[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Mark,

It was not a view camera, but a 5x7 folding camera with a bellows and 
extending bed.  I had swapped for it, with no back, just to experiment with 
it.  My darkroom at the time would only accomodate 35mm, and I had no 
interest in getting into LF film sizes.  I had several old lenses from the 
turn of the 20th Century, and the rig gave me a way to experiment with them.

Yes, in effect, I mounted my Leica body behind a crude view camera.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"


>> George,
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>> My first "hack" job was a wooden "focaslide" that I carved and fit to the
>> back of a 5x7 view camera, so that I could use a variety of old lenses in
>> front of my Leica IIIa body.  I recall shooting an eclipse that way, 
>> around
>> 1954.  Many other arrangements have come and gone over the years.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
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> You mounted your Leica body behind your view camera?
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> Mark William Rabiner
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