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Originally Posted by photolitherland
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... I always hang out at the Houston Camera Exchange, one of the souths best camera stores imo and I always see people in their with incredible camera equipment but see their photos, and they suck a lot of the time. Pisses me off. Then theres other people that own nicer shit than me and I have to explain to them what aperture means and how to use their cameras on manual settings. Oh well.
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The gadget technology has evolved, but the activity hasn't.
Nearly fifty years ago I used to hang out occasionally at Wiles Camera Shop on Kirkwood Avenue, just off the IU campus in Bloomington, Indiana. One of the regular customers was a woman who would arrive in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and bring her top-of-the-line Leica rangefinder camera into the store. The proprietor would load a 36-exposure roll of Kodachrome and make the appropriate settings for the day's weather, and she'd go out for an afternoon of picture-taking.
When she finished, she'd come back to the store and the owner would rewind the film and send it to the lab for processing. I never saw any of her slides, but I probably wouldn't have been impressed.