Re[W&B] Knurled nuts revisited

[Milan Zahorcak]

Fred & Steve,
 
Talk about no shame . . . just wait.
 
As for Cameron, don't get me wrong, Cameron's work is only sappy now - after
untold 1000s of imitators have tried their hands at it.  For what she did,
she was the best there will ever be.  But, I find her complete lack of
technical skills alternately annoying and endearing.
 
Speaking of trying their hands at it . . . Vaseline?  Isn't Vaseline
petroleum based?   Bad for the balsam . . . there is no hidden meaning in
that, no double entendres, yet.
 
I would never use Vaseline . . . hmmm, hmmm. hmmm . . . too hard to remove .
. . and we're still talking about lens applications, folks.
 
KY Personal Lubricant is probably a better choice, water based, but I'd
avoid the Warming Jelly regardless of how enticing the thought may be.
Probably also bad for the balsam.
 
Actually, what IS a really nice touch if you're shooting B&W film, is to use
sheer black toile (ask your wives) stretched over the lens hood.  Nice thing
is that it bleeds the highlights into the shadow areas and makes things seem
to glow of their own inner light.  And for fem portraiture . . . oh my, talk
about sappy but incredibly romantic.  You might need the Warming Jelly
afterwards . . . that was the 2nd person plural "you" - not "you" in
particular Steve . . . oh, never mind, I can see that this isn't going to
get any better.
 
As for "knurled nuts" - it's interesting how you get used to using a phrase
and never even consider how it sounds to anyone else.
 
At one time, my wife's office was near one of the best hardware stores in
Portland.  I once left a message for her asking her to pick a specific order
on her way home from work.  Knurled nuts, of course.  Her receptionist, not
knowing what knurled nuts were, badly misunderstood and then misconstrued
the message.  Absolutely appalled that I would ask her to take down that
sort of thing, but did her best.  Claudia (my spouse) almost died when she
got the re-interpreted message.  I did not need the warming jelly for quite
some time after that.
 
Hmmm . . . we all do know what "knurled nuts" are, yes?   Jeez, filthy
minds.
 
mz
 
 
 
 

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Hi Milan; believe it or not, it's always fun to hear from you.

Actually, I think most of Cameron's stuff is so bad it looks like she was
using Vaseline (on her lenses, Milan!). It's a great shame, too, because in
my humble opinion her composition--though sometimes unbearably sappy--is
often lovely; and several of the portraits have great character.

For the record, I wasn't referring to the Vaseline look with the Hermagis,
but rather to a minimal central softness (?"roundness" or some similarly
slushy word), which progressively increases in the off-axis margins and
background of the plate.  Perhaps poorly corrected spherical ab, but
pleasing nevertheless in certain portraits.

Different strokes for different folks.   

Best, Steve


Hey Milan, with regard to knurled nuts, check out your own late (and
lamented) Cascade Panorama
a couple of years ago (last issue, perhaps) on the "Leica Callus".  Hmmm...,
perhaps you've done this already.     S. 

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