[Leica] looking for an image

[Jim Nichols]

Brian, are you looking for an aluminum can or the later plastic one?  
Like Wayne, I have a couple of rolls of Kodak film in my freezer, but 
they are less than 10 yrs old.  All of the nice aluminum cans are long gone.

On 11/15/20 8:10 PM, Brian Reid 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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Jim Nichols
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