Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In digitizing some of my archive of negatives and slides, I've found images without complete information. One picture that had vexed me was of a truck hauling a huge girder for an expressway bridge that I shot in 1967. I was pretty sure I took it just south of downtown (called the Third Ward) and I was going to cruise around there to see if I could find the location. Well, on Saturday I was in that area for a vintage motorcycle show, and thought the buildings near Pittsburgh Avenue looked familiar. I shot some frames with my Lumix and it was the right place. There is even a sign for a different bar in the upper right corner (I composed from memory, but got pretty close). < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/19670325_MR_HIST_2A.jpg.html > < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/20160220_MR_Mine_LMX1020789.jpg.html > I took the original photo with my first reflex camera - an Asahiflex that had a waist-level finder plus an optical finder for a 50mm lens. The camera was old when I got it and when the temperature was below 50F the shutter got cranky and the mirror would not return to the down position. I got used to unscrewing the lens and pulling the mirror down with my fingernail after each shot. I eventually sold this camera to the regional Pentax rep to help finance the purchase of my first M3, a second-hand one that I used for 40 years (my favorite camera ever). -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt