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Subject: [Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess
From: boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 00:55:28 -0800
References: <a024bb4038bcb9dabd61f1dbe8b28899@mail.gmail.com> <ABB81AC5-DED3-4E26-902F-780A7EB3F416@frozenlight.eu>

Fantastic stuff, Jim!  How did you get the black-lipstick effect in the
bottom left photo of the first set?  Looks like ortho film!

--Peter

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> I enjoyed!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
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> YNWA
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> > On 03 Mar 2015, at 05:12, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> 
> > wrote:
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> > 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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> > Wynnewood, PA
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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)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess)