Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] Hopelessly behind
From: stiles <stiles@s-way.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:38:48 -0400

Tina Manley wrote: LUGnuts -
I was feeling overwhelmed this morning so I decided to waste a couple 
of hours counting all of the rolls of film that I have developed but
not edited or filed.  The grand total is 2158 rolls.
	This reminded me of Gary Winograd.  John Szarkowski, in _Wingrad,
Figments from the Real World_, writes: "At the time of his death in 1984
more than 2,500 rolls of exposed film remained undeveloped, which seemed
appalling, but the real situation was much worse. An additional 6,500
rolls had been developed but not proofed.  Contact sheets (first proofs)
had been made from some 3,000 additional rolls...one might reasonably
ask whether a backlog of this magnitude should be considered a technical
problem or a psychological one...
	A few years ago I attended a talk by Paul Caponigro, one of the master
printers of my generation.  Several were surprised when he related that
he hadn't taken a photograph in five years. His response was "have you
printed all your negatives that you want to print?"
	Paul showed some marvelous color slides from Ireland and Italy taken
with "an old Leica." I was quite impressed by the sharpness and
clarity.  After the talk, I asked him how often he used a tripod. "More
than half the time," he replied.
	Phil Stiles NH USA
Week 14: http://www.worldpath.net/~pjs/13.jpg (this isn't a Leica shot,
my M4-P rewind knob is being replaced in Germany. With a CLA thrown in,
the estimate was $400.)