Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have anidea.
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:13:15 -0500
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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! :-(


Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have anidea.)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an idea.)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an idea.)
Message from lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol) ([Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an idea.)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have anidea.)