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Subject: [Leica] Testing the patience (and chemical supplies) of Dwayne's...
From: jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:26:20 -0500
References: <20101230214827.GL2183@jbm.org>

Considering that the NY Times article said Dwayne's had already opened their
last cylinder of blue dye, I'd say you're definitely riding the third rail!
Hope you make the cut.

Jim Shulman
Wynnewood, PA

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Moore
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:48 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Testing the patience (and chemical supplies) of Dwayne's...

I'd already sent in a ragtag few hoarded Kodachrome rolls, but
yesterday evening I got the urge to burn a last few frames and see if
they'd be accepted for processing.  And I thought...  what might be
fun, in this modern world of stitching together panoramas, would be
seeing what digital image I could stitch together from multiple
scanned Kodachrome frames.  And to keep it improbable, I figured I'd
use Kodachrome 25.  At night.

So I grabbed up my sturdy Gitzo carbon-fiber tripod, the R8, the 180mm
Apo-Elmarit-R, two freshly conditioned and charged (but aging) battery
packs for the R motor drive... and a very warm jacket and wooly hat.
Off I went to a walkway on the Jersey City side of the Hudson to try
shooting a New York night-time cityscape in many slightly-overlapping
180mm frames.

I have no idea if they were properly exposed (I bracketed each at
16, 8 and 4 seconds at f/4), properly focused by my aging eyes (one
reason I stopped down to f/4), if Dwayne's got the package on time and
will process it... you know, the classic film uncertainties.

What I was reminded of which is certain is what a magnificent and
perfect film-shooting device the R8 with motor drive is.  I miss it,
even while I don't miss most of dealing with film.

I consumed two rolls in this kind-of-absurd project, then walked them
to the nearby FedEx hut, sent them flying off for a promised December
30th AM delivery.  Which is worrying me some, because the most recent
tracking info they're giving me shows the package having arrived at
the Parsons, Kansas FedEx facility in good time, but no actual
delivery confirmation yet.  I'm hoping it happened hours ago but just
hasn't been logged into the system.

Here's a little cenotaph:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/5307130879/in/set-72157621796358420/lightb
ox/

 -Jeff




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