Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Mark, > > I think I actually shot the picture with a Canon AE-1. The FA wan't > released until I think 1983. 'Al' foaled in 1982...I got rid of my > Canon for the FA the following year. I never liked the breech-mount FD > lenses. They were good lenses but I hated the mount...took too much > time to change lenses. This was before Canon and Nikon started making > decent zooms and 'most of us' used only primes, at least I did. I had > the slide printed back then so it's no longer in it's cardboard mount > (with date) but in a Pakon mount, which I hope is archival? > > Jim Laird > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: >>> Just fired up my 'new' Coolscan 4000ED last night and tried scanning >>> some old Kodachromes for practice. I like this one. I'ts a picture of >>> our quarter horse 'Al' who is now 28 years old. He was 1 or 2 days old >>> when I snapped the shutter on my Nikon FA (I think). Cute, isn't he? >>> That's my wife next to him who was also 1 or 2 days old;-) >>> >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/digiratidoc/Friday/Baby-Al-Scan.jpg.html> >>> >>> ?Comments and criticism welcome. >>> >>> Jim Laird> >>> >> >> That's ?perfect on my monitor. Right on the money. Looks like Kodachrome. >> Looks like you shot it with a LS-4000!:) >> Wish there was some way the thing could be traced all the way back. >> But I suspect if we looked real hard at the grain structure we'd never >> find >> which f stop and camera we used for all those shots. >> >> And nice shot! >> I like horses. Especially small ones. Nice composition. >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> The Canon AE-1 a landmark camrea. It outsold all other cameras for years breaking records. My assistant used one. And a good number of my friends. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner