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Subject: [Leica] Glen '62 - '63 and distortion
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Apr 26 17:25:28 2006

I noticed that too. Could it be caused by the fact that the cars are on a
curving line? These lenses are not simple things to figure out.


On 4/26/06 8:19 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:

> Thanks, BD. That was a heavy camera, too.
> 
> I've been looking at your out of the office window view (with some
> post-envy -- my office had a window onto a corridor) and it seems to my eye
> there is some distortion on the left side, and along the bottom: the cars
> seem oddly shaped, the bus rounding the corner is stretched and the car
> following it stretched as well. Maybe because they were moving? In any case
> the distortion is not unsettling...
> 
> bill
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Glen '62 - '63
> 
> 
>> Very, very cool, Bill. Images from the days when iron men drove steel
>> cars.
>> ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/26/06 7:54 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Got out some old views of racing at Watkins Glen in 1962 or 1963. Can't
>>> be
>>> sure of IDs, can anyone help?
>>> 
>>> Starting here, and the next five pix
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album303/Driver_w
>>> 
>>> Taken with OT equipment (Miranda F with normal 50 and Craptar 135) on a
>>> medium that is becoming OT, film, TriX, and I always used D76 in those
>>> days.
>>> The darkroom was in a former coalbin. Remember coal?
>>> 
>>> (Ha)
>>> 
>>> bill h, Listening to Sounds of Sebring '58
>>> 
>>> Comments gratefully accepted
>>> 
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