[PRCo] Re: Roberta

[Fred Schneider]

He's not that far off the mark, Ken.   Remember that Argus was in the  
business before the era of computer grinding of lenses.   I was told  
by my father (the second generation photographer and perhaps no more  
an expert on this than I might be) that Argus simply assembled  
cameras from a bunch of parts and that their quality control was  
somewhere down below ideal.   I had a friend with an Argus C3 and I  
can assure you that it wasn't the sharpest knife in the box.  Many of  
us burnt up a lot of film before we learned that good pictures  
required good glass and that good optics cost money.   I was 17 when  
I bought my first decent 6x6 reflex but even after that my first two  
35mm cameras were crap.   Now I understand that if the lens sells for  
$1,000,  take that money away from McDonalds.

I was just trying to determine if the printing job was bad or if the  
camera was faulty.

The woman actually had a sense of art and its a shame she didn't have  
the money for a better camera.

On Oct 2, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Be nice, Boris...;-)
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> K.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:03 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Roberta
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>> Soap box.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:01 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Roberta
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>>> Ken:
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>>> What camera was Roberta using?
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>>> fws
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