Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] three questions: C41 b/w film; Mamiya DM22; why no US version of GF1 w 20mm kit?
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:06:09 -0400
References: <19b6d42d1003272213l512b02f2m2f28f7ddcd82d132@mail.gmail.com> <4BB1575D.9010500@cox.net> <19b6d42d1003292005i232b2aa2oe312204e8a044fba@mail.gmail.com> <23AC56C7-DE39-4BED-8054-85224F6B94F1@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292032q7ba0c0f3n8ca6371c24bc0973@mail.gmail.com> <42887A3A-152D-43FF-9ADF-AD77A5EE08B4@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292049v465921fbm6226478298695b18@mail.gmail.com> <03A6434D-F42B-4C3C-9BAB-89D6F99FC2E6@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003292056n7c5bc6fdj6704614000fa76c7@mail.gmail.com>

Isn't that ILFORD on 115 W Century Road in Paramus?  Not so much the 
corprate park as compared with Fairfield NJ.  Paramus is the Mall 
capital of the East coast.  My mom is buried not far from there, in 
George Washington Memorial park.

-rei



On 03/29/2010 11:56 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
> Yeah maybe one day. But I also like the possibility that I've confirmed I
> was right the first time.
>
> Plus I have a sentimental attachment to Kodak and a distaste for Ilford.
> Photographer I worked for in the early 80s sent me out by goddam Port
> Authority bus and shank's mare as my grandmother used to say on a blasting
> summer day to some god awful corporate castle in New Jersey of Ilford's to
> pick up some kind of special paper he wanted. Then he was pissed it took me
> so long. I'm talking like a mile and a half in blank Jersey industrial park
> at 96 degrees.  Then bus.
>
> So it's hard to love Ilford.
>
> Meanwhile people ask other's people's opinions here ALL THE TIME SO WHAT'S
> THE BIG DEAL ALLUVA SUDDEN?
>
>    



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