Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/02

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Subject: [Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess
From: leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:19:04 -0800
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Fantastic, Jim!

On 3/2/2015 8:12 PM, Jim Shulman 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!
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> Enjoy!
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/wwii+snapshots/
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> Jim Shulman
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In reply to: Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess)