Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice series of the big ships, particularly those looking down on the town. Thanks for the memories. B. On 6-feb-2006, at 1:23, Douglas Sharp wrote: > There are in fact other places not quite as beautiful as Lancashire > and Yorkshire, but Northumberland gets pretty close. > > I dug this classical lighthouse out from a pile of stuff dating > back to the mid 1960's to the early 70s - not too sure. but I think > it was taken with a Kodak Retina IIc RF with a 35mm Curtar-Xenon, > one of those front element lenses which makes the Retinas so > wonderfully hard to use, focus with the rangefinder, read off the > distance, turn the camera upside down and transfer the distance to > one of the other two distance scales (for 35 and 80mm). > The film is definitely AGFA 200 (RS200?). I was also very surprised > that the colours kept so well, the last 25 years or so it was in a > box in a damp cellar, some Kodak and Fuji slides didn't keep so > well at all. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Ships-and-Boats/IMG003 > > This is St Mary's Lighthouse at Whitley Bay, just up the coast from > Newcastle. Apart from the lighthouse there is an amusement park > here called "Spanish City", which was sung about by Dire Straits > (the Knopfler brothers were born here, and Sting's brother has a > beachside bar here too). > The famous American artist Winslow Homer painted many wonderful > pictures of this stretch of coast (Cullercoats) too. > > I'm still sorting through some other stuff and racking my memory to > find out when, and where they were taken - there may be more to come. > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information