Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/04

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Subject: [Leica] Pearl Harbour Photographs
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:26:45 -0500
References: <C7EE4192-E67A-4589-BFA3-396FA142925A@paintercreative.co.uk> <000001caa038$aad1a840$0074f8c0$@co.uk> <BC0BAE52-5D03-4558-94A7-CD5CC6AA7799@paintercreative.co.uk> <7E3BD5A162D042CF8E238295443B3F2A@LATITUDE> <993EB70B0B61EB489DD26C8F8C166118032316@MAIL.ukbizmail.com> <993EB70B0B61EB489DD26C8F8C166118032340@MAIL.ukbizmail.com> <73301d6b1002041216y69ec6a49y36dde1dc05c3a5f2@mail.gmail.com>

<http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/pearlharbor.asp>

ric


On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> LUG:
> 
> This is interesting:
> 
> Forwarded from Pro-Imaging:
> 
> "I have put up on the link below, some photographs sent to me by a good
> friend, of the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Although many
> others have been published before, in my view these are very spectacular
> and bring home the true horror of war.
> 
> The photographs were taken by a sailor stationed on the USS Quapaw,
> using an old Kodak Brownie Box Camera.
> 
> What is all the more remarkable is that these images were on a roll of
> film that was found only recently, still inside the camera - 68 years
> after the event!
> 
> I wonder if images on a sensor would last that long!
> 
> <http://www.pro-imaging.org/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,120/catid,10
> 7/>
> 
> Out of courtesy to the photographer who is unknown, I will only leave
> the images up for the weekend.
> 
> Norman Childs "
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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