[Leica] IMGs: Wayback Photos

Jim Hemenway jim at hemenway.com
Tue Jan 29 19:42:07 PST 2019


Alan, thanks for posting these "vintage" photos.

I bought a used Baby Speed Graphic 2x3 in the '60s and It only came with 
only one film pack.
I shot all 8 of the possible images for a college project and that was 
it... because there
were no more of them being manufactured.

Jim H


On 1/29/19 4:46 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> I'm organizing my father's negatives of family, World War II, and
> optometric college pictures.  I still have two of his cameras - a Foth
> Derby for 127 film, and a Voigtlander Bergheil 6x9 camera equipped with
> 10.5cm f/4.5 Heliar lens (same as Brassai's camera).  I'm amazed at the
> volume of negatives he shot with the Bergheil with a 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 film
> pack adapter.  Lots of family pictures, and photos showing activities at
> the (then) Chicago College of Optometry where he was enrolled, and served
> as photo editor of the yearbook.
>
> Here is the camera with flash and roll film back (which I use). It features
> rising and shifting front standard and double extension bellows. Still have
> the really beat up film pack adapter and some cut film holders with leather
> case.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/DadPix/20181223_MR_Bergheil.jpg.html
> Two shots taken for the school.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/DadPix/Ca_1954_MSR_CCO_ExamGirl_DSF6120.jpg.html
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/DadPix/Ca_1954_MSR_CCO_Rooster_DSF6160.jpg.html
> All can be viewed large.


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