Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The only thing I love more than brass is waterhouse stops. This the first I've seen of them like this. !!! I'm reading a book I got for the holiday on photo history. Its a coffee table book. Quite large and lavishly printed. But very good writing. And I don't mean the typeface. But that too. The Origins of American Photography >From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Keith F. Davis; With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall Kansas City Rocks! I'm learning all kinds of stuff. They've learned a lot in the past few decades. The early photo histories are less then great anymore. Obsolete! -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 00:50:39 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Last Photograph Made in 2010 (Jim N) > > Mark, > > It was a Ross London No.6 Symmetrical 8-inch FL with rotary Waterhouse > stops > from f/16 to f/64. According to the SN, it was manufactured around 1890, > though they were probably made earlier than that. Ross started his company > in 1830. > > Here is a photo of the lens and flange: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Ross+Lens+2.jpg.html > > 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, January 04, 2011 12:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Last Photograph Made in 2010 (Jim N) > > >> Well they look pretty normal from all I can tell. >> And from all I could tell it was a turn of the century thing in a brass >> mount. What was it? >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 00:28:48 -0600 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Last Photograph Made in 2010 (Jim N) >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> Here are a couple, but it has been too cold to get out much, even here in >>> Tennessee. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mocking+Bird.jpg.html >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Flags+BW.jpg.html >>> >>> 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, January 04, 2011 12:13 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Last Photograph Made in 2010 (Jim N) >>> >>> >>>> Any shots you got with that rig?!?!? >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------- >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> Photography >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>>> mark at rabinergroup.com >>>> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:39:29 -0600 >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Last Photograph Made in 2010 (Jim N) >>>>> >>>>> Here is my last image from 2010. More on this project when the weather >>>>> clears >>>>> and I can get outside. >>>>> >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Final+Assembly.jpg.html >>>>> >>>>> To keep this OT, the photo was made using a Leica Elmarit-R 60mm Macro. >>>>> >>>>> Jim Nichols >>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information