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Subject: [Leica] IMG: More Kodak APS Images
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 17:55:50 -0500
References: <e28d94fe-38b3-53df-1ce4-294ec335f9d5@lighttube.net> <94D3D87E-5EC6-4CC9-A0A5-8384B5E5F63A@gmail.com>

Thanks for the kind words, Lluis.

I just dug into my cluttered closet and found the cassettes.? The ones I 
looked at were marked Advantix 200.? It may have been made especially 
for the APS camera.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/7/2018 5:32 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote:
> Great work Jim, I like very much your scanns, the look perfect, which film 
> are you scanning? On Saturday I?ve scanned some Kodakolor  II negatives 6 
> x 6 from 1980 and the scan results with horrible colors and I was unable 
> to correct them.
>
> LLuis
>
>
>> El 4 maig 2018, a les 21:19, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
>> escriure:
>>
>> I appreciate all of the responses to my posting of APS images. One LUGGER 
>> who responded off-list asked if I had any more of these APS images.  In 
>> reviewing my images from 1986, I found another set.
>>
>> Normally, cameras are not allowed on-base at Arnold Engineering 
>> Development Center, where I spent 39 years.  But, in 1986, the base held 
>> an open house for employees and their families. Displays were set up 
>> showing items of interest, and cameras were permitted.  I took advantage 
>> of this opportunity to capture a few images to which I had not had access 
>> previously.  I am almost positive that the Kodak APS camera was my choice 
>> that day.
>>
>> The Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility is composed of two 16-ft wind tunnels 
>> and one 4-ft wind tunnel, along with the plant equipment to support them. 
>>  The main drive system for the large tunnels originally had 216,000 HP on 
>> one shaft, and has since been upgraded.  Here is a view of the compressor 
>> for the transonic tunnel.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+16T+Compressor+from+Across+the+Street.JPG.html
>>
>> That red & white stack is 200 ft tall.
>>
>> This is the nameplate on one of the two largest motors.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+PWT+Large+Motor+Nameplate.JPG.html
>>
>> This is one of the numerous auxiliary compressors that support the tunnel 
>> operations.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+PES+F-Unit.JPG.html
>>
>> At the time of the open house, a lot of store testing was being done in 
>> the transonic tunnels and three neat models were on display:
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+A-10+Test+Model+from+16T.JPG.html
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+FB-111+Test+Model+from+16T.JPG.html
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070917-1986+Open+House_+F-16+Test+Model+from+16T.JPG.html
>>
>> The little Kodak APS camera did its job!
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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