Lou,
That was such a humorous picture you painted I couldn't stop laughing.
I think it would make good sit com episode of Earl.
Sill laughing.
Thank You so much!
Kathleen

On 11/12/07, Lou <[address removed]> wrote:
>
>
> I mentioned a couple weeks ago about a camera "flea market swap meet" event
> in Wayne, NJ., I would suggest it be avoided unless you are interested in,
> my opinion, very questionable quality 35 mm only vintage type cameras (I
> emphasize questionable).
>
> I went with my son because he lives about 20 min's from where the event is
> held and it gave us a chance to visit his family and our grand daughter. We
> were greeted by a huge man who looked as if he was out of the Ozarks
> including the "Bib Overalls" snarled beard about 350 lbs 6'4" yelling at a
> very old lady at the top of his lungs informing her she breaks everything
> numerous times (15) at least. Either she couldn't get out of the 20 year old
> broken down car or she broke something getting into it I don't know, but I
> don't think I would have wanted to live my life that way.
>
> After that episode, we walked in and it got worse (if you think it
> couldn't). The place even smelled like mildew due to the ancient equipment
> set up on about 100 tables by maybe 50 venders. The stuff was so worthless
> they had "make an offer" boxes full of items. The only person who had what I
> would consider a wide variety of older half decent SLR film equipment was
> packing up because someone stole a[masked] dollar item. I did happen to buy a
> nice (older) camera bag from him (10 bucks) but he was in no mood to talk
> about anything.
>
> I was walking around with that when one of the venders (Gypsy
> possibly) asked if I had anything to sell, I did bring my Nikon FE and 2
> Tamron lenses with me so I brought them in, after careful examination he
> asked me what I wanted [masked]) including the 35-80 and[masked] Tamron Zoom
> lenses, I realize they are vintage and not exceptional quality but they are
> in excellent condition, better than anything I saw there, I felt that was a
> fair asking price. But it's no big deal, in an emergency I have them.
>
> As far as digital, absolutely nothing at all. Feel free to ask me any
> questions, it is an interesting event to go if in the area, but not a
> special trip, if you want to remises and possibly discuss old cameras, I
> don't know enough about the subject to appreciate all the vintage equipment
> or hold an intelligent enough conversation about anything in photography,
> I'm more of a person taking snap shots hoping to accidentally take a good
> one.
>
> Your "special" club member, Lou (Louise) See you next meeting (one way or
> the other)
>
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