Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is a priceless family treasure of course. A rather neat capsule of 1963 too. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 18 September 2010 06:27, Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote: > The Links Always Help! > > OK, > > It's 1963 (I'm 13 years old) in Scottsdale AZ (before there were people > there), > My Dad brings home a really cheap (probably the cheapest) small plastic > yellow box > camera which I think had a flash cube one it. "Go shoot some pictures and > then > bring me the camera" (or something along that line). > > I think you got 12 shots (127) I blew 11 somehow and only one was printed. > For some reason my Mother had those lousy negs and one print in her > personal > stuff which I found after she died in 1997. Maybe because the shot was of > my > younger sister. I recall breaking the camera soon after getting it and > didn't > pick up another one until high school which I think was a six 16 Kodak > folder, > and took some pretty nice shots that are long gone (I'm nowhere near as > organized as Jim Nichols) His lovely shot inspired this post, and I'm > positive > the excitement is killing you! :-)) > > Full Frame: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/Les-1963.jpg.html > > Crop: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/Les2-1963.jpg.html > > Montie > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >