[Leica] PESO Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess

[Jim Shulman]

This past June I attended the annual WWII Weekend at the Reading, PA Air
Museum—and event that attracts more than 50,000 tourists, re-enactors,
historians and various hangers-on.  Every year I try to bring some
authentic piece of photo equipment along—one year a prewar movie camera (I
should double 8mm movies that time), another a Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta A
folding camera, and this past year an appropriate Leica outfit.  The Leica
was a 1938 iiib, with Summar 5cm lens, WINTU right-angle finder, SCNOO
rapidwinder and a half-dozen FILCA metal cassettes loaded with Kodak 5222,
which I subsequently developed in D-76 at 1:1.  My friend Sam (aka Crazy
Fedya) just made some prints from the best images, trimmed them with a
deckle-edge print trimmer (years ago I found about a half-dozen of these
trimmers at a camera show), and added a period-appropriate date stamp.
Next step is pasting them onto a black construction-paper album page, and
annotating with white ink!



Enjoy!



http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/wwii+snapshots/





Jim Shulman

Wynnewood, PA