Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] Old photos from 1965
From: hjwulff at gmail.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:27:45 -0700
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Douglas, I have a number of photos that I took in this as well as other GP's 
in 1965 and 1967 and CanAm races in Edmonton where I lived. Unfortunately, 
for the most part the pictures are rather poor technically as my long lens 
was a 200/4.5 Telyt on a Visoflex I. It's not easy doing action shots with 
that rig on Kodachrome when the weather is dark and rainy!

In 1965 I went to three GP races, of which Spa was the first. I was hitch 
hiking around Europe from Spain to Sweden for 5 months, and the races were 
some of the defined time/places I went to visit. They were inexpensive to 
see, but my film budget did not allow me to shoot very much, unfortunately. 
I had inherited the cameras, but feeding them adequately, especially for a 5 
month trip, was a bit beyond my student budget.

It was a wonderful time to see GP races; no fences and you could go and talk 
to the drivers afterwards. Now it's better on TV, but the sound of those V6 
turbos???

Henning



On 2014-03-15, at 3:00 AM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> "Henning Wulff" <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> Start of Belgian Grand Prix, 1965 in Spa-Francorchamps. I sat on the 
>> slope above Eau Rouge, a famous corner. All pictures on this trip were 
>> taken with a Leica IIIg or Ig.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/old/Europe+1965/A1306330.jpg.html
>> 
> 
> A nice atmosphere captured well, Henning. Spa is one of the great 
> circuits. That was when racers were racers and safety rules were minimal. 
> Have you any more motor racing ones from that era? Interesting to see that 
> four USians were on the grid, and now there's not a single one on the grid 
> for tomorrow's Australian GP. Times change.
> 
> Douglas 
> 
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Henning Wulff
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