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Subject: [Leica] anyone see conjunction?
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:12:58 -0400
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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
>
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