[Leica] IMG: From My Kodak APS Days

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks for the comments, Craig.  I found the Kodak version to be a nice 
pocket camera to carry while walking the runways and taxiways at the 
local airport, where I got my exercise.  But, alas, when Walmart ended 
film processing, quality dropped off quickly.  We have one mom & pop 
shop which can do good work if their equipment is working properly, but, 
unfortunately, the used equipment available these days gives them a lot 
of trouble.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/3/2018 4:05 PM, Craig Schroeder wrote:
> 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.
>>