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Originally Posted by Klondike
Charlie, guys like you are an extremely valuable commodity at OCC. I hope that the lack of thanks will not deter you from continuing to post from your vast collection. When you dangle terms like "tens of thousands" with reference to how many pics you have taken, my pulse quickens a bit. It would be my privilege to have in my collection the complete works....
Klondike
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LOL, I don't think you'd want the 'complete works'. I hope you noted that I said, "of which I have tens of thousands of pics, maybe hundreds of thousands on various subjects", especially the 'various subjects'. I'm not a professional, never had any camera courses, but I always loved taking pictures and have sometimes found it to be a ticket to other things. In the late 60's, while working in the nearby 'metropolis', I'd sometimes happen across a car wreck to and from work. I'd stop and shoot a few pics, then sell the undeveloped roll of film - delivered - to the newspaper. Sometimes they'd use it and sometimes they'd just tell me it was over exposed. I also shot pics at the drag races and car shows. When I got my first coverage in one of the hot rod mags I thought I was king. Once you get a 'tear sheet' it's easier to get a 'press' pass. All I ever wanted was to get up close in the pits at the drag races. I've got over 2 dozen 16"x12"x12" boxes that are full of negatives. Of course some of the rolls are not fully exposed. I didn't understand how to use the camera settings but I knew how to focus and when to use the different ISO types, so when ever I'd move from sun to overcast I'd change film, lol. I'd buy film in bulk to save some money and process the negatives myself. I'd then use a lupe to see which ones to have printed. At one time I had 3 14" rolls of sleeves for negatives. It wasn't until the mid 90's that I bought a Kodak S20 negative scanner, the best non-commercial scanner ever made. Unfortunately the software for it doesn't work with anything beyond Windows 98. So I had to buy another scanner or use one of the older(full) computers. Fortunately a few companies still make scanners that will handle the older 2 3/8" x 2 3/8" negatives and the even older 2 5/8" x 4 1/4" negatives. I've still got the Brownie 'Hawkeye' camera that I used as well as a carton of blue Sylvania flash bulbs. Am I a pack rat or hoarder? What's the difference, lol?
Anyway, I used to shoot anything and everything, girls, cars, fireworks, motorcycles, buildings, animals, family, you name it. When I retired in 2002 I started scanning some stuff in my spare time when I wasn't working in the garden. A few years ago I gave DVD's to family members with several thousand family pics. My count of 'tens of thousands' of pics of the 'adult' nature is speculative but I think realistic if not conservative. I base it on the fact that I've been riding bikes for what is now 50 years. For the past 40 years I've attended an average of a half dozen 'big' biker rallies each year in addition to other events. I used to carry at least 8 rolls of film to each event, many times more. Since the advent of 'digital' I used to carry a whole carton of floppy disk, and 3 batteries, when I was using the first Sony Mavica, in addition to the 2 Minolta 650's. And later when I started using the Olympus E10 and the current Canon, I carry 2 disk and 3 batteries. For example, the Black Bike Week event that I'm currently posting from was shot in '97, thus the FC97xxx file names and consist of 824 pics of which I've re-scanned about 400. When I originally scanned them I used PowerPost A&A 11b to post them in one of the 'alt.binaries.black' newsgroups, so they've been posted elsewhere before in a lower resolution.
BTW, Mudbug, you need to go back and edit the last sentence in your post to say 'NOT' all that terrible, lol. I've said it before but it can't be said too often, many 'Thanks' to the moderators here. No forum can survive without the support of a good group of moderators.
P.S.- Mudbug, I see you edited your post before I got this message finished, bravo.