Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: > > I got my first camera with adjustments for the holidays when i was 13 in 1964 in Chicago. > It was a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm rangefinder camera. > Guess what? there was lots of snow on the ground! We had had a snow storm. > With my first roll of film that day I found myself lying on my stomach on a > frozen over snowed over creek bed to get the right angle on a shot. Ektachrome X > film I shot which was ASA 64. I recall an EV of 17 or 18! > My mom entered a 5x7 print of the shot in a photo contest and it won a prize!. I > was able to revive and reinstate the dirty and scratched slide by digitally > cleaning it up this year! > Sure i got cold shooting my first roll of film, but you get home you take a hot > shower and you are OK. > > mark rabiner > :) I found the scan and worked it up for e mailing so if anyone wants to see that shot E-mail me off list and I'll E-mail one off to you complete with an off the wall pretentious description of THE MAKING OF A PHOTOGRAPH! mark rabiner :) Mark William Rabiner mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com