Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, Is it slide or print film, can you remember that much? The color has held up amazingly well. Vince On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Dave R wrote > > "Nice photo, Doug. Somewhere I've got a photo that I took (using a Leica > M4) about 20 years ago during a partial solar eclipse. I was in Salt > Lake City at the time. I didn't photograph the actual eclipse. I just > photographed the shadow of a tree during the eclipse. > > What was strange about the image was that the shadow from each leaf > appeared to have a little notch cut out of it, as a result of the > eclipse. I once saw a similar photo that Ansel Adams had taken years > ago. It wasn't the kind of photo you'd hang on a wall, but it showed the > somewhat bizarre terra manifestation of a solar eclipse. If I can ever > find the negative I'll scan it. Or if someone else has one, I'd like to > see it. Like I said, it's really bizarre." > > - - - - - - > > Do you mean pictures like this? > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+Solar+Eclipse.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+eclipse+detail.jpg.html > > > They were taken during a partial solar eclipse visible in New York in 1969. > The images were formed by sunlight passing through gaps between the leaves > of a tree, each gap acting like a tiny pinhole camera. As you can see the > average New Yorker is pretty blase about astronomical happenings. The > camera > was my ever ready Rollei 35. I don't recall what the film was. > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >