Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A fellow over on the Internet Directory of Camera Collectors has been trying for six months to buy a Kodak Print Quality Kodauide that I've been advertising for years. If he'd asked me for it eight months ago, it would have been his forthwith, but he asked for it in the midst of my move, and so he had to wait. We are having a neighborhood yard sale this weekend and I went to digging out my camera stuff for "$1 or make an offer" bids -- in yard sales, you rarely hit folks interested in cameras but, when you do, they are avid, and maybe I can pass over buckets of accumulated crap, er, goodies to another owner, so that I can then see these at the next neighborhood yard sale on HIS table. In any event, and I do rattle on as does Mark Rabiner, I did find the Kodak Print Quality Kodaguide, tucked between a copy of Marion Hargrove's THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND OR ALL QUIET IN THE THIRD PLATOON (the second sequel to SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE!) and SILHOUETTES OF COMMONLY SIGHTED WARSAW PACT SHIPS, GTA-55-5-21, dtd AUG 1983. In the same box were relics of my childhood visits to Boston and Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, along with a Prewar CZJ stereo microscope and a Canonet. I didn't pack this box! Blame this one on my wife! It also included the tape dispenser from my office desk -- the desk is now beside me, and it sighed in delight when I placed the accustomed tape dispenser on it, once again. Still in business at the same familiar apple-stand, and all of that. Along with this came a couple of packs of pictures. Two or three of these were shot with my Leica IIIc. Most of my pictures are in medium format and most are chromes, and I have not yet figured out how to scan chromes or, for that matter, negatives. I have buckets of prints from the 1990's and early 2000's back in Roanoke, not yet moved to my new home yet, and YES, I do pray taht Mark Rabiner will win the Lottery and do me the honor of buying my Roanoke abode, in which case I shall be motivated to move everything out posthaste. In any event, I do have a paltry number of IIIc shots which I could post for comment, probably negative, if someone could advise me how to do so. These aren't much, kids, but you guys have been bugging me ... Once I figure out how to scan chromes on my Epson 1200S, antiquated though it is, I may post more. But, again, most of my photography is with my Rolleiflex 2.8GX or F or my Hassleblad SWC or 2000 FCM. Now, I generally only pick up a Leica when I am on the road, and that is rare, as I am old and worn out! Now, speaking of an oldster who is not worn-out, we could talk about Ted Grant and his role in the fall of Queen Carlotta, but that is a delicate tale for a different day! She never talked nor did he -- does a gentleman EVER talk? -- but the sheets told all but, again, that really is a saga we should flog on another occasion, along with the story of Ted's managing to be the sole survivor from Custer's Last Stand. That man has been everywhere and has experienced it all. Seriously, how do I post pictures so you guys can look at them? Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!