Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, I have finished watching your DVD and it was really well put together and enjoyable. I think that the story does you and Irene proud. My family was sitting in and I heard several times 'Oh I know THAT picture! Did Mr Grant take that?" Well yes, Mr Grant did take that picture and that one and that one and about literally 3 million all together I have just found out! That is about 83,333 rolls of film and a tetch over 6,403 US gallons of D76 or XTOL plus a couple of hogsheads of Lagavulin and probably three wagons full of sushi. I am in awe! More power to you Ted! Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- Subject: [Leica] National Archives of Canada image collection. :-) Whew! Hi Crew, The other day I posted an image number without any thought of what the numbers implied in the sense of rolls exposed to obtain 280,000 saved images. That is the number of my images in the National Archives of Canada photographic collection. But it only represents about 10% of exposed film if you consider any shoot it's only about 10% of the images are cream keepers. That doesn't mean the others are bad, it just means they didn't make the cream cut. Quite often dumped to get them out of the way. Or filed for a second look later. You might contemplate the number of rolls exposed to reach the number of images in the collection. Like WOW! Beyond me! My Leica images in the file is the largest collection of photography by a single photographer in the country! Even though they represent my assignments over the years it's still basically 10% of exposed film. What does the above say about the number of exposed rolls to reach that collection point? None of the above includes my medical documentary images which probably runs in the tens of thousands. I'm glad I don't have to continue developing film to attain a similar number of photos over the next bunch of years! ;-) Today it's Digital world all the way!:-) However, used as manual focus one frame at a time like any other M cameras. And with a new medical student project to begin as soon as all this film screening and personal appearance stuff is out of the way, I can hardly wait to seriously getting back to the grind!" ;-) Trust me this appearance stuff isn't the least bit glamorous! :-( Quite frankly it's damn intimidating with a sea of faces inches away from your own after each screening. ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information