Rant: Why I Hate Living in a Small Town.

[trittium]

You could process your own e6. Here is the kit

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...s&Q=&sku=168849&is=REG&addedTroughType=search

The chems last 2 weeks, they aren't too too nasty. The only catch is you need a good thermometer and a big sink. The chems, tank, and film, must be 38+/- 1 degrees celcius during the whole processing. It is a little chaotic the first few times, but one you get the motions down, it is just as easy as black and white. The only problem you will have with being in a small town is chemical disposal.

 

[ywenz]

plus, it sucks because there's nothing to take pictures of.

 

[Michael I.]

No it wasnt the Velvets, but you know Lou shoots a leica?

I know he has a picture holding a scre mount pentax - and in one of teh articles i read about warhol and the velvet underground someone says "and then I took lou's pentax"

I also know that George Harrison was often seen with a pentax (sv?) in the heydays of tyeh beatles(his camera is used by ringo in a long days night)

 

[flipflop]

Po-DunK Tallahassee Florida...the states capital...I have no clue how that happend. We have 1 pro lab here who do a pretty good job. A little expensive but at least the negs/slides are clean.
7.00 bucks a roll for slides.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

you know...I live in a major city and i'm sure that most of the labs here send slide film away to the next province for processing. I'm not sure why though...

Mailers are your friend. Treat the delay as a winnograndian break from your chromes so that you might approach them with some detachment 🙂 Of course, I tend to forget what I've taken photos of at times.

 

[BrianShaw]

Po-DunK Tallahassee Florida...the states capital...I have no clue how that happend. We have 1 pro lab here who do a pretty good job. A little expensive but at least the negs/slides are clean.
7.00 bucks a roll for slides.

"Po-dunk" Los Angeles CA... the nation's film capital. We have lots of pro-labs but the best one in my area takes 7 - 10 working days for anything 'film'. "Everyone (except for you) has gone digital", they say. A lot slow, but at least the quality is good.

Moral of the story: patience is a virtue. Now... why is the RFF so darned slow sometimes 😕

 

[captainslack]

Michael I: The song is called "Smalltown" and it's off an album he did with John Cale called Songs for Drella. It was a tribute to Andy Warhol.

I grew up in a small (very, very, VERY small) town and that song pretty much sums up my feels toward it. The last verse especially so:

When you’re growing up in a small town
You know you’ll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town:

You hate it and you’ll know you have to leave

Stephanie: Do yourself a favor: MOVE!!! Go to Des Moines or someplace. You'll be happier in the long run.

 

[tedwhite]

Generally speaking, it seems that if you're young big cities are where you want to be. Exciting, the best career opportunities, museums, galleries, the Theatre, universities, etc.

However, when you hit fifty, you wake up one morning, stare woefully out the window into a smog-laden drizzle, prepare to face a one-hour snail-paced commute, and think, I gotta get outa here and smell some roses.

At that stage in life, the small town seems suddenly attractive.

 

[BrianShaw]

Generally speaking, it seems that if you're young big cities are where you want to be. Exciting, the best career opportunities, museums, galleries, the Theatre, universities, etc.

However, when you hit fifty, you wake up one morning, stare woefully out the window into a smog-laden drizzle, prepare to face a one-hour snail-paced commute, and think, I gotta get outa here and smell some roses.

At that stage in life, the small town seems suddenly attractive.

I just turned 50... and you're quite right! Unfortuately I'm married to a younger woman - by the time she has the same realization I'll probably be so old I won't want to move. Sometimes being stuck in a big city is no better than being stuck in a small town!

 

[sychan]

You could also get a digital SLR.... 😱

Wash your mouth out! 😀

Yeah, you don't need a DSLR. Even a good quality digital P&S. Just to keep up the whole retro appeal, maybe get something out of production like an Konica-Minolta 😀

 

[grizzz]

It's funny how we always want what we don't have available. I have e6 same day in a building right next door to my local pub (and yes that is nice). I also spend as much as 10 hours a week in my car and I don't use my car for work ( and I put less than 100 miles on it a week). I'd love to live in a small town but can't seem to find work there. Evey time I visit my family in Florida I swear I'm not going back. GAS attacks make me work though :bang: ...... Tis life I guess...

 

[Rob]

In the good old days I could walk across the 4 lane road from my office and get pro lab 2 hour E6 processing. Then they moved, then I moved offices. Then they quit doing E6. So I started doing more digital. Now I have to drive 20 miles round trip to get 3 day service...
Mailers are cheap, but so slow you will forget what in the heck was on those rolls so its kinda like christmas when you get them back not knowing what they are.

 

[Trius]

I like instant gratification and I also like anticipation. What's a guy to do? Think of mailers as chrome foreplay.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'll be moving next year...I'm not going to attempt it until then. I'm going to try my damnedest to get into the photography program at Hawkeye Tech...which means I'll be living in Waterloo...Water Falls...Cedar Loo...er...well, that place over there. Not in the dorms, though. I'm hoping to find myself a job and a place in the year and a half or so I have before I'd start school. I'm only not starting this year because I'm pretty sure I couldn't get in yet and I really don't want to uproot myself *that* fast.

 

[yossarian]

I like instant gratification and I also like anticipation. What's a guy to do? Think of mailers as chrome foreplay.

As much as I enjoy foreplay, I don't have the stamina to make it for 14 days. If Fuji
just had ONE east coast lab...

And as for small towns, I love them, but nobody will allow them to remain small.
Invariably Mall Wart has to slither in and ruin everything.

Fred

 

[dazedgonebye]

Phoenix is no small town and I'd have to drive 30 miles or so...in cross town traffic...during banker's hours...to get to a lab that does E6. Hell, it's the same story for black and white. Yes, I know I should just do that myself.

 

[Scarpia]

Generally speaking, it seems that if you're young big cities are where you want to be. Exciting, the best career opportunities, museums, galleries, the Theatre, universities, etc.

However, when you hit fifty, you wake up one morning, stare woefully out the window into a smog-laden drizzle, prepare to face a one-hour snail-paced commute, and think, I gotta get outa here and smell some roses.

At that stage in life, the small town seems suddenly attractive.

I am well past 50 and retired and spend most of the summer and fall in a small town, the rest of the time in New york City. Frankly, after smelling the roses for three months I get hay fever. I love the big city although getting away now and then is nice. My wife loves gardening but the only thing that attracts me are the photo opportunities and the lack of NYC heat waves.
Kurt M.