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QUESTION: Who would you have the contest open to? Modelers with Instamatic cameras and flashcubes? How about Polaroid cameras? Now they would produce some memorable photos that a magazine would want to publi***o show of the best of our hobby! ANSWER: Are they (we) not model railroader deserving of respect too? Just because we choose to follow a path where we would rather own another loco rather than buy a Nikon, we are now second class modelers whos attempts to capture our modeling skills with inferior equipment amuse you? You know, other magazines like Hot Rod accept pictures even if taken with shoddy Polaroids and if they think they have merit they send a staff photographer to go shoot some magazine quality photos to print. But not MR, they expect the reader (and purchaser who keep them in business) to do it. In essence this contest causes hurt feeling from modeler who don't have the desire or skill to be a professional ( or amateur have you ) photographer. We then feel like we are being penalized for not fitting a mold that MR has determined we need fit. They then do it again because they tell me in articles that since I don't run my railroad like the real one I'm not an operator. They try and jam opertions down my throat. I'm not in a club and that's wrong too. I don't use floquil paint, how bad am I? I'm sick of being told by a company that I pay money to that I'm not their idea of a model railroader because i don't own a Nikon or a mega computer to create supernatural pixelized image of a digital world. Then you tell me how fair the contest is in one paragraph and then make fun of me in another because I don't own an SLR. Then I get this $%#&^ renewal notice with yet another price increase!!! So you good old boys have your little photo contest and to answer the original question once again, no I think I will save my time and money and not enter the contest. Maybe if enough of us don't enter the price of MR will drop due to a decrease in their trash bill. As to this renewal notice, well, I just don't know. FRED
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