Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 4:38 PM -0400 7/24/00, Disfromage@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 7/24/00 3:29:21 PM, Jim Brick wrote: > ><<Aaarg... anybody remember T stop plates? >>> > >Jim, > >I do! I have a beautiful brass barrel large format lens with them >(Waterhouse stops?) If it's focal length wasn't about twice the length of my >bellows I could be Sally Mann. > >Richard Wasserman Waterhouse stops predated any continuously variable bladed system. This was from the age where 'automation' consisted of yelling to the guy at the front of the camera: "Hey, drop in the f/32 stop and check for air leaks in the shutter!" while you were busy at the back (in the dark) coating the plate. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com