Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2007-10-31-15:02:57 Tina Manley: > With all of the talk about Kurds and Turks, I was inspired to go back > through my files and find my photos of Kurdish men in the bazaar in > Kermanashah, Iran, in 1974. These were made with the only camera I > had at the time - a Minolta SRT 101 - on outdated TriX film bought > from shop in Tehran and developed in my Farsi bathroom > darkroom. It's a miracle they even came out! I like the pictures! I see some pretty stylin' headgear and facial hair on some of those gents... And, coincidentally, the equipment has a special resonance for me. My very first big-boy 35mm camera, bought in 1975 to replace a 110 Instamatic, was a Minolta SRT-101 (with the decadently fancy f/1.4 50mm lens). I shot, and gradually homed in on learning to process and print properly, much Tri-X in that camera. I might have to blow the dust off some of those negatives and see how they hold up. -Jeff