Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With great luck and fortune, I am a photographer, working for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, for 24 years, as the chief and only photographer, from an original crew of 5 (times are tough). I am not rich, however my lovely wife, Nancy, and I don't have children so I can occasionally splurge. My grandfather worked in the oil fields of Oklahoma, early in the century and was an avid photographer. I have his negative files and they are awesome, with a huge variety of formats. He had a lot of cameras. My father was a photographer for the daily newsstations and newspapers in Oklahoma over a long career, using everything from Arriflexes to Zeiss. He has a large file of Kodachromes he shot in Korea (along with much B+W), even using x-ray films and chemistry when other stuff was unavailable. He has also had many varieties of cameras, too numerous to mention. He recently gave me a IIIa with a 50 summar (super clean), a 135 telesar (?) and a 3" f2 Bausch & Lomb, rangefinder-coupled tessar, some really neat stuff like Nookys, etc. I love this guy. I must mention my mother, Tanaka Tsuyako, from whom what little of my artistic side evolved from. Born in Japan in 1930, she was an artist as a painter, potter, flower arranger and many other mediums. I still have a few of her Raku pots that are gorgeous. Most of my friends aren't photographers and my black paint M4 means little to any of them, except they think it needs a paint retouch. My one photographer friend uses Nikon, mostly a D1 with some nice Nikkors. In direct comparisons, my film always beats his digital. There I am, thanks for a listen, Jimbo - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html