[MJB DIGITAL]

When I get some photosurveillence/private investigation type of work integrated into my business, and my card reads, "Private Photosurveillence", I will shoot all of the redheads in



forget it, ive already wasted too much energy

[nakey]

Shut the "F" up..You could have contacted me privately...Now the Duck is out of the Bag.

Not Kool....

Ben

so that's what the pros are shooting with,. a duck camera....

[Pentaxke]

Maybe one of them will. Who knows? The mods on this forum are (fill in the word of choice).

absent?

I don't know, I went tru this whole thread, and while it is posted in 'the news and rumors' section, I still have to find the first news or the first rumor...

Och well, if you all keep posting some 30 pages more, maybe there will be sth new to discover...

And I concur with Thibs: even if what she said isn't true, it isn't any reason to bash her so bad...

[ftpaddict]

so that's what the pros are shooting with,. a duck camera....

Pro photogs are ducks, didn't you know that??

Proof! WhattheDuck.net

[Blue]

Pro photogs are ducks, didn't you know that??

Proof! WhattheDuck.net

Wow. 64 tera-pixels.

[kenyee]

After a quarter-century of living amongst them, may I gently suggest that the honor/honesty/etc stereotypes are so far overblown that you may safely quit believing in them?

Guess I'm lucky the ones I know in Toronto (working for Honda) are old-style. They actually believe that part of their code of ethics is not to impose on others, etc.

[kenyee]

It's Ned, we know it's you, buddy.

Wait a sec...if you take WendyB...and take off the W..and right shift the characters by 2 which is the number of extraneous characters at the end...it spells NED! It must be Ned Bunnell....the last name of B was the obvious hint! Eureka...

signed,

Spartacus...the rest of you are just poseurs...
(yeah, I know..sophmoric humor....<shrug>)

[code4code5]

You all might be Spartacus, but I'm Gunga Din.

[heatherslightbox]

"Like sands through the hourglass...these are the days of our lives."

That's all I have to say...
Heather

[Blue]

You all might be Spartacus, but I'm Gunga Din.

How long before Jesus arrives?

[Mike Cash]

Guess I'm lucky the ones I know in Toronto (working for Honda) are old-style. They actually believe that part of their code of ethics is not to impose on others, etc.

You're getting a very small sliver of the society, and one which is far from being representative. You're dealing with ex-pat businessmen from a major corporation. That means: good upbringing, good-to-elite educational background, etc. You don't get to see the run-of-the-mill folks.

I remember a young Japanese man from such a background, just finishing an engineering degree, who told me he had always wanted to drive trucks and had determined to do so for six months after college, since otherwise he would be locked in his professional career and never have the chance.

I saw him after he had been driving for a few weeks and asked his impressions. He said...with some degree of shock and disbelief..."I never knew there were people like this in Japan!"

Mind you, he was a Japanese male from the same background as the guys you meet working for Honda in Toronto. Grew up his entire life here.....and had never had to rub elbows with the blue-collar hoi polloi in all that time. And their ways, manners, ethics, mores, etc. were different enough to be shocking to him.

Like I said, forget the glowing stereotypes. Even the ones that are meant to reflect positive traits are just as inaccurate as the ones that are negative.

[Mallee Boy]

Just thought I would try and summarise this bit of nonsense for those of us with a sense of humour. No offense is implied or intended to anyone, but in the true spirit of any half respectable soap opera..................

It appears that Wendy B claims to have set up an elaborate ploy to get Ben into her "clutches" (be careful with that one), which Ben missed because he got the address wrong and went to a brothel instead. As it turns out, Holga was doing a product test at the brothel so naturally, in the interest of art:ugh:, Ben stuck around, (just to offer advice on lighting, angles, composition etc) thus missing the action further up the road with Wendy B, who got a bit upset at this.

Now, what we have learnt since is that it really wasn't Wendy B at all who set up the initial meeting. It was a 'friend'... who was determined to do the dirty on her best friend and goes by many identities, namely Spartacus and Jesus, although other disguises have been Ned, Ben, Neb, Den, The Phantom, Bendy & Robin (although we all saw through that one!), Gunga Din, Superman and Wonder Woman. However, the most difficult personna to recognise is when she adopts the disguise of the Invisible man....very hard to see.

Lost ya yet ? ..... no? well your doing well, as I've lost myself!...which I think was back around the brothel somewhere so I just better pop back there and see if I can find myself.

But how to disguise myself to get in past all these Holga security people...dressed like The Phantom, Superman ...oh sorry, didn't see you..(just bumped into the Invisible Man) ...

Yeah yeah, I'm going! I'm going..... but I bet your smiling.

PS: hey its Sunday....more coffee.

[kenyee]

Mind you, he was a Japanese male from the same background as the guys you meet working for Honda in Toronto. Grew up his entire life here.....and had never had to rub elbows with the blue-collar hoi polloi in all that time. And their ways, manners, ethics, mores, etc. were different enough to be shocking to him.

Very true...perfect description of the guys I met from Honda...engineering degrees, raised to do the right thing, etc. Wrong of me to generalize from that one bit of exposure. In any culture, you have the darker side (and WendyB :-) and in war, there is much darkness in the human race, no matter what army they're in...

[benjikan]

Just thought I would try and summarise this bit of nonsense for those of us with a sense of humour. No offense is implied or intended to anyone, but in the true spirit of any half respectable soap opera..................

It appears that Wendy B claims to have set up an elaborate ploy to get Ben into her "clutches" (be careful with that one), which Ben missed because he got the address wrong and went to a brothel instead. As it turns out, Holga was doing a product test at the brothel so naturally, in the interest of art:ugh:, Ben stuck around, (just to offer advice on lighting, angles, composition etc) thus missing the action further up the road with Wendy B, who got a bit upset at this.

Now, what we have learnt since is that it really wasn't Wendy B at all who set up the initial meeting. It was a 'friend'... who was determined to do the dirty on her best friend and goes by many identities, namely Spartacus and Jesus, although other disguises have been Ned, Ben, Neb, Den, The Phantom, Bendy & Robin (although we all saw through that one!), Gunga Din, Superman and Wonder Woman. However, the most difficult personna to recognise is when she adopts the disguise of the Invisible man....very hard to see.

Lost ya yet ? ..... no? well your doing well, as I've lost myself!...which I think was back around the brothel somewhere so I just better pop back there and see if I can find myself.

But how to disguise myself to get in past all these Holga security people...dressed like The Phantom, Superman ...oh sorry, didn't see you..(just bumped into the Invisible Man) ...

Yeah yeah, I'm going! I'm going..... but I bet your smiling.

PS: hey its Sunday....more coffee.

[Albert Siegel]

Old-style Japanese honor is also B.S. They gunned down over 100,000 civilians (mostly women and children) when the lost the battle at Manila wen MacArthur returned. In addition to that, they trashed historic buildings etc. out of spite.

Edit: But we are off topic.

No country is free of guilt. Everyone did something less than honorable back then. Just look at the fire bombings on civilian Japanese targets by the Americans as one example. In fact, America killed more innocent Japanese civilians than Japan did form all countries they invaded during the war. These are noncombatant deaths I speak of.

Every country is guilty of some evil act in modern history. It's just that history is written by the winners and vilifying the losers is how they attempt to justify their wrongs.

The Japanese were far from the worst in modern history. There is no need to bring up such a topic on a camera forum. Let's please just keep it to camera talk.