Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Processing in hotel rooms
From: Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:12:52 -0400

on 9/19/01 6:57 PM, Sal DiMarco,Jr. at sdmp007@pressroom.com wrote:

> Fellow Lug Nuts,
> What is the big deal about processing on the road?
> When I was with the Philadelphia Evening & Sunday Bulletin, we had a
> complete portable darkroom w/ a home made film dryer and enlarger (Durst-
> very small) all in a large Halliburton case.
> A second case held a transmitter which you hooked up to a telephone.
> Today, with mini-labs, digital cameras, lap-tops, etc. all the fun is
> gone from portable jobs.
> Happy Snaps,
> Sal DiMarco, Jr.
> Philadelphia, PA
> 
> PS-- It's an old story but when Winston Churchill died, LIFE magazine
> refitted a jet airliner in a flying darkroom and editing lounge. If memory
> serves me 
No, I  don't think it is,  as I remember it, it  was the wedding of HRH Liz
the current, not the death of exPM Winston.   Or was the wedding flight for
tv film processing??? awe these senior moments.

Motel room processing was half the fun of covering news in the 60'-80's.
Making prints and connections to the network after a full day of shooting
was always accompanied by good cold beer and company of other photogs.


Happy snaps,
Steven Alexander




 

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