Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i shot for years with a 101 that i found laying on the side of the highway just north of wichita falls, tx. my oldest daughter eventually killed it with a dose of orange crush. good camera. leo On 10/31/07, Gary Todoroff <datamaster@northcoastphotos.com> wrote: > > Great example of how black and white captures the soul, while color > captures the clothes. I'm quoting someone there but don't remember who. > > The SRT-101 was my daily sidekick on my first job here in Eureka for > KIEM-TV. I would load the bulk Ektachrome into cassettes, shoot the > color slides for commercials, develop them with Nikkor tanks and E-6 > chemistry, iron them into the cardboard slide mounts, and then later > in the day, insert them into the TV color film chain and pulse the > slides at the on-air control board. Did I mention Eureka was (and Is) > considered a very small market television area? I experienced the > golden era of 1950's television firsthand by working at Channel 3 > here in the 70's! > > I think the Minolta lens was the 50 (or 55?) f1.4, and it was sharp > enough stopped down a bit. Your portraits do seem soft - did you > check the negs with a loupe to see if the softness was in original or > in the scan? For the subject matter, the b&w contrast on my monitor > looks perfect. > > Gary Todoroff > > > >With all of the talk about Kurds and Turks, I was inspired to go > >back through my files and find my photos of Kurdish men in the > >bazaar in Kermanashah, Iran, in 1974. These were made with the only > >camera I had at the time - a Minolta SRT 101 - > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >