Traveling to Colorado with LF?

External Since: Nov 30, 2004 Posts: 415

"Dr. Georg N.Nyman" <gnnyman DeleteThis @swissonline.ch> wrote in message
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> [...]
> But a more serious comment - I have offered an in-depth training in
> optics, optical systems, imaging theory, aberrations etc to many
> professional photographers and none of them is interested to understand
> what they are doing - is this not strange?

No it is not strange. In fact, for all practical purposes, they do know what
they are doing. If a person does a lot of photography in the spirit of
discovery, he can aquire an intuitive understanding of the visual vocabulary
of the medium without understandng the physics.

Further, the average druge photographer needs to know very little at all to
get along. In my humble experience, it is the least visually oriented of
individuals who feels compelled to spend most of his time in the physics of
photography.

External Since: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 12

Thom wrote:
I wish I could remember the name of that store near the old Denver Dry
   >>>goods that moved catty corner from Ch6 years ago. I got my RB-67 from
   >>>them in 1978 or 79?
  >>
  >>Could that have been Lindahl's? They were in downtown Denver for many
  >>years. I remember them on Court Place, then moving not too far from the
  >>Denver Dry Goods store (now Wolf's, formerly Robert Waxman's). Lindahl's
  >>later moved just south of downtown, onto perhaps Acoma or Bannock,
  >>finally resettling on a corner a couple of blocks from there.
>
>
> YESSSS thats it, thank you.

You're welcome. Lindahl's was a Denver mainstay for years. They had a
knowledgeable staff in addition to lots of professional supplies. They
also featured an excellent repair facility in-house.

   >>>The only other pro stockhouse that I can remember from that general
  >>timeframe in the downtown area was Ossen's. When I shopped there,
  >>Ossen's shared a warehouse building with Rocky Mountain Moulding. But
  >>they were in the area now known as LoDo, not too far from Coors Field,
  >>where the Colorado Rockies play baseball.
>
>
> Ossens??? If its the place Tom from Camron worked it was across the
> street from where Ch6 is.

Once I recalled the name, I later remembered them moving somewhere in
the general area you mention. When they left their shared warehouse
building, Rocky Mountain Moulding moved south on Santa Fe or
thereabouts. The Ossen pro photo stockhouse moved perhaps somewhere in
the "Golden Triangle" area just south of downtown. I now remember
shopping there, but can't for the life of me place the exact location.

Gee, I hope those folks coming to Colorado for large-format shooting
don't wander into this end of the message thread, and then go looking
for these stores for supplies. These two stores, and some of the others
we discussed, are long gone.

Regards. ...pt

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