Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dang, Ted, I figured when you started your were coating your own wet glass plates in the back of a mule drawn wagon;^) ric On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:49 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Oh dear me Lluis, :-) > > A kind of challenge for a long gone times and memories! :-) Not to > mention lacking in knowledge and talent of the first moments of > Happy Snapping! :-) > > I have to confess right up front my earliest rolls of film would > never have matched yours. I shot Stock Car racing on a dirt 1/4 mile > track, scenics and people of no consequence. Then during our moves > from home to home, several over the years, many of the earliest > rolls of film were "unfortunately thrown away" because the rolls > weren't cut, but rolled with an elastic band around the roll to hold > it in place in 1 dozen paper egg carton containers! Man that was > such a long time ago! :-) My God, 60 years ago! :-) I am getting > old! :-(