Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In color the empire state building looks a lot different. It has red trim. And various changing colorbreed lights at the top. But in black and white it looks the same. As well as the buildings next to it it seems at least on this side. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Philip Leeson <pjleeson at mchsi.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:10:16 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Empire State building 46 years later redo. > > So, then, not much has changed in NYC in 46 years, then?. > > But perhaps your hand got steadier and it's not just the camera upgrade. > > Phil > > > On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/MWRGallery/Empire+State+Buildingx >> .jpg.html >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/42gdtz5 >> >> A week before we left NY when I was 9 in 1960 I was working on my first >> roll of film having just got my first camera and my folks let me out of >> the >> car as we drove down 5th ave so I could get as they promised a shot of the >> Empire State Building. Which I'd have to have living in Chicago, the >> buildings were all so short then. They had to tell me when we were >> "downtown". >> I was a displaced New Yorker for forty six years till I got back in 2006 >> and >> was staying in motels looking for apartments but walked down 5th ave with >> my >> inkjet in hand and camera in the other with 24mm lens and got this. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/onthisday/061016_163755xx.jpg.htm >> l >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/3aw2cj9 >> >> I can see now I was a full 2 feet or 3 off and will have to go back and >> redo >> it. But I go darned close. >> >> I think my camera I used then a D200 takes sharper more clear images than >> my first camera; A Brownie Starlet. A few things have changed in my >> workflo. I no longer have to practically ask permission every time I click >> the shutter and hand the film to my Mom to bring it to the drugstore. >> >> >> Manufactured : 1957-62 Lens : Dakon Shutter : Rotary Original List Price >> : >> $6 Film Size : 127 Negative Size : 4x4 cm >> >> http://www.geh.org/fm/brownie/htmlsrc/mE13000055_ful.html#topofimage >> http://www.vieilalbum.com/BrownieStarletFR.htm >> >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information