[Leica] Empire State building 46 years later redo.

[pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)]

So, then, not much has changed in NYC in 46 years, then?.

But perhaps your hand got steadier and it's not just the camera upgrade.

Phil


On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/MWRGallery/Empire+State+Buildingx
> .jpg.html
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/42gdtz5
> 
> A week before we left NY when I was 9 in 1960 I  was working on my first
> roll of film having just got my first camera and my folks let me out of the
> car as we drove down 5th ave so I could get as they promised a shot of the
> Empire State Building.  Which I'd have to have living in Chicago, the
> buildings were all so short then. They had to tell me when we were
> "downtown".
> I was a displaced New Yorker for forty six years till I got back in 2006 
> and
> was staying in motels looking for apartments but walked down 5th ave with 
> my
> inkjet in hand and camera in the other with 24mm lens and got this.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/onthisday/061016_163755xx.jpg.htm
> l
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/3aw2cj9
> 
> I can see now I was a full 2 feet or 3 off and will have to go back and 
> redo
> it. But I go darned close.
> 
> I think my  camera I used then a D200 takes sharper more clear images than
> my first camera;  A  Brownie Starlet.  A few things have changed in my
> workflo. I no longer have to practically ask permission every time I click
> the shutter and hand the film to my Mom to bring it to the drugstore.
> 
> 
> Manufactured : 1957-62 Lens : Dakon Shutter : Rotary  Original List Price :
> $6 Film Size : 127 Negative Size : 4x4 cm
> 
> http://www.geh.org/fm/brownie/htmlsrc/mE13000055_ful.html#topofimage
> http://www.vieilalbum.com/BrownieStarletFR.htm
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
> 
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