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     Mike_rgb Tinkerer Username: Mike_rgb Post Number: 32 Registered: 08-2006 Rating: N/A |
Hi all You can still go to wally World, Sams & all the 1 hour pull and scratch Drug stores. However the one great lab next to Pennys has closed. ( Owner sold out ) He did not do Slides & true B&W there, but drop them off & they did them in Ashville by next day or 2. I have not called the new owner yet because he did not decide how he was going Digi or Film or both. I don't hunt any longer however when I did it was a Recurve, I used it for 24 years. I watched the parts including feathered arrows & reurve strings & parts dry up. A machine that took a machine to restring it's self swept the land. Not so different from the Digis displacing the Film Cameras & parts. Is there a point to my story? Perhaps. Today Recurves are being made again by Companies who once said Compounds had buried the Long/Recurve Bows. Poppy Cock far from it, a small but ever growing number of Bow shooters began to discover the Long & Recurve Bows again. Now try to buy either Long or Recurve & you will find a long line & don't forget to bring plenty of $$. My hope & dream is see a resurgence in film use despite the road spikes that seem to keep comming at us. I spent 3 years learning my Nikons, Zeiss Ikon Contessa & print film. My plans for this season was to learn true B&W & Slide film. I have been buying new & like new Slide making equipment. Two like new projectors & a Silver Screen a School sold for $10.00 very good & large. Now is time for what they call a reality check. Should I sell that custom Recurve that has never been shot? I hurt my back before I had a chance to pull it, well another time another story. Should I just admit it? If I choose to use film & I do. Must I also, choose to develop my own Film now & for as long as I need to? All & any suggestions welcome Mike |