Hi, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 12:05:07 PM, Cotty wrote:
> I have a copy of Martin Evening's excellent book 'Adobe Photoshop 7 for > Photographers' to give away for just the cost of the postage. I already have the book, I just want the glory and fame! > 1) Who wanted the name and address of 'that lonely elevator girl' in The > Americans ? Jack Kerouac > 2) How many bottles of wine is Michel Gabriel carrying? Two. (rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1954) By the way, he's probably put them down by now. > 3) What does the 'RB' mean in 'Mamiya RB67' ? Really Big > 4) Vanfleteren and Huber - which was mono and which was colour? Elvis (Robert Huber) in colour. Presley (Stephan Vanfleteren) in black and white > 5) Who said 'I don't believe in God, but women and trees are proof of his > existence' ? If you don't know the answer to that, why should I tell you? > 6) What year was the courthouse in Mariposa erected and which famous > landscape photographer captured it? 1854. Ansel Adams > 7) What is the Pentax K mount film register distance in millimetres? it is the distance, measured in the metric scale, on Pentax K mount equipment from the film plane to some other part of the picture-taking assemblage. That should be obvious from the question, so why don't you just look it up on Google anyway? > 8) Name a Jewish portrait photographer who snapped Picasso once or twice. Little Bobby Capa (hey, he did portraits too you know!) > 9) Who photographed Sharbat Gula and when? And when again? Steve McCurry, when she was young. When she was old. > 10) If you reduce the lens aperture, what do you get more of? Arguments about whether depth-of-field is the same as depth-of-focus, and whether or not it depends on focal length. > Tie-breaker :-) > What single thing do you consider to be the most important element of > photography? Buying enormous quantities of expensive equipment, preferably in multiple copies, to use only once and then talk about on the internet for years. -- Cheers, Bob
