Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, I have seen this before. In 1941, who could get 18 keepers from one roll of film from a Brownie camera. Most that I am familiar with would take a maximum of 8, or perhaps 12 images. The referenced link supplied earlier points out other inconsistancies. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 2:16 PM Subject: [Leica] Pearl Harbour Photographs > LUG: > > This is interesting: > > Forwarded from Pro-Imaging: > > "I have put up on the link below, some photographs sent to me by a good > friend, of the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Although many > others have been published before, in my view these are very spectacular > and bring home the true horror of war. > > The photographs were taken by a sailor stationed on the USS Quapaw, > using an old Kodak Brownie Box Camera. > > What is all the more remarkable is that these images were on a roll of > film that was found only recently, still inside the camera - 68 years > after the event! > > I wonder if images on a sensor would last that long! > > <http://www.pro-imaging.org/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,120/catid,10 > 7/> > > Out of courtesy to the photographer who is unknown, I will only leave > the images up for the weekend. > > Norman Childs " > > > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >