Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley wrote: LUGnuts - I was feeling overwhelmed this morning so I decided to waste a couple of hours counting all of the rolls of film that I have developed but not edited or filed. The grand total is 2158 rolls. This reminded me of Gary Winograd. John Szarkowski, in _Wingrad, Figments from the Real World_, writes: "At the time of his death in 1984 more than 2,500 rolls of exposed film remained undeveloped, which seemed appalling, but the real situation was much worse. An additional 6,500 rolls had been developed but not proofed. Contact sheets (first proofs) had been made from some 3,000 additional rolls...one might reasonably ask whether a backlog of this magnitude should be considered a technical problem or a psychological one... A few years ago I attended a talk by Paul Caponigro, one of the master printers of my generation. Several were surprised when he related that he hadn't taken a photograph in five years. His response was "have you printed all your negatives that you want to print?" Paul showed some marvelous color slides from Ireland and Italy taken with "an old Leica." I was quite impressed by the sharpness and clarity. After the talk, I asked him how often he used a tripod. "More than half the time," he replied. Phil Stiles NH USA Week 14: http://www.worldpath.net/~pjs/13.jpg (this isn't a Leica shot, my M4-P rewind knob is being replaced in Germany. With a CLA thrown in, the estimate was $400.)