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Zatoichi by Kitano was FAB!

Dobermann, a french film, is also fab. The violence is of a sort you don't often see in a movie: very real and brutal. It shocked me, which is something that hardly ever happened.

Lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels is great too, and even the "sequel" Snatch is worth watching.

And a film best seen when under the influence of mind altering substances (be that focusing fluid or different) is Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
 
Oh, Fight club is also a good movie.

And then there are a slew of Jet Li kungfu movies that are good movies too.

Hmmm, I'm seeing a trend in my movies.... 🙂
 
OK, if you want my oppinion on fight-type movies - they are not really my cup of coffee, but there is one that i really really enjoyed, rather new thai movie called "Ong-Bak: Muay Thai warrior". Now that movie, although built around a stupid story, is a spectacular production.
 
Here is my tribute to lesser known rangefinders. In 1960 I purchased a Beauty Super II rangefinder from a New York mail order firm for $35 (I was a senior in high school and was on a very limited budget). This camera, made by Taiyodo Koki of Japan, turned out to be a winner. Its fixed Canter f/2.0 45mm lens produced sharp images and its Copal SV shutter had a self-timer and speeds from 1 to 1/500 sec. - great improvements over the Argus C3 I had been using.

The Beauty Super II was my only camera until 1970 when I began using a Canon FT-QL SLR. During the 1960s I served in the Peace Corps in South America and did a lot of hard traveling and picture taking. The sturdy Beauty Super II was my constant companion and never let me down. It was the greatest photographic buy and bargain in my 45+ years as a photographer.

The meter pictured with the camera is a Walz Norwood Super Director that also dates from the early 1960s. Like the camera, it still works.
 
GeneW said:
Oldprof, these are downright beautiful!

And I'll bet they speak Latin ... 😉

Gene
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As a matter of fact I did take two years of Latin in high school. The main outcome was that I can still sing "Jingle Bells" in Latin. 😀
 
Oldprof said:
As a matter of fact I did take two years of Latin in high school. The main outcome was that I can still sing "Jingle Bells" in Latin. 😀
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LOL! I remember trooping around Gallia with Caesar but it was long ago and it's kinda faded from memory ...
 
Raised Catholic - how can you avoid Latin?

Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo. Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus, Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus.

Pax,

Bill Mattocks
 
The Retina IIa 50mm F2 Xenon is sharp, very sharp. I tend to use the IIIc more, as it accommodates eye glasses better than the IIa. It took me a LONG time and MANY STUPID LOOKS to figure out how to re-assemble the film advance on the IIa and get the exposure lockout to work. I ended up using dental floss to hold the "claw of death" back while screwing the advance down.
 
Jorge it will become a lifetime famous & copied thread ! 😎

And sorry for the OT, but Pherdi just has to see this 🙂
 
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