Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Way cool. My brother did aerial reconnaissance interpretation for the Air Force when I was a kid & brought me several continuous rolls of processed 9" film. I tried to figure out where the images were taken but never could. Jay On 1/6/2015 10:10 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > Coincidentally with the discussion on formats, I came across the negatives > of me with the biggest camera I ever used. In 1972 I was running a > darkroom in the student union when the Craft Centre director discovered we > had access to government surplus for the facility. He and I went to the > surplus warehouse in Madison and with very little cost secured a Fairchild > F-56 aerial camera with 20" f/5.6 lens. It came in a case with a vacuum > back for 9" wide roll film, but also a Grafmatic-type back for multiple > sheets of 5x7 film. This is the back I used to take vistas around town, > since the lens was fixed focus at infinity. The camera is most likely > still lurking in some basement corner in the union. > > I shot a box of 25 sheets, but only got around to processing about eight > (in a tray). I've had the exposed film in a freezer since 1972 ;~) > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_30A.jpg.html >> > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_33A.jpg.html >> >