[Leica] RETROSPECT 46

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 CartersXRd <cartersxrd at gmail.com>wrote:

>I remember that talk, too

>he was right, of course

>started newpaper career as sports stringer a couple of nights a week

>we did the same thing here, I?d hit 2 or 3 games depending on who was
playing where, sports wrtirers would each have a short roll

>I?d do 12-20 rolls of film on a Friday night, hitting the darkroom about
10 or 11pm

>actually got to the point that I could get four short rolls on one steel
reel (back-to-back emilsion out, inner reel/outer reel) Four reels in a
tank. One tank for >1600 push HP5 or P3200 and one for 400 HP5.

>came home at 2am, reeking of rapid fixer

>ric
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Glad I never had to do that.  My least favorite jobs at the university were
covering business luncheons/banquets and sports, but luckily, our school
wasn't
in big-time athletics.

-- 
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
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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