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Subject: [Leica] IMG: One Neg Survives From My First Roll
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:47:10 -0400
References: <4500029.1284755239949.JavaMail.root@elwamui-little.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

somewhat more arty without the crop

ric


On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Montie Talbert wrote:

> 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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