Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Want to buy my camera? It's a Wirgin! I bet you were in Central Camera on Wabash. "The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a Purple Heart on." -- Eliot Rosewater, President, The Rosewater Foundation -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:38:50 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Early trauma > > Around 1943 I got traumatized. This was the thick of WWII, and > cameras were hard to find. I was lucky enough to find a little > non-range-finder 35mm camera called a Wirgin, if I remember > correctly. I think I found it in a large camera store in Chicago, > where I was living. I took it with me on vacation to New York. At the > end of a roll of Kodachrome, I took some pictures of flowers in a > friend's garden. The camera was pretty small and light, and my > hand-held exposures were generally at 1/100. > > On returning to Chicago, I took the camera and pictures to the lab > where I was working to show off to a colleague. The bastard started > examining the frames with a 20X magnifier and announced: "Your camera > is no good; they're not sharp." Then, when he got to the last of the > lot, he exclaimed: "This one is sharp." > > The last picture was taken with the camera on a tripod, as the sun > was going down. I was so traumatized by this experience that for the > next 55 years, I was reluctant to shoot hand-held at less than 1/250. > Happily, some of the postings by Ted Grant have taught me to do > better. > > Herb > > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, > for they are subtle and will pee > on your computer! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information