Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:05 PM 1/12/06 -0500, Rei Shinozuka wrote: >nothing new! > >recall, the climax of Jimmy Stewart's "Northside 777" (1948) involved >something like a 1000x enlargement off a tiny section of a 5x7 B&W print >to read off the date on a newspaper held by a newsboy far in the >background and along the edge of the image. while the 100x, and 140x >enlargements are shown as fuzzy, the final 500-1000x enlargement clearly >reveals the date. > >as an interesting side note, in the film, the enlargements are faxed >from chicago to springfield illinios. Hysteron proteron. The FAX machine was thought up in 1902 though working models weren't around until the 1930's. I am not certain about the US or UK use of them, but the German ABWEHR (Military Intelligence) made extensive use of facsimle machines from 1937 until the end of the War. There is a famous scene in BULLIT (1967) where a FAX is sent in -- in those days, the machines used a technology quite akin to today's drum scanners. (I saw the downtown San Francisco part of the chase scene being filmed, incidentally, and quite by accident: a bunch of us, all High School classmates, happened to be in the City at the time and got to witness the first hill-climb.) As to EFKE film, I go back to the KB14 days -- I was a good customer in those days and even got a FAX from the company thanking me for the recognition by the US government of Croatian independence. I have some of the old EFKE developers compelte with their Croatian-only instructions. I have always developed EFKE film in Rodinal, D-76, or one of the Crawley formulations, and I've never had a problem with it. It is great film. ADOX film was the miracle emulsion of the early 1950's and was much touted at that time as the perfect film for Leica cameras, so it always gives me pleasure to be reinventing the past and doing that which was chic a half-century back. Once I get moved and get my darkroom back up and running, I'll have to buy some more and try it out with some more modern developers. Great film. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505