Saturday Night Slide Show

Dear Sugar,

We've been married for 28 years now and my husband is still fixated with photography no matter how much I have tried to wean him off that silliness, he likes nature photography and can be gone for hours at a time!  What can I do to stop this madness!!

Frustrated in Banff

Dear FIB

Therapy can sometimes help with this dire situation, but it is tough to get a person to admit that they have a problem ... however, that is the first step in any successful recovery program.  Sending me this email is a good first step in understanding your problem, maybe your husband can help get you into in the right therapy classes there in Banff now.

Stay film my friend!

Sugar 

 

 

G’day Sugar,

I have a choice between two lenses, a 50mm f1.4 or a 35mm f2 … which would be the correct purchase?

Undecided in Sydney

Dear UIS

Yes, that is indeed an unfortunate choice of words you've used, the correct English would be a 50mm f1.4 AND a 35mm f2 ... and that is exactly what Visa cards and lines of credit are designed for, shifting the responsibility of your current needs over to your declining years, at which time 'or' would be more the proper English ... but until that time AND is the correct attitude when it comes to buying camera equipment mate!

Stay film my friend!

Sugar

 

 

Hello Sugar:

I started using digital on a casual basis five years ago, nothing serious, just once in awhile we would go out, and now we have grown really close over the past three.  We see everything together, and I have fallen in love with digital.

A few months ago, my camera sent me an error message saying it needed to tell me a “secret.”  It went on to say that its’ sensor was dirty and that its' CPU was overloaded, that it needed to shut down on me!  Needless to say, that bombshell floored me.

I’m beside myself now, I’m in love with digital but I know if I forgive it this time it will only betray me again in the future.  What should I do!

Broken Hearted in New York

Dear BHINY,

What an unusual thing to have happen with digital, and after such a short period of time of only five years!  Wow, who would have seen that one coming!  I can truly see why you would be floored at such news!

Stay film my friend!

Sugar

 

Dear Sugar ...

My boyfriend wants a transmission for his truck for his birthday, but I need a another lens for my medium format camera.  If I bought him a tie instead would that be selfish?

Torn in Alberta

Dear  TIA

Excellent, make sure the tie is in style (if there is a chance of being seen with him), sometimes the ones at Value Village can be a bit dated looking.

Stay film my friend!

Sugar

 

 

 

Dear Sugar,

I have never written to you before, but I really need your advice.  I have suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me.

The usual signs; phone rings but if I answer, the caller hangs up.  My wife has been going out with ‘the girls’ a lot recently although when I ask their names she always says, just some friends from work, you don’t know them.

I try to stay awake and I try to watch for her when she comes home, but I usually fall asleep.

Anyway, I have never broached the subject with my wife. I think deep down I just did not want to know the truth, but last night she went out again and I decided to finally check on her around midnight, I hid in the garage behind my golf clubs so I could get a good view of the whole street when she arrived home from a night out with “the girls.”  When she got out of the car she was buttoning up her blouse, which was open, and she took her panties out of her purse and slipped them on.

It was at that precise moment, crouching behind my mobile backdrop, then I noticed a hairline crease right down the middle of the screen!

Is this something I can fix myself or should I take it to Beau Photo for repairs?

Signed…

Concerned Photographer with a Job on Saturday

Dear CPWAJOS,

You're a photographer AND you have a job on Saturday!  Do you have hair as well?  If so, drop me a line once you get your screen fixed!

Stay film my friend!

Sugar