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i can't sleep!

it's 12:10 a.m. and i can't sleep, just tossing and turning, wide awake in bed.

thought i'd see what's happening here.
not too much it seems.

ok, listen to this, tonite's weather report for the upcoming week. snow flurries on wednesday and thursday.
snow already!
usually it waits for holloween and freezes those poor trick or treaters.

i sometimes wonder what the heck i'm doing here, living in the frozen north. we barely had summer this year. a couple of weeks of kinda nice weather and warm temps.
i'm a dual citizen, maybe i should find a nice warm spot back home and move there. new mexico, arizona...

i was thinking earlier this evening, wondering actually, if there were any famous canon photographers?
i did a search but of course 99% of the info with the word 'canon' in it came up digital.
nothing about the old cameras, the rangefinders.

i did the same search but substituted leica for canon and there was lots more info, naturally.
so, does anyone know of any famous shooters or photos that used canon rf cams?
(like the p?)

ok, i'm rambling i think. tired but not sleepy!
anyone have insomnia?
i get it occasionally, maybe once a year for a few weeks, it can drive ya crazy.

good nite, i hope,

joe
 
funny summer in central Ontario, I am 100 miles north of Toronto, and many many leaves down, I have a big maple which has shed many red and golden leaves, everything still on the tree and there are lots are still green, but that is pretty early for leaf gravity operations. cool summer, and then for Labour Day weekend, four days of high temperatures, three with high humidity, and right now it is raining. I was bad today and took an SLR and prime lenses to a local preserved marsh, not my rangefinder - my second hand Nikon F2 - along with three Nikkors: 20mm f4, 35mm f2, 50mm f2, and a Tamron SP 90mm Macro f2.5 - a test of how much heavy gear I want to tote on a trip I have planned for early October - although it may be snow tire time by then.....you never know. I may just go with a Bessa R, CV 35 f2.5, Nokton 50mm f1.5, Leitz Hektor 135 f4.5, and a Jupiter 9 85 mm f2 - much lighter load for me, the sherpa.

All that humidity kind of torpedoed my normal sleep pattern.

I cant shed any light on your Canon users of fame or high regard. I have admired the Canon RF cameras - but slapping myself - enough gear, enough gear, enough gear.

regards from another part of the Canadian weather experimental lab.

Bill
 
I think it's Francesc Català-Roca who did his wonderful Barcelona/Madrid series with a Leica M2 BUT... a nice Canon 35/1.8. I'll tell you something more later, it's in my homework for today :)

As for insomnia, I usually spend 1-2 hours in bed turning into every available position without finding any comfortable one. Heat and humidity may have also something to do with that, so I end sleeping 5-6 hours a day.

does anyone know of any famous shooters or photos that used canon rf cams?
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Yes ! I know of one ! His name is backalley-something ! ;) :D
 
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Can't seem to face up to the facts.
Tense and nervous, can't relax.
Can't sleep, bed's on fire.
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire.
Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away


That's how I always feel after a night of insomnia. Good luck today!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Before you go to sleep try a Scarpia egg cream. An egg cream is a NYC concoction consisting of milk, chocolate syrup and seltzer water or club soda. First put in 2 oz. milk into a 12 oz. glass, add a liberal dollop of chocolate syrup (in NY we use Fox's U-BET, but any one will do). Stir and fill with seltzer water. The Scarpia variation- add one jigger of brandy, drink and you shall sleep soundly.
Dorma! Kurt M.
 
I find that a shot of NyQuil does the same thing. One shot and you feel that warm feeling creep up your chest, then you make the ugly NyQuil face and you're in the coma. Better be in bed at the time, 'cause you just fall over.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
The egg cream tastes better, Bill. You're right about the NyQuil face. Sleep well.
Kurt M.
 
Joe, here's a non-herbal solution. I can lend you the book I've been trying to read at bedtime: What Philosophers Think. Faster than NyQuil!

Gene
 
Scarpia said:
The egg cream tastes better, Bill. You're right about the NyQuil face. Sleep well.
Kurt M.
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I'm of the opinion that things which knock you out should not taste good - or they become too much fun altogether. Like cigs until I gave 'em up.

NyQuil makes me sorry I drank it - but it does the job. Makes me have to ask myself - how much do I really want to go to sleep?

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
well, i'm hoping to just fall gently to sleep tonite.
if not i'll pretty much try anything.

kurt, i was born in brooklyn and raised in queens, richmond hill to be exact. been making egg creams since i was a kid! of course the best store bought ones was at 'chester's' candy store, around the corner from my place.

gene, i have trifocals, not a hope in hell of reading in bed these days.
bill, meds and most drugs have never made me sleepy. i could never understand those warnings about not operating heavy machinery.
joe
 
If Gene's solution is better than ours he must be going to sleep with the light on. As my wife generally is asleep before I am, I will hear about this in the morning.
Kurt M,
 
Joe, born and brung up in Brooklyn. I now live in Jackson Hts., Queens most of the year except for the summer when I live in Warrensburg, NY. What a summer this has been.
Kurt M.
 
my cousin phyliss lives in jackson heights.
my old neighborhood is a distant memory. went back a few years ago for my step-dad's funeral. everything seemed so much smaller.
i miss the food. new york pizza, bagels and real pastrami.
and i'd kill for a real cannoli.

joe
 
You think you New Yawk types could keep it down? Some of us down-east types are trying to sleep here.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
whadyamean down east types?
newyawk is the east.

you are now a southern gentleman bill, best to mind yoawl manners...;)
 
Take another teaspoon of NyQuil Bill.
Joe, Jackson Hts. has become the most multi ethnic neighborhood in the world. South Americans, East Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Russians, Koreans, etc., etc. My wife who is Japanese says it is the new Silk Road. There is no food you cannot find in the local shops. Makes it hard to stick to the South Beach diet.
Cannoli too. Oddly. there is a little bakery in Little Italy, all block and a half of it in JDOS land (Cleveland) which has the best cannoli I have ever had. My daughter who works in Cleveland takes me there on our rare visits.
Kurt M.
 
the cannolis here are just terrible, not even close to a new york one, completely different filling.

ok, i gotta stop, getting way too homesick.

joe
 
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