This is our first meating on the pages of "Usefilm", Mr. Mudge, but hopefully not our last. I read your entire bio and looked through your entire portfoio. You are, of course, invited to do the same with my bio and my portfolio. The first thing that came to my mind while reading your bio was that despite coming from entirely different backgrouds, as you will see in my bio, our history as photographers, or rather as users of cameras, as I never took photos for a living, is very similar. I went through almost all the cameras you mentioned, including the canon D10 which gave me much trouble and the canon eos 1, with a 35-350 mm lens which I carried with me over the mountains of Indonesia, cursing the moment I had chosen it because it was so heavy. Please remember that I was over 65 years old at that time. I finally settled for the Fuji Finepix S7000 which, except not having no ttl light measuring gives me great satisfaction. I saw two BIPs in your portfolio and there was no photo I would not like to comment on, but I finally settled on the present one, because it looked the most natural unposed for. Thank you for your in depth comment on my "Waiting for the next train". I accept your critique with understanding. Unfortunately this was a one time opportunity, but your critique will stay with me for future similar situations. Best regards, Dr. Rafael (Rafi for future communications) Springmann
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