Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This past June I attended the annual WWII Weekend at the Reading, PA Air Museum?and event that attracts more than 50,000 tourists, re-enactors, historians and various hangers-on. Every year I try to bring some authentic piece of photo equipment along?one year a prewar movie camera (I should double 8mm movies that time), another a Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta A folding camera, and this past year an appropriate Leica outfit. The Leica was a 1938 iiib, with Summar 5cm lens, WINTU right-angle finder, SCNOO rapidwinder and a half-dozen FILCA metal cassettes loaded with Kodak 5222, which I subsequently developed in D-76 at 1:1. My friend Sam (aka Crazy Fedya) just made some prints from the best images, trimmed them with a deckle-edge print trimmer (years ago I found about a half-dozen of these trimmers at a camera show), and added a period-appropriate date stamp. Next step is pasting them onto a black construction-paper album page, and annotating with white ink! Enjoy! http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/wwii+snapshots/ Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA