Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > your post reminded me about my most interesting LF experience. In 1972 I > was running a darkroom in the student union, and the administrator of the > facility found out we could get access to government surplus photo > equipment, so for cheap we obtained a Fairchild F56 aerial camera with a > 20" lens that took either 9" roll film or 5x7 sheets in a 12 sheet > magazine similar to a Grafmatic. I bought a 25 sheet box of 5x7 Plus-X > and shot them all wherever I could find vistas (the lens was of course > fixed at infinity). It was a workout. No tripod socket and about 30 > pounds of LONG camera. But I only got around to processing four > negatives, so the rest of the exposed film has been in the freezer ever > since. > > Maybe when I retire I'll get them developed. ;~) a m a z i n g - on so many different levels. "photographers" really are a strange sub culture. ;~) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist