Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:20 PM 9/20/01 -0500, Rodgers, David wrote: >There's some satisfation in seeing results. Didn't Timothy O'Sullivan travel >the West and shoot some 450 plates only to discover they were all ruined >when he processed them after the journey? A bad batch of albumen? And I >though I faced obstacles. :-) George Leigh Mallory took several hundred plates of the environs of Mount Everest in the '21 Reconnaissance. When he and his partner rejoined the main party and the plates were developed, it turned out that they had been putting them into the camera backwards ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html