Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Timeless image. Great shot. I started devouring photo magazines in 1951, and remember the write-ups on the Medalist. Nice, if a bit on the heavy side. At work, I sometimes used a Kodak Signet, with an Ektar lens, for taking photos of thread tufts to locate poor flow quality areas inside our large wind tunnels. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:10 PM Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Wayback Machine, Mike and Quark > >From the Wayback Machine. This photo of my son crewing our sail boat was > taken in 1970 with a Kodak Medalist camera. The Kodak Medalist, sporting > the > best lens that Kodak ever made, was a three pound WW2 era combat camera, > euphemistically called a miniature, that took 6x9 cm. pictures. Its major > fault was that it used long discontinued 620 film. The picture was taken > in > the late afternoon in fading sunlight on Kodacolor print film. My son has > since grown, served as an officer in the Navy, married and has two > children > of his own. I still have the boat and the camera. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Quark+and+Mike+1.jpg.html > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >