[Leica] IMG: From My Kodak APS Days

[Craig Schroeder]

Back in those days, I sent an APS Konica (Revio?) with my daughter for a 
year in Aix en Provence as an easy-carry rig.  She had good photography 
basic habits and came home with surprisingly solid snapshots.  A small 
mom & pop shop in her block did very nice, careful processing.  She 
would stop for her pictures and always allow time for the elderly lady 
to unwrap the prints from tissue with a nice bow.  She would go through 
every shot and explain how she printed it.  Some had 5 test prints 
before she got it just right sometimes.  She would send the test prints 
home with her, too.  What a fortunate find for my daughter....  She 
returned there and taught for a year but I sent a small 35mm SLR that 
time and I can't say the snap-sized shots were much better than the 
carefully processed APS.

On 05/03/18 1:08 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> There was a period when I was very busy at work, and sought a simple 
> solution to snapshots.  I picked up a Kodak APS camera at a pawn shop, 
> and tried that system.  When the original camera failed, I contacted 
> Kodak and they sent me a brand new one, free!
>
> Here are a few images from that period, that might be of interest to 
> aircraft fanatics.
>
> The local Beechcraft Museum has some one-of-a-kind airplanes. This is 
> a replica of the Travel Air R.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20071024-Travel+Air+R+Replica.JPG.html 
>
>
> This is a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.  As I recall, it crash-landed while 
> returning to Texas.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20071024-Lockheed+P-38+Lightning.JPG.html 
>
>
> This is Grumman TBF Avenger.  My uncle was a gunner on one of these, 
> and was killed during a Kamakazi attack on the carrier Franklin in the 
> South Pacific.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20071024-Grumman+TBM-3E+Avenger+01.JPG.html 
>
>
> Nose Art was widely used to personalize aircraft during WWII. This 
> B-25 Mitchell was no exception.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20071024-USAF+B-25+Mitchell.JPG.html 
>
>
> The Kodak APS system worked well, as long as there were labs to handle 
> the cartridges.  I gather that the APS sensor size is a descendant of 
> this design.
>
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