Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]holy shit you are one crazy genius!!! beautiful ric > On Mar 2, 2015, at 11:12 PM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> > wrote: > > This past June I attended the annual WWII Weekend at the Reading, PA Air > Museum?and event that attracts more than 50,000 tourists, re-enactors, > historians and various hangers-on. Every year I try to bring some > authentic piece of photo equipment along?one year a prewar movie camera (I > should double 8mm movies that time), another a Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta A > folding camera, and this past year an appropriate Leica outfit. The Leica > was a 1938 iiib, with Summar 5cm lens, WINTU right-angle finder, SCNOO > rapidwinder and a half-dozen FILCA metal cassettes loaded with Kodak 5222, > which I subsequently developed in D-76 at 1:1. My friend Sam (aka Crazy > Fedya) just made some prints from the best images, trimmed them with a > deckle-edge print trimmer (years ago I found about a half-dozen of these > trimmers at a camera show), and added a period-appropriate date stamp. > Next step is pasting them onto a black construction-paper album page, and > annotating with white ink! > > > > Enjoy! > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/wwii+snapshots/ > > > > > > Jim Shulman > > Wynnewood, PA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information