[Leica] IMG: One Neg Survives From My First Roll

[montoid at earthlink.net (Montie Talbert)]

Thanks for looking Jim,

The shot is purely sentimental, Obviously there is no value other than 
that, I wonder how many on the list have their very first shots/negs still?
At 13, I was not really into it, too busy trying to steal my Dads
ciggys!  ;-)

Montie



>>Hi Montie,

With a little cropping and sharpening, it would make a nice keeper.  At your 
age, all I had was a little plastic camera that took rolls of "00" film, 
that no one wanted to develop and print.  I think I have one shot of my 
grandparents that I  made with it.

Eight percent keepers is about what many of us get with digicams these days. 
;~)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Montie Talbert" <montoid at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 3:27 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: One Neg Survives From My First Roll


> The Links Always Help!
>
> OK,
>
> It's 1963 (I'm 13 years old) in Scottsdale AZ (before there were people 
> there),
> My Dad brings home a really cheap (probably the cheapest) small plastic 
> yellow box
> camera which I think had a flash cube one it.  "Go shoot some pictures and 
> then
> bring me the camera" (or something along that line).
>
> I think you got 12 shots (127) I blew 11 somehow and only one was printed.
> For some reason my Mother had those lousy negs and one print in her 
> personal
> stuff which I found after she died in 1997.  Maybe because the shot was of 
> my
> younger sister.  I recall breaking the camera soon after getting it and 
> didn't
> pick up another one until high school which I think was a six 16 Kodak 
> folder,
> and took some pretty nice shots that are long gone (I'm nowhere near as
> organized as Jim Nichols) His lovely shot inspired this post, and I'm 
> positive
> the excitement is killing you!  :-))
>
> Full Frame:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/Les-1963.jpg.html
>
> Crop:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/Les2-1963.jpg.html
>
> Montie
>
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