Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/24

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Subject: [Leica] New photo of my son
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:57:22 -0600
References: <CD265215.26259%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:

> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1592
> 
> I shot this Tuesday afternoon with my ancient Rolleiflex Automat Type 1,
> made in 1938. It has an uncoated Tessar lens, but is still a very sharp
> lens.
> 
> This was my first medium format camera. My dad bought it for me at a camera
> swap meet he took me to when I was 14. I haven't used it in many years. I
> got to be afraid I'd break it because of its age, so I stopped shooting 
> with
> it since I had gotten more modern medium format gear later on. I think its
> been 15 years since I used it, and it still worked perfectly!
> 
> My son is 15 in this photo.

Beautiful photograph

Beautiful dedication to "documenting" with words and pictures.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
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