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Thanks Chuck!

Still just spectating unfortunately. Autocross season starts this weekend though[emoji106]


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Good luck at the Auto-x. I'm sure we will be seeing some great pictures from there. Looking forward to them.

 

I have a personal affinity for car #69 and, no... not for for that reason. That's a Porsche 914, a mid-mount, air-cooled car that was surprisingly affordable when I was in grad school (early 90's). My roommate bought one and it was the first car that I actually got my hands dirty on. Trunk up front... trunk in the back... engine hiding right behind the 2 seats. It was cranky, rusty and had an electrical system that must have been built by the candidates rejected by Lucas' HR department. It was also fun as hell to drive, especially in the winter! The bottom was covered in skid / aero plates and my roommate would ski into parking lots over the snow cast off by plows. He'd get a good run at the entrance of the parking lot and the 4 wheels would lift off of the ground as we shot over the top of the snow bank like a toboggan. Once we cleared the pile of snow at the entrance, the wheels would reconnect to pavement and we'd be fine.

 

Funny. I've got some nostalgia from the dark room I used when in grad school. I was in cell biology, so we had all sorts of x-ray radiograms and luminescent experiments where we needed a dark room, plus we did all of the film development, enlargement and printing ourselves. Our dark room had a light-proof revolving door and common practice was to walk in and, if you didn't mind company, you would rotate the door back so that the opening faced out. If you saw the door rotated towards the inside, you would knock first... way too many horny 20-somethings in the building spending way too many hours in the lab and a dark, quiet room was hard to resist! (Someone stuck a label over the revolving door, dubbing it the 'Orgazmatron.')

 

I love my Fuji cameras. I know they are digital, but they handle like analog ones.

For an old guy like me who grew up spinning dials it just feels right. Some of the young guns who are used to modern digital from NikCanon/Sony have a hard time with the old school form factor.

Prices of the XT-2 are coming down. With a new Fuji just released & anther one soon to be prices are plummeting. I'm OK with what was best 2 years ago.

 

Oh yeah, darkroom equipment. I finally tried to donate it to the local Thrift Store store, and they didn't want it. So, some of it went to the recycle bin, and the rest is in a landfill somewhere.

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So, you are in PR?

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I'll have the special with a chocolate shake.

 

Nice photos.

 

Who, ME?

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So, global warming has hit the burbs of Philly ahead of predictions.

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Very interesting shot.