Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great idea Jim. I may have an original black paper photo album. Will try to find it for you. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Halt. Who goes there - friend or faux? > > So, at some art auction in the 2040s, these innovative pieces of time > travelling will be held up as real memorabilia from 1943 by an auctioneer > who has been briefed by a researcher who will probably be invoking the Duck > Rule and taking a flyer by confirming that they are real, and of their > time. > > You should be walking through the door marked "Shame" not only for the > chance of confusing future generations but for damaging the health of your > viewers. Here I am in Ireland battling vertigo and you force us poor > elderly > Luggers to tilt our heads sideways to view them. You should be very ashamed > :-) > > Douglas > Duck Rule: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a > duck, then it probably is a duck. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at > judgecrater.com > > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:12 AM > Subject: [Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess > > > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >