[Leica] A grab bag of comments

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

A grab bag of comments about recent LUG posts.

Mark,
It would be tough to use the Graflex for photographing carrier
landings if it was anything like the one I used in the early '50s.
Disregarding the fact that you had to reverse your concept of left and
right, it took about half a second for the mirror to flip up and the
shutter to move across the film opening when taking a picture. And if
you didn't have a lens with an auto diaphragm, it took longer. In that
time the plane would have traveled almost 200 feet. The few sports
photographers who used Graflex cameras to film baseball complained
that they had to release the shutter before the pitcher threw the ball
to get a shot of the batter swinging (or not).

Lluis,
Picasso's "Guernica" was on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art
for a number of years. It occupied a solo room near the wall sized
mural of Monet's "Water Lillies." You could go from wartime chaos to
tranquility in a few steps. Picasso refused to have Guernica  hung in
Fascist Spain during WW2. I believe it was returned after his death.

Tina,
I think my blood would boil at 13,000 feet. About ten years ago my
wife and I contemplated a hut to hut X-C ski trip on the 10th Mountain
Division trail in Colorado. Her brother was a member of that division
and she always considered herself a better skier. We chickened out
when we discovered that all the huts were above 11,000 feet and you
had to ski the trail carrying 50 pounds of supplies. Although we might
have tried if you were standing beside the trail handing out little
bags of candies.

A belated Happy New Year to everyone.

Larry Z