[Leica] Leica Users Group Yearbook 1969 NOW FIRST PRINT! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Sonny Carter offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users Group Yearbook 1969


> For me, it was souping at the base hobby shop Rhein/Main AFB Germany,
> probably summer of 1960.  I'll never forget seeing that first print come 
> up.
>
>
> I was 15 when the miracle struck.<<<<<<

Hi Sonny,
You are so right about that first print! It begins to appear in the 
developer tray! I don't think anyone who continues with photography as a 
hobby or profession will ever forget seeing it happen the first time. It 
appears as pure magic; expose paper, in to the tray goes a pure white piece 
of paper, then slowly the picture begins to appear and you keep making quick 
glances at the timer on the wall, back to the print waiting for the one 
minute or minute and a half when the print should be perfect and into the 
stop bath a quick 15 seconds and the fixer tray.

Turn the light on and you admire what you've just done...... made your first 
print. :-) WOW!

Then you look over at the enlarger table while the white light is still on 
and there sits a 100 sheet box of paper with no lid on because you forgot to 
put the lid on! :-( OOPS! Been there and done it a few times! :-) And I'd 
bet I'm not alone on that one! :-)

cheers,
ted