Thanx Dave and Craig, I also appreciate the two of you taking the time to get back to me. I had decided early on that, if even one person took the time to let me know they thought a set of pictures would be worthwhile, I would take the extra time and trouble to provide them. I don't mean this to sound arrogant or haughty, but I have dealt with tons of picture-taking and all things photographic in my former life as a senior photo-engineer at Polaroid and DuPont, and, to put it bluntly, the last thing I want to do now is take a mess of what we called 'happy snaps' (which were an integral part of our image evaluation routine), as nothing shows up a film or camera defect better than a good picture image.
And anyone involved in that sort of work also knows that generating those pictures never stops, as they are the backbone of all film and camera development programs. BTW, as a Field Test or Beta Site Test engineer for much of my career, I also had my fill of technical writing. Evidently some things in life just are never meant to change...as here I am once again, in my twilight years, talkin' shop and takin' pictures! I just pray that all this effort someday will be worthwhile to one of my toy train compadres who finds himself face-to-face with one of these rotary dump beauties that needs some serious help.
