[Leica] Friday Flowers - Aram

[Aram Langhans]

Not my typical flower shot.  This is my 100 year old father-in-law 
taking a photo of a flower field by his house.   And I took the photo on 
a recently acquired Kodak Retina of 1936 vintage using Kodak Portra 400 
film, 20 years out of date from the freezer.  The camera is almost as 
old as he is and was fun to shoot, though I messed up quite a few times 
with the shutter and film advance.  They are not coupled and separate 
movements are required to do each of these things so you need to get a 
routine going to be sure you advanced the film before you take the next 
shot.  Fun.  Lens not too bad for a 87 year old design.  The first few 
shots were out of focus until I figured out the lens markings were in 
meters and not feet.  Then I was able to guess pretty well as the 
viewfinder is essentially a tube to line things up rather than focus.

Kodak Retina Portra 400 4-23to5-23011 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ff/Kodak+Retina+Portra+400+4-23to5-23011.jpg.html>

Comments welcome.

Aram

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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson