- so forget the Eastman Kodsk Part Number that I copied from my ruined card. Location three told me that "cameras don't see gray" and that is why newspapers mark with gray pencils. And finally, location four, where the salesman informed me that the "new" cameras (and on sale at his location) use laser beams that digitally transmit this information to gps satellites for much more critical color rendition. I might have bought a camera to reward this moron for his creative thinking. Except when I asked "which satellite" he said the ones on the MARTA BUSES!
Oh well, I guess I'll use "laser paper". Maybe it will auto connect me to the MARTA satellite.
First on my list (and in my budget) was a brand new 18% neutral density card or photo gray card. While I didn't expect to find one here in heaven, I did expect one in the Ninth Largest Metro Area in the U.S. one of the 25th largest populations in the world.
I took my "stock number" from my 1972 photo gray card with me. I went to the first location of the "World's Largest Camera Retail Store" (and after checking, they are a few billion cameras short of Wal-Mart and short a few tens of thousand outlets, too).
The first location didn't have one (or a neutral density filter, that I could use on white paper). Tried location two who said it was not in the computer, so it had never been made- so forget the Eastman Kodsk Part Number that I copied from my ruined card. Location three told me that "cameras don't see gray" and that is why newspapers mark with gray pencils. And finally, location four, where the salesman informed me that the "new" cameras (and on sale at his location) use laser beams that digitally transmit this information to gps satellites for much more critical color rendition. I might have bought a camera to reward this moron for his creative thinking. Except when I asked "which satellite" he said the ones on the MARTA BUSES!
Oh well, I guess I'll use "laser paper". Maybe it will auto connect me to the MARTA satellite.
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