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Subject: [Leica] Older than Jerry Lehrer! Zeiss-Ikon Taxo c1927
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Jul 24 19:50:16 2007
References: <46A67B05.4050807@hemenway.com><002401c7ce44$6cdcb4d0$6601a8c0@asus930> <46A6B545.3020303@hemenway.com>

Jimbo, I'm going to pretend that you didn't say that. Well, I'll forgive you 
if you shoot the 4x5 film in another camera instead.

Anyhoo, keep the great pics coming.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] Older than Jerry Lehrer! Zeiss-Ikon Taxo c1927

Hopper:

It wasn't just the love of old cameras.  I might want to sell it on ebay 
someday and these pics will make it easier.

Jim


G Hopkinson wrote:

> Jim those are just very cool. More power to you for the effort of bringing 
> life to this grand old camera.
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> 
> -----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
> Jim Hemenway
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2007 08:20
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Older than Jerry Lehrer! Zeiss-Ikon Taxo c1927
> 
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I went to the Brimfield Antique Flea Market a little over a week ago... 
> <http://www.hemenway.com/Brimfield-07132007/>
> 
> While there I bought this quarter-glass-plate camera.
> I wanted to take some photos with it but don't have any glass plates, 
> especially in Ektachrome.
> So I cut some pieces of poster board and discovered that 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 
> would fit perfectly, and that the springs behind the film would push it 
> against the film plane just as it would with a glass plate.
> I cut some 4x5 to size and shot a couple of photos at Lanes Cove on 
> Sunday afternoon.
> My lab graciously offered to do a special E-6 run for the odd size.
> 
> Here's the results:
> <http://www.hemenway.com/Zeiss-Ikon-TAXO-07222007/>
> 
> Life can be fun.
> 
> Jim
> 
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