Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] looking for an image
From: amagayneroshak at gmail.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:06:21 -0600

 On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>wrote:

>I'm helping produce a photo book, and we are interested in ending the
>pictures section with a stock-like photograph of an empty 35mm film
>spool. The idea is to show that there are no more pictures; a picture of
>a spool with no more film came to mind. By "spool" I don't mean
>something made by Kindermann or Nikor, but by Kodak or Ilford.

>If I had a time machine I would go back to 1975, buy a 20-exposure roll
>of Tri-X, open it and sacrifice the film, and photograph the empty can
>and the empty spool on a simple background.

>I've thrown away literally thousands of these spools and cans over the
>decades, and now I don't have any to photograph. Do you have a
>photograph that you would let me use in this book or a spool you could
>send to be photographed?

>Thanks for looking, as they say.

>Brian
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Brian, if no one comes up with anything, I could take a photo to your
specs.  I've got
a collection of probably 100+ film cassettes, cans and boxes going back to
the early 1950's.
Some of the metal cans have color-coded tops and bottoms, and I have plain
silver ones
and all sorts of plastic ones.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>

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