Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>wrote: >I'm helping produce a photo book, and we are interested in ending the >pictures section with a stock-like photograph of an empty 35mm film >spool. The idea is to show that there are no more pictures; a picture of >a spool with no more film came to mind. By "spool" I don't mean >something made by Kindermann or Nikor, but by Kodak or Ilford. >If I had a time machine I would go back to 1975, buy a 20-exposure roll >of Tri-X, open it and sacrifice the film, and photograph the empty can >and the empty spool on a simple background. >I've thrown away literally thousands of these spools and cans over the >decades, and now I don't have any to photograph. Do you have a >photograph that you would let me use in this book or a spool you could >send to be photographed? >Thanks for looking, as they say. >Brian ============================================================= Brian, if no one comes up with anything, I could take a photo to your specs. I've got a collection of probably 100+ film cassettes, cans and boxes going back to the early 1950's. Some of the metal cans have color-coded tops and bottoms, and I have plain silver ones and all sorts of plastic ones. -- 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 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <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