Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes - it's amazing what crude tools were used back then :) I recently got out my Petri, uncoupled RF folding 645 camera. Out of the 15 exposures most were ok with exposure , 14 were in some state of unfocused but the one taken of my dog in the middle of running around was PERFECT. Not bad I'd say. ernie At 09:03 AM 3/10/03 -0800, you wrote: >Karen Nakamura wrote: > > For a picture of the Bolsey, see here: > > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/BolseyC22.html > >Ernie, Karen: > >You've just thrown me into the throes of nostalgia. My mother's camera >was a Bolsey B2, which is essentially the camera shown, but without the >TLR viewfinder grafted on top: > >http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/images/56489.jpg > >Mom still has the camera, although she no longer uses it, and I don't >know if it still works. I have perfectly-preserved old Kodachromes of my >folks taken with that Bolsey before I was born. All of our family >pictures came from that camera, until I took up photography about 1969 and >discovered Leicas. So I could say that the old Bolsey was what sparked >my interest in photography. > >The Bolsey has a strictly split-image rangefinder rather than the >coincidence type we're used to. My mom would always ask one of us to >stick a finger in the air so she could focus. > >(NO, not THAT finger. . .) ;-) > >--Peter Klein >Seattle, WA > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html