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Subject: [Leica] Older than Jerry Lehrer! Zeiss-Ikon Taxo c1927
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Tue Jul 24 15:33:32 2007
References: <46A67B05.4050807@hemenway.com>

Jim,

These are unbelievable. Just beautiful.

Len


On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Hi Folks:
>
> I went to the Brimfield Antique Flea Market a little over a week  
> ago... <http://www.hemenway.com/Brimfield-07132007/>
>
> While there I bought this quarter-glass-plate camera.
>
> I wanted to take some photos with it but don't have any glass  
> plates, especially in Ektachrome.
>
> So I cut some pieces of poster board and discovered that 3-1/4 x  
> 4-1/4 would fit perfectly, and that the springs behind the film  
> would push it against the film plane just as it would with a glass  
> plate.
>
> I cut some 4x5 to size and shot a couple of photos at Lanes Cove on  
> Sunday afternoon.
>
> My lab graciously offered to do a special E-6 run for the odd size.
>
> Here's the results:
> <http://www.hemenway.com/Zeiss-Ikon-TAXO-07222007/>
>
> Life can be fun.
>
> Jim
>
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