[Leica] Friday Flowers - Aram

[Don Dory]

Bedridden bring a beautiful scene,  caption your father in action is
priceless.

On Fri, May 26, 2023, 5:39 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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 film, 20 years out of date from the freezer.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
>
> --
> 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
>
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