Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vince, The partial eclipse pics were scanned from a shoebox full of prints I had on a closet shelf. So the film must have been print film. The date is approximate. I had just gotten a first edition Rollei 35 and was learning how to guesstimate focus. That probably accounts for the less than razor sharp images. The most interesting thing was that even though eclipses and partial eclipses are visible in New York only about once every 20 years, no one was bothering to look. It takes a lot to grab New Yorker's attention. Larry Z - - - - - - Larry, Is it slide or print film, can you remember that much? The color has held up amazingly well. Vince On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com >wrote: Dave R wrote "Nice photo, Doug. Somewhere I've got a photo that I took (using a Leica M4) about 20 years ago during a partial solar eclipse. I was in Salt Lake City at the time. I didn't photograph the actual eclipse. I just photographed the shadow of a tree during the eclipse. What was strange about the image was that the shadow from each leaf appeared to have a little notch cut out of it, as a result of the eclipse. I once saw a similar photo that Ansel Adams had taken years ago. It wasn't the kind of photo you'd hang on a wall, but it showed the somewhat bizarre terra manifestation of a solar eclipse. If I can ever find the negative I'll scan it. Or if someone else has one, I'd like to see it. Like I said, it's really bizarre." - - - - - - Do you mean pictures like this? http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+Solar+Eclipse.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+eclipse+detail.jpg.html They were taken during a partial solar eclipse visible in New York in 1969. The images were formed by sunlight passing through gaps between the leaves of a tree, each gap acting like a tiny pinhole camera. As you can see the average New Yorker is pretty blase about astronomical happenings. The camera was my ever ready Rollei 35. I don't recall what the film was. Larry Z