Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/09

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Subject: [Leica] HCB negative
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:35:44 +0930
References: <BANLkTikz8jG4f4_ByT0oXOt+jNaiCTiKNQ@mail.gmail.com>
 
I thought it looked like a copy from a single sprocket film.  Thanks Larry.

At Picto they used to make prints of a lot of HC-B photos from copies.
 The originals were probably regarded as too precious to use over and
over.

Marty


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Simple measurement with a ruler shows that the film strip is full 35 mm
> width. So it is unlikely that a row of sprocket holes was cut off. The LTM
> Leicas had a film frame counting sprocket with teeth on top and bottom. The
> film strip shows no indentations on the blank side. Copying cameras were
> designed to use both single sprocketed and unsprocketed film. The only
> parsimonious conclusion is that the HCB film strip is a copy of the 
> original
> negative.
>
> Larry Z
>
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