Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The lens is big, yes, but is it full frame? :-) Time to process those films! Coincidentally, I haven't shot this much film since probably 2010, when I got the M9. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > Coincidentally with the discussion on formats, I came across the negatives > of me with the biggest camera I ever used. In 1972 I was running a > darkroom in the student union when the Craft Centre director discovered we > had access to government surplus for the facility. He and I went to the > surplus warehouse in Madison and with very little cost secured a Fairchild > F-56 aerial camera with 20" f/5.6 lens. It came in a case with a vacuum > back for 9" wide roll film, but also a Grafmatic-type back for multiple > sheets of 5x7 film. This is the back I used to take vistas around town, > since the lens was fixed focus at infinity. The camera is most likely > still lurking in some basement corner in the union. > > I shot a box of 25 sheets, but only got around to processing about eight > (in a tray). I've had the exposed film in a freezer since 1972 ;~) > > < > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_30A.jpg.html > > > < > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_33A.jpg.html > > > > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA POY 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits