Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1951 a very good year I was born and Ted sold his first picture. But why do you scan so low rez? We want to click on these pix and have them get bigger so we can see them!?!?!?! Nice shot what little I can see of it!!!! -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:49:24 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Holga D > > Mark, > > A lot of us started out with a Brownie. Here is an early Brownie shot that > I made in 1951. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dayton+Art+Institute+1951.jpg.html > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:04 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Holga D > > >> Holgas are held in the highest regard by all one and all but this arty >> person likes to hold up a single element Brownie as the holy super low >> tech >> grail in his workflo when it flos in that general direction. >> What I like about Brownies is they were just trying to be cheap and >> accessible to the multitudes. They were not trying to be funky. I'm sorry >> but I it kid of seems to me that the guys who made to Holga kind of went >> out >> of there way to have those edge soft artifacts in it. That kind of rubs me >> the wrong way just a bit. So I never actually got one. I just used all >> kinds >> of Brownies. Many I got for five bucks. Like the ones I first used like >> my >> first can second cameras. >> They're gorgeous. Fun. And you just click the shutter its amazing you ever >> get a picture. But you usually do. >> http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/brownieCam/ >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/New+York+Cityx.jpg.html >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/3x73zdv >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Home+Plate+Jul+64+Oxford2.jpg.htm >> l >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/2763k9f >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information