Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 Kenneth Frazier <kennybod at mac.com>wrote: >I am deeply saddened by the loss, in our family, of ALL the photos my >father took, from 1939 to 1945, during his service in the >Navy?.North >Atlantic convoy duty, invasion of North Africa, Sicily, Guadalcanal, >Normandy? That is sad. >He used a Zeiss folder, don't know which model, and the negatives were >pristine, many of them still in the original cellophane envelopes. I'm lucky. Not only do I have my father's negatives and many prints in albums, but his cameras too. The 127 Foth Derby with focal plane shutter is the first camera I remember using; from time to time I still take pictures with his most-used camera, a Voigtlander Bergheil 6x9 with 10.5 cm f/4.5 Heliar, Suydam 120 rollfilm back and Kalart Speed Flash; and until the demise of Kodachrome, I kept the Stereo Realist active. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/