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[spyglass]

Spyglass, you...ah...have a lot of time on your hands lately? Cold getting to you?

For the record, no pano of Ron is going to get my hat off.

Earl.... I just don't know how much more I can take. No, it is not  the cold, or the incessant rain, or the fact that I haven't seen the sun or any trace of blue in the sky for 3 weeks, that has this little camper down.....

It was late one afternoon. There, in a store window, was my chance for happiness. Oh I know people often say things like "it was so perfect", or "it was made for me"...... It was a little but country, it was a little bit rock n roll, it was a little but Memphis and Nashville, it was a little bit of Motown in my soul, I didn't know if it was bad or good, I loved it so......

Earl it would be easy to point a finger at the cursed wind that has this little trooper walking with shoulders a droopin. I thought I was going to have one for my very own. But the wind stole it away from me and something deep inside broke. Words can not explain the feeling of watching something so perfect, the chosen one, tumbling away from you down the sidewalk.  Rolling towards a little old lady who bent over to grab for it only to lose her balance, fall, and break her hip. Bouncing along side the frantic dog in a dangerous game of chase which ended in the all too familiar dog/boy collision and ice-cream cone, several licks shy of being properly appreciated, meeting the dirt in a way that the 5 second rule can not be applied .  

No Earl, the proverbial straw that has broken this Northern Camel's back and beat its hump flat was finally catching it, out of breath, a trail of disaster stretching out behind me, and finding that the purple bowler was the wrong size.


Earl, T-man may not get your hat off you using pano magic ..... but the wind just might. In life you can try and roll with it, all breaks are not lucky, keeping your eye on the ice-cream cone is generally more satisfying than the ball, and sometimes beauty is not in the eye of the holder......  I think when it comes to putting a lid on it, I will stick with hockey helmets. If the wind can take your helmet away you have much bigger things to worry about


Good Night PentaxWorld

Spyglass

[blackcloudbrew]

Jimbo, you'd better call 911 (or whatever is the Canadian equivalent), Spyglass is loosing it.

[Ron Kruger]

Spy, I always pictured you in one of those dome-shaped hats with the ear flaps hanging down, black horn-rim glasses with coke-bottle lenses--and when you go outside, it really gets weird.

[blackcloudbrew]

Ron...shhhh! Don't encourage him.

[spyglass]

T-man.....you mean dome shaped like a beanie.... and when I go outside things get weird cause the little propeller starts to spin? As far as glasses go, no black rimmed coke bottle glasses here. They are kaleidoscopes. Everything looks better through kaleidoscopes (except food).


Spyglass

[Ron Kruger]

I'm just playing with my W80's pano feature to see what it will do for possible use underwater later. Here's a verticle.

[blackcloudbrew]

Very cool.

[spyglass]

T-man you seem to be preparing for some big upcoming underwater adventure lately...... do you know something that the rest of us don't know?  If I see you submitting a lot of paired up animals, and if I notice a lack of rainbows in the sky, I will be heading your way pronto.

Spyglass

P.S.  (I prefer a forward cabin in the upper decks, nowhere near the farting pigs)

[Ron Kruger]

No animals (including frogs) allowed, Spy, or other men for that matter, but I do plan to take two females of every nationality, as long as they meet the age and shape requirements.
I'm thinking outside the normal pano box here and planning to use it in ways I haven't seen before. I've sold two cover shots with this little W80, and had a lot of fun using it in the clear rivers and streams around here, so I'm expanding. The images I've posted here are junk, but they are giving me ideas and guidlines I can use to get keepers when it counts.
Wait until you see the pariscope I'm building to use it with this summer.

[blackcloudbrew]

Ok, seriously now (and I mean that), Ron should be the Optio W80 spokesfolk guy for Pentax. He get's more out of that camera than anybody I know. Considering that it was dubbed the worst camera of 2009 his results are impressive. Not bad guy.

[Ron Kruger]

Thanks Tim. The W90, by the way, was chosen by Outside Magazine as the best equipment of the year, or something like that.
I personally think the W80 is far to complicated and sophisticated for the idiots it's aimed at. Too many options, mode, bells and whistles, and to get the most out of it, you need to at least know how to click on "auto exposure" in processing.
Way too much for people who think they've mastered photography because they can find the shutter release button.

[spyglass]

Ya I'm with T-man all the way...... "who teached 'em.... weren't they learned when they was youngins"