Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I warmly remember slide shows of my youth. Invariably, someone would return from Europe (European vacations were still a big deal then) and invite the neighbors to dinner. The dinner, of course, was the bribe to sit through the slide show. A one-tray show was tolerable. A two-tray show usually meant you really had earned your feed. Most of the comments were along the lines of, "Now this is one of the most be-yootiful Cathedrals in alla Yurp." Whirr, Ka-chunk "If you could see past that lady's back, which is in front of the bus, you'd see the famous Danube river. It wasn't really blue like in the song." The all-time best slide came from a local family who'd visited Africa. Evidently missionaries had made it to the village some time before, and convinced the women to adopt the Western modesty fetish. So, we were treated to a National-Geographicesque slide of a woman with a basket on her head, clad only in fabric skirt and white brassiere. My mother said, "I dreamt I went to the watering hole in my Maidenform Bra." Jim Shulman Bryn Mawr, PA Who will have a slide show on Sunday for Friends. Long live Velvia 100F! -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Dan C Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 9:45 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Kodak slide projectors are no more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11563-2004Nov25.html or http://tinyurl.com/4xj5q You may have to sign in to read the page. For those unwilling, here is a copy of the first bit: "With the Last of Kodak's Slide Projectors, a Family Tradition Slips Out of Focus By Hank Stuever Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 25, 2004; Page C01 The last of the Eastman Kodak slide projectors was manufactured in Upstate New York in October, and then no more, the company has announced, after nearly seven decades and 35 million projectors sold." -dan c. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information