[Leica] looking for an image

[Wayne Torry]

Brian,
Is there a lab nearby that still processes film? They should have empties
for you.
If all fails, I can mail you a roll of B&W. Or Kodachrome. That was the end
of film to me.
Good luck!
Wayne


On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 9:11 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
wrote:

> I'm helping produce a photo book, and we are interested in ending the
> pictures section with a stock-like photograph of an empty 35mm film
> spool. The idea is to show that there are no more pictures; a picture of
> a spool with no more film came to mind. By "spool" I don't mean
> something made by Kindermann or Nikor, but by Kodak or Ilford.
>
> If I had a time machine I would go back to 1975, buy a 20-exposure roll
> of Tri-X, open it and sacrifice the film, and photograph the empty can
> and the empty spool on a simple background.
>
> I've thrown away literally thousands of these spools and cans over the
> decades, and now I don't have any to photograph. Do you have a
> photograph that you would let me use in this book or a spool you could
> send to be photographed?
>
> Thanks for looking, as they say.
>
> Brian
>
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