Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, then, not much has changed in NYC in 46 years, then?. But perhaps your hand got steadier and it's not just the camera upgrade. Phil On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/MWRGallery/Empire+State+Buildingx > .jpg.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/42gdtz5 > > A week before we left NY when I was 9 in 1960 I was working on my first > roll of film having just got my first camera and my folks let me out of the > car as we drove down 5th ave so I could get as they promised a shot of the > Empire State Building. Which I'd have to have living in Chicago, the > buildings were all so short then. They had to tell me when we were > "downtown". > I was a displaced New Yorker for forty six years till I got back in 2006 > and > was staying in motels looking for apartments but walked down 5th ave with > my > inkjet in hand and camera in the other with 24mm lens and got this. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/onthisday/061016_163755xx.jpg.htm > l > Or > http://tinyurl.com/3aw2cj9 > > I can see now I was a full 2 feet or 3 off and will have to go back and > redo > it. But I go darned close. > > I think my camera I used then a D200 takes sharper more clear images than > my first camera; A Brownie Starlet. A few things have changed in my > workflo. I no longer have to practically ask permission every time I click > the shutter and hand the film to my Mom to bring it to the drugstore. > > > Manufactured : 1957-62 Lens : Dakon Shutter : Rotary Original List Price : > $6 Film Size : 127 Negative Size : 4x4 cm > > http://www.geh.org/fm/brownie/htmlsrc/mE13000055_ful.html#topofimage > http://www.vieilalbum.com/BrownieStarletFR.htm > > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information