Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread frank theriault
On 6/26/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank ... you've become way to self-referential lately. Really? > It doesn't become > you. Dear me. I guess I'll stop then. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Graywolf
That is not hard to do, anyone who can think would not work for that pay . graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan"

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Graywolf
It is if that is the best they can do with correction. That is the key point with legally blind. A lot of us can not see any better with our glasses off, but that is how they see with their glasses on. If your vision is fully correctable you are not legally blind no matter how bad it is without

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread John Dallman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shel Belinkoff) wrote: > BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. There > are at least three legally blind photographers living and working in > the San Francisco area ... Yup: one came in the camera shop where I worked

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Butch Black
Shel Belinkoff wrote: 20/200 is considered "legally" blind... To clarify: Someone is legally blind if their vision is 20/200 after they put their glasses on. They are not legally blind if their vision can be corrected to better than 20/200. Tom Reese That makes more sense to me. I would be

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread P. J. Alling
As long as you know there's no point is stating the obvious... frank theriault wrote: On 6/26/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Proof and Pentax BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer.

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Tom Reese
Shel Belinkoff wrote: 20/200 is considered "legally" blind... To clarify: Someone is legally blind if their vision is 20/200 after they put their glasses on. They are not legally blind if their vision can be corrected to better than 20/200. Tom Reese

RE: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
20/200 is considered "legally" blind, Butch. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Butch Black > WRT the blind photographer shooting the manual focus camera, I don't believe > 20/200 is even close to blind. I have 20/100 and my prescription is not that > severe. I'm sure the list must have an o

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Frank ... you've become way to self-referential lately. It doesn't become you. Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > > > BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. > > > > Hell, half the "photographers" I deal with are blind, I am sure. > > > > William Rob

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: Proof and Pentax I think I've had some color blind printers process my films at the drug store. :-) All printer techs are colour blind. Part of the hiring process is to weed out peple who can see and think. William Robb

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Sullivan
I think I've had some color blind printers process my films at the drug store. :-) On 6/26/05, Butch Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. There are > at least three legally blind photographers living and working in the San > Francisco

RE: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Butch Black
BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. There are at least three legally blind photographers living and working in the San Francisco area that I know of ... their work is remarkable in that at least two of them do their own printing as well as making photos, and one uses a

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Graywolf" Subject: Re: Proof and Pentax I certainly could take photographs although they would have to empathize shape and color rather than detail. Tom (Tony Sweet) Rittenhouse WW

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Scott Loveless
Have a look at the John Dugdale exhibit at http://johnstevenson-gallery.com/dugdale_2003_lead.html He's photographer blinded by an illness a little over ten years ago. There is quite a bit of information about how he works. It's an interesting read. View Camera Magazine also published an article

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Graywolf
Legally blind and blind are too entirely different things. Without my glasses I am legally blind (of course being correctable I am not actually), but I do not bump into things and can actually recognize people. I certainly could take photographs although they would have to empathize shape and c

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. I like the idea of a blind photog. Except when a photo is taken, I would would like a description of the photogs perseptions, and feelings of what is going on a

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread frank theriault
On 6/26/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > Subject: Proof and Pentax > > > > > > > > BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. > > Hell, half the "photographers" I deal with are blind, I am sure. > > Will

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-26 Thread David Mann
On Jun 26, 2005, at 6:29 PM, David Savage wrote: BTW, Russell Crowe is a Kiwi, not an Aussie. So watch out for David Mann if you ever come across him. (sorry Dave) Well you aussies keep claiming our celebrities anyway. Normally we cry foul but we'll let you have this one. Please, take him

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-25 Thread David Savage
Can't help you with what camera it was Shel. But when I first saw it I remember thinking it looked like a Pentax. For those who haven't seen Proof, the blind photographer is played by Hugo Weaving. Better known as Agent Smith in the Matrix movies or as Lord Elrond in the Lord of the Rings. It also

Re: Proof and Pentax

2005-06-25 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Proof and Pentax BTW, don't laugh too hard at the idea of a blind photographer. Hell, half the "photographers" I deal with are blind, I am sure. William Robb