Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? - Unprocessed Film
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:30:52 -0600
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On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:

>  your post reminded me about my most interesting LF experience. In 1972 I 
> was running a darkroom in the student union, and the administrator of the 
> facility found out we could get access to government surplus photo 
> equipment, so for cheap we obtained a Fairchild F56 aerial camera with a 
> 20" lens that took either 9" roll film or 5x7 sheets in a 12 sheet 
> magazine similar to a Grafmatic.  I bought a 25 sheet box of 5x7 Plus-X 
> and shot them all wherever I could find vistas (the lens was of course 
> fixed at infinity).  It was a workout.  No tripod socket and about 30 
> pounds of LONG camera.  But I only got around to processing four 
> negatives, so the rest of the exposed film has been in the freezer ever 
> since.
> 
> Maybe when I retire I'll get them developed.  ;~)

a m a z i n g - on so many different levels.
"photographers" really are a strange sub culture. ;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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