Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Larsen wrote: > My best remembrance of using bulb and time on the exposure settings is from > when I was about 8 years old and talked my grandfather into helping me make > "flash powder." (That was back in the olden days when you could buy a real > chemistry kit and actually resupply it...you could make firecrackers, bombs, > various other pyrotechnic devices). My grandfathers's usual response to such > a request was "let's don't and say we did" ... but that was usually in > response to various ideas such as derailing trains, tying down pressure > regulators on boilers, etc. That's great, Bill! I distinctly remember my Gilbert chemistry set, my decision to move up to larger test tubes, and staggering to the basement door with a bubbling test tube that was generating _way_ too much chlorine gas! Pyrotechnics were certainly a fascination, too. I remember one Saturday morning, my father opening the upstairs cellar door as a cloud of sulfurous smoke rolled up the stairwell ... "What are you doing down there?".My stock answer ... "Oh, nothing much" ... Good thing I abandoned the chemistry career for Leicas! Mike Gardner