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Re: [APML] Tech Pan - a memorial (edited and some new verses)
Wow!
Brian
> Astrophotography Pie
> (huge apologies to Don McLean)
>
>
> A long long time ago ......
> I can still remember
> How some images used to make me smile,
> And I knew that if I had my chance
> that I could make some photons dance
> and maybe, I'd be happy for a while
>
> But February made me shiver
> frosted optics, don't deliver
> loose screws on the guidescope;
> guiding based only on hope
>
> I can't remember if I cried
> 'cause my light pollution spectrum's wide
> But something touched me deep inside
> the day that Tech Pan Died
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> Did you read from books of Lore
> published oh so long ago
> Wallis, Provin told us so.
> Can hypering save your mortal soul
> and is your reciprocity real low ?
>
> Well I know that you're in love with pain
> 'cause I saw you setting up in the rain
> weather forcast ? is for Clearing
> all of us are cheering.
>
> I was a lonely, middle aged Astro Geek
> with an APO and mount too weak
> yet another film we're want to seek
> the day, that Tech Pan died
>
> I started singing .....
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> Now for ten years we've been on our own
> Developing, then scanning all alone.
> But that's not how it used to be.
> When the Magazine arrived, in back was lurking,
> the work of Germano, Hallas, and Perkins
> with a proud voice that came from you and me
>
> Oh and while our eyes were looking down,
> manually guiding without a frown
> SBIG's guy's were scheming
> of Autoguiders - they were dreaming
> Now our guiders are quietly ticking,
> while our pockets they are picking,
> romance is gone, and wounds we're licking
> the day, that Tech Pan died.
>
> we were singing ......
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> Mosquitos, Chiggars in a summer swelter
> best get out of the sun ! bring a little shelter
> Night time temps of eighty-eight!
> Racoon, Possums - an occasional Loon
> Pitch black nights, calm - and of course no Moon
> Six, one hour exposures! It's dawn, way too soon
>
> Now the night time air is sweet perfume
> Camera shutters play a lovely tune
> Film advance levers dance
> Thank God we even got the chance!
> 'cause when digital tried to take the field
> like die-hard Bums we refused to yield
> Do you recall what was revealed
> the day that Tech Pan died
>
> We still are singing ......
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> High Vacuum Pump and a Hypering Tank
> Forming Gas, some heat, a densitometers rank
> D19, distilled water and Fixer you know
> get the timing just right.. add some Photoflow
> made for images you were proud to show
> before our Tech Pan died
>
> Now No Ones Singing .....
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> Oh, and there we were all in one place,
> A generation lost in space
> with no time left to start again.
> So come on: Kodak be nimble, please be quick!
> manufacture Tech Pan... don't make us sick!
> 'cause digital is the devils only friend.
>
> Oh and as I watched him on the stage
> Film boxes clenched in fists of rage
> No angel born in hell
> Could break that satan's spell
> Exposure time so long, we couldn't wait
> Laptop screens! what a dreadful state
> I saw satan typing "Track and Accumulate"
> the day, that Tech Pan died
>
> He was singing ......
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> I met a film reportedly good in blue
> tried it, hoped for some happy news
> but it just failed. I threw it away.
> I then went down to the Photo Store
> where I'd smelled emulsion years before
> But the man there said the new films wouldn't play
>
> And at TSP: the disk drives screamed,
> monitors cried, while us film guy's dreamed,
> but from Kodak: no word was spoken
> Cable releases all were broken
> And the three men I admire most
> Newton, Hallas, Middleton don't boast
> they all bought cameras from the coast
> the day, that Tech Pan died
>
> They were singing ......
>
> So why, why did film imaging die ?
> Priced some CCD equipment but the cost was too high
> All them digital boy's are drinking whiskey and rye
> singin' this'll be the day film will die.
> this'll be the day film will die.
>
> Tech Pan Sileo In Pacis - 2005
>
> --
>
> William R. Mattil :
> http://www.celestial-images.com
>
>
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