Right! The gold-dollar was given up circa 1933.
A $1 gold coin as old as your lens cannot be completely excluded as a
result ;-)
Amitiés
And keep clicking Jim, I love your experiments
Philippe
Le 2 avr. 13 à 22:49, Jim Nichols a écrit :
> Hi Philippe,
>
> A dollar's worth of gold would be too small to photograph. ;~)
>
> I think all of the $20 gold pieces disappeared during the hard times
> of the
> 1930s.
>
> I do have some uncirculated $2 bills with sequential serial numbers,
> and a
> few silver dollars.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: One More Image with the 1890 Ross Lens
>
>
>> Now you'll have to hunt for a dollar that's gold, and as old as the
>> lens ;-)
>>
>> Nice job you're doing, both of you Jim
>>
>> Amitiés
>> Philippe
>>
>> Le 2 avr. 13 à 22:31, Jim Nichols a écrit :
>>
>>> I was asked to show more images from the vintage Ross lens from
>>> 1890. Since I have no means of doing a landscape image, I decided
>>> to go to the other extreme, a closeup. Here is a photo, at about a
>>> four foot distance, of a souvenier coin from the 1975 New Orleans
>>> Mardi Gras. The coin is 1.5 inches in diameter. The exposure was
>>> made at f/32, and was slightly sharper than one made at f/16.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mardi+Gras+13.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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