Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist