Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] One more thing re: Santa Fe
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Mon Apr 30 20:24:01 2007
References: <008401c78b7b$eeaf4290$bb350b44@GATEWAY><D4647FA8AC3C02AB23A6F39F@Rutabook.local><001501c78b8e$c425d8a0$6501a8c0@asus930> <9b678e0704301915t495984ddv499b7b6d31057086@mail.gmail.com>

Don I don't know if you have seen the DVD "Trinity and Beyond", utterly 
fascinating. There is a smaller feature too, on the film
makers.

Cheers
Hoppy

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Subject: Re: [Leica] One more thing re: Santa Fe

Interesting side note, a collector here in Atlanta has at least two movie
camera's used at Alamagordo.  Serial numbers match cameras sold to the
proper agency and they are somewhat radioactive.

On 4/30/07, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> I'm sure that was a relief to the citizens, then!
>
> F1/1000000000th and be there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:
> lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:51
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] One more thing re: Santa Fe
>
>
> > used at Los Alamos). The maximum aperture? f/0.90! For those
> > low-light, hard to photograph atomic explosions.
>
> I lived in Los Alamos when I was a kid. The explosions were at White
> Sands, near Alamogordo, not in town.
>
>
>
-- 
Don
don.dory@gmail.com




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