dave6134@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > At 12:16 AM 6/11/2005,, K wrote: > > >>To be perfectly frank, the course slid rapidly downhill after the Borg took >>over - where once I'd find students examining roll after roll of perfectly >>exposed, perfectly focussed E6 film on the light table to find the one >>great image, > > Sounds like a dream class come true... well equipped, well motivated, > well trained and obviously taught by a master! > >>I was instead seeing rows of students sitting in front of >>variably hued mac screens staring at thumbnails first to find the correctly >>exposed shots, then enlarging the remainder to find the few that were also >>in focus, and then fiddling for hours with the one or two remnants of their >>shoot that could be salvaged. > > How lamentable... patently shoddy equipment and distressing training > by an obviously disinterested and inept instructor! Were the poor > students able to salvage any of their tuition fee? Shouldn't that be "uninterested"? -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>