My Current Collection of Photography Equipment

A while back, I met my friend Daniel (vs. my brother Daniel) and we went to a camera show. I was both exciting and a little bit sad. I remember when these things were huge back in the 80's and 90's. There was one particular one at the old Big Town Mall in Mesquite. My buddy Pat and I made a special geek trip into Dallas, all the way from Lubbock to go to that and the (then new) Incredible Universe that had just opened out in the east side of town. It was in a big hall with huge number of vendors. I bought a medium sized Tamrac bag used for about $50 which was a lot of money to me back in those days. Now, the camera shows are small affairs that fit in hall the size of a high school gym. At any rate, it was fun and I got to handle some old gear.

A few years ago, I got involved in teaching a little "club" style photography class for the middle school that I taught at during that time. You know; 12 and 13 year-olds love photography! Being the old-school curmudgeon that I am, I decided that I needed honest-to-gosh manual 35mm cameras for them to learn the craft on. I had one kid who's dad had worked for Kodak, and he brought his Nikon FE, the other kids just stared when I said words like, "film", "35mm", "f-stop" and "shutter speed". So, I started looking around for "old iron". In my world; "old iron" means, Japanese 35mm cameras from the 60's and 70's. 

I was able to round up a some cameras, after a few weeks of scouring Craigslist. There was a pair of Mirandas, one Sensorex, and a Sensorex II. A faculty member donated her husband's old Pentax P3, and I bought a Nikon FM as well. From somewhere, a Pentax SP500 materialized, don't even remember how. There was even a Konica T, that got thrown into the Nikon deal, but it didn't work consistently. Anyway, I bought some film, removed the batteries and taught them all how the "sunny 16" rule worked.

They had a great time with the old gear and took a lot of pictures. This is how I accidentally kicked off my current bout of collecting. Although I sold off the majority of that equipment when I moved on to teaching at the High School, I did keep a couple of things. Oddly, the Konica T, and a few hand-held meters that I made them use. Actually, I didn't think that I'd be collecting anything, but not long ago, my brother sent me a Topcon Uni, along with a random Schneider lens that he picked up somewhere.

 

It was obvious to me that it was about the same vintage as my Dad's old Voigtlander, so a short Google search later, it was revealed that it was a Kodak Retina reflex mount lens.

 

.....And $15 later, I got something to mount it on! A Kodak Retina Reflex IV from the mid-60's. No, it's not completely working, but it sure does look good sitting on the shelf with that Schneider mounted on it! 

There's also a non-working Nikon EM as well, courtesy of my Australian friend Kym. So, that's it. I know it's not terribly extensive or impressive, but it's a nice start. Maybe I'll be able to add that Russian Fotosniper that I've always wanted!

Return of the Workstation

Sitting on the desk next to me is an honest-to-gosh A31 of 2002. This model of ThinkPad was one of the most famous and often considered to be the pinnacle of IBM's mobile workstation development. In many ways, it wouldn't be equaled until the short-lived W7xx from a few years ago and now out of production. This model would culminate two years later in 2004 with the A31p of the NASA Space Shuttle and International Space Station fame. They were pretty much as high of performance machine that a buyer could get while still using actual mobile computing parts. Of course, there were a number of machines at that time sold through secondary market channels which used desktop parts, but if you wanted an actual machine which could travel regularly, this was it! 

To start with, these machines were true "3 spindle" computers, meaning that it had the capacity to hold a hard disk drive, an optical drive, as well as a floppy. This was a form-factor that was becoming increasing rare by the first part of the new millennium, but not only did the A31 have it, the two non-HDD drive bays were swappable modular bays, capable of taking a bewildering number of devices which ranged from floppy (1.44Mb FDD, 120Mb Superdisk), optical (CD, CDRW, DVD, DVD/CDRW, DVD+RW), as well as a number of specialty items designed for the series. These included, hard drive adapter, battery, Palm Pilot sync cradle, and slide-out numeric keypad! On top of that, some models included a special USB port on top of the screen to take a webcam. Screen resolutions ran from the typical 1024 x 768 on either 14.1" or 15.1" panels, all the way up to an eye-straining 1600 x 1200.....which by the way is the same resolution as the 20" panel of my ThinkVision L200p desktop display! CPUs were mobile P4s ranging from 1.7 to 2.0Ghz, although they'll take up to the blistering (literally) 2.6Ghz chip. Although, the factory specs only listed the max RAM as 1Gb, they would take the later 1Gb modules to run a full 2Gb. The hard disk drive size was only limited to whatever you can find in size of parallel drive to purchase. For the 2002-04 era, these are almost ridiculous specs.....and that was only on the inside....

As with all professional level ThinkPads since their inception, there were expansion docks as well as simple port replicators available. The most sophisticated was the 2631, that not only included yet another, swappable modular bay, BUT the ability to add 2 PCI cards, as well as more PCMCIA slots! Configuration was limited pretty much only by the imagination of the user.
 

For NASA and the International Space Station which adopted and used them for many years, this included a wide variety of applications including docking, control of external apparatus, as well as more mundane task such as recording experimental data. 

Which gets me back to my very own little mission control here in North Texas. This particular machine had been one of my brother's old computers and came to replace my wife's aging A30 (same chassis, but PIII gen). She used it for a couple of years and it went on to become my son's to replace his first computer, an A21p. Eventually, it went on to Amarillo to a relative, where it has spent the last two years, until finally returning home this summer due to a failed CCFL. Most people might think that it's a little crazy to take a 10 year old computer and spend $30 on it to replace a screen to get it back running again, but as you can see by it's history; the A31 is kind of a special machine!

Old Cameras

 While reading another blog yesterday, I realized that I never explained how I got involved in the hobbies that I love. So, today I'm going to start with the first of a series on the "back-story". We'll start with photography because it was my first love. Way back at some point in the mid-sixties, my father taught me how to use his, then new, Voigtlander Bessamatic Deluxe.

This was quite a camera for that time; completely mechanical, not requiring a battery even for the meter which was selenium. It goes without saying that it was completely manual, but did have a "match/needle" metering arrangement. I cut my photographic teeth on that camera, up through high school. I became the school photographer my Freshman year and held that position until I graduated. Although, by the late 70's, this camera was antiquated, it did have some advantages over the more modern ones like a leaf shutter that allowed me to flash sync all the way up to 1/500. That was pretty hot stuff back in those days of the typical 1/60 sync speeds! But of course, there's a down side, and in this case of the leaf-shuttered-old-camera-pre-Internet days, it was a lack of other additional lenses.

So I went the opposite direction. After a lot of scrimping and saving, plus the participation of my brother, I bought probably THE most advanced camera of that era: the Canon A-1. It was the second (after the Minolta XD-11) camera to offer all the exposure control that is now considered the norm on SLR/DSLRs, otherwise known as PSAM (Programmed, Shutter Priority, Apeture Priority and Manual). At around the same time, I was able to convince the school to buy a Canon AE-1 to replace their old Mamiya 1000DTL. So the final two years of school photography was completed with a very up-to-date Canon rig. 

Oddly enough though, what I learned in those years of school photography was that after learning the basics of light and camera control....I rarely used automation! Most of my shooting was done in manual! In the summer before my senior year of high school, I was (as usual) haunting one of the local camera shops when I spotted way back on a dusty shelf, an old 60's rangefinder: a Canon 7s. It came with a 50mm/f1.2 and later that summer I was able to get the 35mm/f3.5 and 100mm/f4 as well. It might be the most unobtrusive camera that I've ever owned. It taught me a lot about photography and I've been trying to replicate that ever since. Between the A-1, AE-1 and 7s, I was able to delve into a professional photography (at a low level albiet), including a stint of working as a black and white darkroom tech for a studio. However, a year later, I was getting ready to go to college and came to the conclusion that if I didn't give up my cameras, it'd probably flunk out of college in short order! Thus came my photographic hiatus.

 After the better part of a decade, and several academic as well as professional twists and turns, the late 80's saw me as a history teacher/coach earning a decent living with very few responsibilities....relatively speaking. This set the stage for the Pentax Era. As luck, or fate would have it, I came across and small-out-of-the-way camera shop specializing in used equipment. After hanging around for several weeks and getting familiar with what they had, I decided that I wanted a manual "system" camera with access to easy to find, but excellent optics. Canon who didn't make what I was looking for, and Nikon who did (FM/FM2), was too expensive were eliminated. It pretty much came down to the Olympus OM-1n or the Pentax MX. Although both had very similar sizes and systems, the Olympus had a weird control layout (to me), so it was the Pentax MX, with a 50mm/f1.4 in pristine condition for $140. The next several years saw me add:

• ME Super
• Switch to black versions of the cameras.
• Winders for both cameras; always loved them and the Pentaxes were so small that they actually improved the handling.
• 12 lenses total ranging from 24mm to 200mm, a variety of zooms and ultimately a 500mm reflex lens.
• I also added a number of Sunpak flashes that would include a couple of handle-mounted "potato-mashers" 

Some time in the 80's I just about became more of a collector than a photographer. It started with a little Olympus 35RC that I found in a pawn shop for $12.

 This was followed by an Olympus OM-1 that I stumbled across at a good price.

 Within a short time, I traded this find to a woman that I was dating at the time who needed something more modern than her Exakta VX. This camera came complete with 2 lens other than the normal, as well as a waist-level finder all in a fitted leather case.

Around the same time, I came across a Voigtlander Vito B locally and was given a Rollei 35 by my brother which had a stripped nylon gear.

The downside of collecting is that you sometimes give up things that in retrospect would have been better kept. In order to finance the purchase of the Pentax system and it's array of lenses, I sold the Canon 7S which is now worth quite a lot of money, I also ended up selling the Voigtlander gear as well a few years later. Although not worth nearly what the Canon rangefinder has, it was interesting stuff and of some sentimental value as well since I learn photography on it. You live and learn I suppose......

By now it was the mid-to-late 90's and I had changed professions to IT. Through my work, I came to be in charge of all things digital there, including their array of digital cameras. Although, at this time, higher-end digital photography was in the nose-bleed realm and not all that good, I became familiar with Kodak's line of DC cameras which we were using for work. In late 2000, they brought out the DC 4800 which as a 3.1 megapixel camera which had a number of refinements that enticed regular photographers and not just "snap-shooters". So I bought an "over-stocked" one from our IT distributor for a very good price to augment, my real (film SLR) cameras. As it turned out, after a couple of years, I realized that the only pictures I was doing anything with were the digital ones! Around that time, we were moving from Chicago to Texas and it was a time for self-evaluating and deep thought. I came to the conclusion that I was really tired of carrying around a big camera bag with two cameras, 6-8 lenses and a flash in it. I was also rarely if ever taking pictures on film and when I did, I would lose the film or have it sit in the camera till I couldn't remember what was on it. Time for a change. 

So I sold everything I owned film camera-wise and what I didn't sell, I gave to my friend Pat as part of his collection. I wanted to simplify, and the then new, Nikon CoolPix 8800 seemed like a great candidate. I had previously had some experience with the CoolPix line from work when I bought the CP 4500 for our facilities folks to document work to replace their old CP 950 and also a CP 5700 for or new Media Center. The 8800 not only had a phenominal 8 megapixels, but a 10x (35-350mm, 35mm eq.) but built in VR as well. The concept was that it would do everything, all in one body and I wouldn't be saddled with carrying around a bunch of lenses, flashes, etc. any more. Plus, we had just had our first child and it would be perfect for the inevitable kid pictures.

 

Unfortunately, the photographer in me reared it's ugly head and I round the CoolPix to be VERY limiting. It was very slow (catching children at play is not), and I learned a lot about sensor size in relation to image quality and that number of pixels had little to do with good images. Unfortunately, all I learned was that I could have bought a DSLR like the D70 for the same amount I spent on the 8800 and had a better camera (although fewer pixels on a bigger sensor) for about the same amount of money! Boy, did I feel stupid. So, after some soul-searching and Internet research, I bit the bullet again and sold the 8800. Then took what I made in the deal, plus what I had saved and bought a used D70 along with the 18-200mm VR superzoom. 

This of course brings me up to present times and is a jumping off point to the other blog: The Frugal Propellerhead that documents how I've moved on through that progression of equipment. 

Goodwill/Garage Sales & Old Audio

Not too long ago I found the Audiokarma forums and have spent a lot of time over there reading about what others have been doing with audio. As it turns out, it seems to be populated by a bunch of "cranks" like me who not only like audio, but love the gear that makes it come alive. On top of that, there seems to be a bunch of folks who enjoy the game of finding older gear at out-of-the-way places like garage sales and thrift stores like Goodwill.

After this inspiration, and made a couple of stops which netted me some pretty amazing finds. First, I had a honey-do which involved having to go to Goodwill to drop of a bunch of kids clothing that had been out-grown, so of course, I took the opportunity to look around. At the one where I did the drop-off, I didn't find anything noteworthy. But on the way home, I decided to swing by another one that was pretty much "on the way" where I found.....a very nice Onkyo cassette deck of fairly recent manufacture in full working condition for $8!

Then on Saturday, while working through my list of honey-dos (again), I decided to stop in at a garage sales that I saw, largely because it was in an old section of town....and was rewarded with the discovery of a pair of old Cerwin-Vega HED U-6 "bookshelf" speakers. I paid $25 for them after a short negotiation, mostly due to the fact that they looked to be in fair condition with surrounds that are still in good shape.

I'll have to say that I'm not a big C-V fan, or really much of a fan of the old-guard American speaker manufacturers, such as Altec-Lansing, Klipsch, Cerwin-Vega, etc, since my personal opinion of them is that they then to be very much like late 60's/early 70's American muscle cars....long on muscle/short on finesse. But at least, these were acoustic suspension bookshelf, vs. the big floor-standers with the 15" woofers and ports.

Personally, I tend to lean toward the "New England" sound that's more geared for accuracy and detail or even a "British" sound, but hey, I'm not going to stare a gift-horse in the mouth. Given their size, price and in all probability ability to handle abuse (if they hold up to the C-V reputation), they'll probably become the speakers to a first system for Josh. He seems to have a bent for music and at age 8, its probably time for him to move up from his Lego shelf-radio/cd player! I did come across another garage sale last week that had a fairly recent Yamaha receiver, but I think, I'm going to hold out for something a little more vintage for his first system.

Great Audio on the Trailing Edge

Here we go. I'm not even certain where I want to go with this, but its a subject that I love and am passionate about as much or more than anything else. Sure, I use the home theater function of my system more and absolutely use the "system" in the bedroom more than the "big rig" in the living room. But when its time to get serious, there's nothing quite like firing up a set of "full-range" speakers with a really fast sub that's capable of getting LOW.

So, sources or more accurately, source of choice? Why; vinyl of course.....do you even need to ask,, but not for the reasons that you might think? Not necessarily because I set out to be on of those dyed-in-the-wool, nothing but vinyl "blue-bloods", but mostly because I figured out that I enjoy IT more. The "IT"? ......that would be the elusive combination of the reproduction, artistry and action that gives the listener the satisfaction that the person is seeking. "Action" you say? What the.......well......for me at least, a series of often repetitive actions that psychologically prepares us for something, anything. It could be the warm-up, routine that a ballplayer or musician goes through before performance, or a writer, getting her/his cup of tea and cleaning off the desk before the actual writing begins. Most of us NEED it, just to clear the head and get ready to do the thing is.....that needs doing......yeah, that's it's!

For, me, its the whole turning on the receiver, and letting it warm up the speakers, by playing a radio station or something on the iPod while I'm getting ready for the main event. Getting something hot to drink in the cold months, or cold to drink in the hot months, getting out the correct remote(s), then on to the final stages......going through my record collection and finding the albums I want to listen to. Finally, the act of cleaning the record. I don't think that most people understand how important this series of actions are to the enjoyment of the music. It doesn't just "get you in the mood", but more importantly, it puts you in a mindset to EXPECT to enjoy it.

WHAT THE......as my esteemed brother-in-law would say! So, I'll answer that question with a question: why do we laugh at a comedian telling a joke and often groan at a co-worker telling the same joke at the coffee pot? Of course, the comedian has impeccable timing since he/she is a professional, but that's actually not the main reason. Psychological studies have found that the main reason is that when we turn on the TV or better yet go to see a comedian, we go with the expectation AND the anticipation that we will laugh. We've discussed this for some time, we get all ready to go, we sit in the audience with others expecting to be bowled over with mirth, then.....we are!

Its the same thing with music......when we take some time to prep ourselves vs. just throwing a CD into the tray or worse yet, pulling up a "playlist" on the iPod, we are primed to be astounded, by; the wonderful "fluidity" that is analog, the immense "sound-stage" of the well mic'd recording, the amazing "tonal range" of the performer at the height of their artistic prowess. You name it, we'll come up with a reason. Of course, it is self-evident that we must have well done system to get you to that point, but my contention is that once you get above a certain stage of investment the law of diminishing returns hits like a ton of bricks though! However, I will say that (as with the music itself), the acquisition of good gear in and of itself certainly can (and does) contribute to the "placebo effect"! Therefore the same can be said of going out and using the acquisition of the "software" can contribute greatly to this effect. Therefore, those hours of searching out that, "just right" jewel of a record at the store and then getting it home, is by extension, part of the process.

Try it! Get out there and find a nicely functioning turntable at Goodwill, connect it to that unused input marked "phono", visit your local version of half-priced books and find a few recordings that you love (for me, that'd be Steely Dan or maybe Dire Straits), then have at it! Trust me, it works.

Some things are just Weird....

Let me start by saying that I've always had a little bit of an obsession (not that kind you pervert!), with oddities. All manner of oddities really; such as British cars, Italian appliances,German stereo equipment, but the ones that I really love to play around with are computer oddities. Old ThinkPads, magneto optical drives; need I say more?

Back in the old days...say 1970's and early '80's, most anything in the computing world was odd. You'll find this is pretty much true of any "new" product category. Standardization and commoditization (is there such a word), hasn't taken hold and you get all manner of wild ideas. Back in the good old days of "personal computing", when people routinely constructed them out of kits and guys started companies in their garages, there were lots of really interesting products. Don't believe me? Just spend a little time at this website:

http://oldcomputers.net/

See what I mean! Lots of weird stuff. But its one particular type of computer that's always had a strange hold on me: it's the "Portable Computer". What's so weird about that you say? You don't think I used those quotes accidentally did you? If you'll Google that, you'll come to a definition that doesn't mean the common everyday "laptop" (which are really "notebook" computers anyway), but a classification that really means a full desktop, complete with monitor crammed into a case that looks suspiciously your mom's sewing machine.
The Compaq Portable introduced in Nov. of 1982. Yeah, yeah, I know there were other portables, such as the Osborne1 (first truly portable computer), and even the IBM 5110 & 5120, but the Compaq was the first to be fully compatible with the IBM PC. Oddly enough, I have a connection with this little (I use that term loosely since it weighed 28lbs) machine. My first job out of college was for a cotton company could be considered bleeding edge in those day. We not only has a mini computer (complete with disk-packs), but a PC AT, PC, and a Compaq Portable! Although it was never used anywhere but in the office, it was the coolest thing ever (at that point anyway) with it's fold down keyboard and onboard monochrome green CRT.
Just like this one, but ours had a hard drive in place of one of those floppies. Maybe its because I was never allowed to work on that one, I don't know. Anyway, I've been a little CooCoo over these quasi-desktops ever since.

Fast forward another 15 years or so, and I'm actually teaching myself to work on computers. Two areas that I don't know much about is servers and laptops. Of course one of the truisms of the computing field is that anything involving servers, is that they and anything having to do with them is expensive. So, I find myself gathering parts to get an old IBM PS/2 MCA (Microchannel Architecture) server up and running so I can get some practice on an actual server OS. I can't afford Windows NT4, or God Forbid Netware, so I get an old copy of Windows NT 3.51 and one of those giant Sybex manuals. Why the heck IBM PS/2!?! If you read my other blog you already know why: it's well built (duh...IBM), and it's cheap, because PS/2 has failed miserably in the marketplace and they are trying to get out from under that albatross as quickly as possible! After a year or 2 of plugging away at this, miracle of miracles I manage to get a job in IT!

And you know what? When you are around computers 24/7, you learn where to find them cheap (or free) and you end up with computer stuff literally up to your eyeballs. At this point, my obsession rears it's ugly head and I find the Holy Grail of PS/2-dom: the IBM PS/2 P75 "Mobile Server"!!!
OK, this image is really of the P70 (which was a 386 and I had one of those too), but the P75 was physically identical with the exception of the backside that was significantly expanded. What you can't see in this image is the really cool/weird red screen, because it was....wait for it.....PLASMA! Mine had a 400Mb SCSI HDD in it and a whopping 32Mb of RAM! Let me tell you that RAM for these boogers aren't easy to find or cheap when you do manage to find it. Anyway, after several years of toting this 30lb monster around in all the various moves during my Higher Ed days, I gave in and sold both the P75 and partially working P70. But I never forgot it.

Years later, the dormant obsession (along with a few other things) were stirred up from watching a relatively cheesy computer movie called Hackers where a bunch of "elite" high school kids get their jollies...you guessed it...hacking into computers. Anyway, the protagonist (played by Johnny Lee Miller who was briefly married to Angelina Jolie) used one of those portable computers for his exploits. I know; sick isn't it, that the lasting thing I get out of this movie was a computer and not the pre-augmented Angelina Jolie (although I must say that see looks great in this flick).

OK, finally to the nitty-gritty. These types of computers are usually used by professional networking specialists or the military out in the field where conditions are rough, but they need full-on desktop power. Therefore, they are rare as the proverbial hen's teeth, and tend to be pricey when you find them. Don't believe me? Just do a search for Dolch on eBay and see what you find. But never the less, I'm on the trail of one now. There seems to be a barebones, case and screen only on eBay that's affordable. If it remains affordable, I'm going to try and snag it and put new guts in it.
It looks something like an older version of this. I know.....weird! Stay tuned!

The Trailing Edge

I’m going to give this a shot to see if there are any other old curmudgeons out there who think the same way I do and might find it interesting. What's "interesting"…..that might be the question that you are asking? Well, the concept is; as much as I love technology, I often feel like it’s so driven by profit making and “innovation” that very good, if not better performing technologies are push out of the marketplace by things that are newer and/or better marketed items. So I’m going to try and do this blog about those things. The “trailing edge”, quite literally are things are not only, NOT leading/bleeding edge, but are about to or maybe even having fallen off of the “wing” all together! Of course, I’ll be drawing from my own interest and experiences, but I’m really going to need help in a participatory way from others of you who have experience in area that I’m not well versed in. An example would be my friend Eric who was a big Amiga believer/user and knows far more about it than my miniscule puddle of knowledge in that department. So, yes, I would love to have “guest” bloggers on here as well as my misc. ramblings!

So, my first and maybe most emotionally attached topic? The vinyl record of course! Yes; I’m the proud owner of 2 turntables, as well as an accumulation of some parts (read- non-working turntables). And yes, I have actually bought some vinyl records in the last 6 months since we have that favorite of old geeks like me; Half Price Books. I could happily go down there and spend all or most of an entire day in their flagship store on Northwest Highway, off of 75 (Dallas). They not only have old stuff (like records), but books about the old stuff as well! My ideal day would be to spend the morning of a Saturday at the computer flea market downtown, eat lunch at some random diner or dive, then the afternoon at Half Price Books! That is of course, after securing royal blessing from “the boss” and I don’t mean Springsteen!

The fact of the matter is that I think “Vinyl” is a victim of a culture change and not supplanted by a superior medium. It represents a conscious decision to “listen to music” (meaning, by definition, you are serious) in order to devote the time to that activity. Let me break down the steps:

1. Turn on your rig so that it has time to “warm up” while you look for the album(s) that you intend on listening to.

2. Peruse you collection of albums until you find just the right one(s) for that time. Oh, did I forget that you should have already opened your bottle of wine so that it can breathe while this is going on?

3. Put the first album on the turntable, and go through your cleaning ritual. This is of course an important part of the process since it all helps you get into “the mood”, builds the anticipation, foreplay…whatever you want to call it. Let the platter spin and cue up the track, but don’t drop that needle so that the belt gets nice and warmed up on the idler/spindle, while you go and pour the wine, and cut the cheese (maybe I should have gone with “slice” the cheese).

4. Come back with your wine/beer/Coke, whatever, drop (not really “drop” but you know what I mean), and enjoy the bliss for 20 minutes or so….until it’s time to flip sides.

5. Start the process all over again until the stress in your life has been removed by the magic.

Today’s digital medium has no ability to do these things for you. You spin the dial of your iPod, select the track and punch the button, or more likely, you find a previously created “playlist” and click on it, then walk around the house doing various chores until you run out of time. There’s no comittment to devote the time and energy to relaxation and entertainment. Its like, when you go see a comedian; why do you laugh at the same jokes that you see on forwarded emails which are merely amusing? Because you are invested and EXPECT to laugh! Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPod and its ability to hold my entire library of music in the box the size of a shaver, but its not only the impersonal delivery of the music, but the lack of investment in the process that leave it uninvolving. Yes, yes, I fully understand that it’s really not that good in terms of delivery and fidelity, but I really think it’s all the other “stuff” around it that makes it seem cold.