Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, Wow! Don't ever lose those negs, they're part of history. See if you can spot a young Bill Graham in any of those photos, he was involved in the S.F. Mime Troupe before he became a big-time rock promoter. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Lawlor" <wvl@marinternet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:37 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: Glow test > Right now I have the test prints hanging up to dry. I found a roll of negs I > shot in 1964 or 65 in San Francisco. The film is Kodak Plus X Pan, no > emulsion number in those days. I used D-76 then so it must apply to these > negs too. The shots are of a group of uniformed and detective police > breaking up a public performance by the S.F. Mime Troupe in a park. Those > were the early days of the free speech movement and the Mime Troupe put on > street theatre that used real live four letter words. Accordingly, they had > to be silenced by law and order. The image I selected shows a very clean cut > young radical surrounded by middle aged police who are about to arrest > him.The negs were made by me using a Pentax H1a slr with 55mm/2 Super > Takumar lens. The camera pre-dated the TTL Spotmatics and the lens pre dated > the Super Multicoated lenses. I'm impressed with the image quality. I still > have the camera which was a gift from my Dad on my 21st. > >