Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Always a positive outcome.
I damaged a photographic lens filter last night while trying to remove a stubborn mark. It's no use putting an orange coloured filter that 's got a blemish or mark on it in front of a high quality lens, as the image will suffer....no matter how good the lens is, the result will be determined by the weakest element. So I need a new orange glass filter of the highest quality in 39mm diameter. Hm. My search for a replacement this morning has brought surprising results.
I phoned my favourite Leica stockist who is a mile away down Bond Street. There didn't seem much point in walking there and back if he didn't have one in stock, particularly since I don't have a great deal of spare time, nice as the walk may have been. He didn't have one and said the particular B&W range is becoming harder to get, particularly with the growth of digital equipment.
So I phoned another Leica stockist and was told the same thing; they are hard to get and I'll be lucky to find one. Oh dear! I need one for this weekend when I visit Dorset!
I tried another stockist and they too didn't have this make. There are other makes available, but I particularly want B&W as they supply Leica themselves and are of the same high quality. At this stage I am beginning to think that things are transpiring against me. But I quickly changed my thinking and thought....maybe this is 'for me'. Maybe something will come up....
I did a search on Google and 'Hey Presto', there's a stockist in another town and sure enough on his website it says they carry stocks of B&W filters. I quickly phone them up and they are most helpful. Yes, they have B&W filters, they have orange in stock and yes, they also have it in 39mm. Great. How much? The answer is half the price I was quoted by a London retailer. FotoSENSE in Bolton, England have recently become major stockists of B&W filters and they will soon be increasing their range of cameras to include traditional photographic equipment. The manager told me they believe that the digital market is now reaching saturation point and there are more opportunities for high quality traditional 'film' based photographic equipment.
They have promissed to post it today by First Class and I will have it for the weekend. So the outcome of this little saga is,....what seemed like a minor disaster had a positive outcome. I got the filter, I didn't need to walk the couple of miles and I paid half the price quoted by London retailers. The time I saved allowed me to also write two letters (by hand with fountain pen and wet ink) and write this blog. Thank you FotoSENSE, I shall be back!
It just shows, you never know what 'blessings' or benefits there are until a problem occurs. We need life's problems to benfit from their solution!
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