Re: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the 6-element lens for 3.5Fs)

["Dan Kalish" <kaliushkin >]

As rollfim cameras (let alone view cameras) involve really getting into the
picture when compared with digital cameras, point & shoot cameras, and
automatic anything cameras, slide rules, when compared with pocket
calculators, involve really getting into the calculations and intimately
understanding them.

I've been sampling various slide rule sites on the Internet.  They were
invented and developed in Europe.  Keuffel and Esser, based in Hoboken, New
Jersey, brought them to American shores in the 30s.  K&E was the largest
producer.  They had numerous models with numerous variations.  My slide was
made between 1938 and 1944.  Pocket calculators, starting with the HP-35 in
1972, spelled death to slide rules.  They are still made, BTW, but not by
K&E.

Now to give my slide its first cleaning now that I know how.

Dan

>
>   I learned to use a slide rule in junior high. I still have
> my original somwhere, a Bamboo Manheim pattern made by
> Fredrick Post company. I have a log-log K&E here which I
> stll use occasionally, its faster than a calculator for some
> things.
>   One thing about learning to use a slide rule is that one
> must learn to do rough calculations in one's head to get the
> right order of magnitude, etc. That has proven very useful
> elsewhere in avoiding blunders. Calculators are, of course,
> much easier and will do much more than a slide rule but the
> discipline that goes with the slide rule is missing.
> - ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk  
>
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> Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:54:50 -0700
> From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk  >
> Subject: Re: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the 6-element lens for
3.5Fs)
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> - ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Guido Cova" <guido.cova  
> To: <rollei  
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:33 PM
> Subject: R: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the 6-element
> lens for 3.5Fs)
>
>
> > Me too! in Milano, Italy, in the 60's.
> > The inkwells were of 2 different types: glass and
> bakelite. The bakelite one
> > was built in such a way that it can be turned upside-down
> without spilling
> > ink.
> > Guido
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Slobodan Dimitrov <sld  >
> > To: <rollei  
> > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 2:37 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the
> 6-element lens for 3.5Fs)
> >
> >
> > > I think this is even more obsolete. I had to learn
> penmanship with pen
> > > and ink. In elementary school, I had an inkwell in the
> top right hand
> > > (that's right, the state didn't recognize left handed
> writing) corner of
> > > my school desk. We had to wear smocks over our school
> clothes to keep
> > > them from being soiled with ink.
> > > Oh, and yeah, this was in France, the land of Liberty,
> Fraternity,
> > > Equality, etc.
> > > Slobodan Dimitrov
> > >
> > >
>    For a while I went to a private grammar school where we
> were taught Palmer Method long hand. I think this was
> intended to leave you able to write a nice sort of copper
> plate hand. We did hours of practice drawing coils going in
> both directions, interlocked figure eight's, etc, etc. The
> idea was to use the muscles of the upper arm instead of the
> hand for writing. I changed schools and the Palmer Method
> went away.
>    The result is that I can't write more than two sentences
> of decipherable longhand. If I must write by hand I wind up
> printing (which I do very well). I much prefer typing.
>   I've tried to look up Palmer Method on the web but found
> nothing refering to the handwriting system.
>   I would love to be able to write in a beautiful and
> readable hand but have given up on ever getting my muscles
> trained for it.
> - ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk  
>

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