And then she goes and adds to the illusion by being handy with a flyrod too..I don't know if anybody here has fished with the "long rod" or fished at all for that matter, but watching a woman flycasting is just beautifull. There is a fluidity and gracefullness in the rythm of their casting that comes naturally to the fairer species.
Riann, not just when they fish - for real fish (which, unfortunately, has escaped me); have you watched the skilled ones walk and dance when they fish for something else? That's really something else - makes you happy even just watching as the useless bystander.
Regarding the question about lightboxes. I have, and still use, a Kodak Transparency Viewer Model 3 which came with daylight tubes. I once bought a portable model, from some other maker, that looks like a Samsonite briefcase. It was expensive, uses a single bulb or tube, I think I remember (so could never illuminate evenly), and sucks. For this to work with few problems you have to get correct colour temperature for the job: viewing transparencies meant daylight temp. It's also a good way of quick proofing if you buy LF film formats, but beware that you usually end up using only a section of the copy camera's format... sort of defeats the original large format concept for anything other than web or proofing. In fact, 6x6 comes off worse than 6x7 or, obviously, 6x9 which does best. Don't think I'd want to try it for copying 35mm originals, though; asking a lot from camera/box alignment, should you have no dedicated copy stand.
Have fun!
Rob C
