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Subject: [Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess
From: dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 09:17:55 -0500
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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
>>
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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 imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess)