Great, Jim! I recall a ton of trouble printing half-frames in a G.I.
darkroom.
hose 4X5 Besslers and Omegas didn't have tall enough frames.
(Didn't stop me from getting a Pen-FT stable years later)
Your G.I. chopper looks far grander than the ones I swung from.
I'm sure we weren't as close to those rocks as this looks!
Here's another peep out the Huey door...
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I figured there had to be someone else out there who had used one. I kept
> digging until I found some of the images I made with it while I was still
> shooting film. Here is a full negative closeup showing some details of a
> military helicopter I happened upon on the ramp one day. The little
> Universal Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens was very sharp.
>
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Full+Negative+Helicopter+Detail.jpg.html
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 7/2/2015 1:28 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
>> Cool, Jim! I took one of those over with me in 1951.
>> One of the locals was so impressed he offered me an old Leica
>> with a flop-down finder in trade. (That's how I got my first 'L')
>>
>> Wish I had kept the L. 😕
>>
>> In Chicago, I remember street photogs using Rollei's with the 35mm adapter
>> (Rolleikin?)
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who
>>> snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you copies
>>> of
>>> the image. Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury, introduced
>>> in
>>> 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame camera with a
>>> rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a 36-exposure roll
>>> of
>>> 35mm film. This was a very rugged camera with a cast aluminum body and
>>> an
>>> extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens, requiring manual scale focusing
>>> with no rangefinder. When properly focused, the image detail was
>>> equivalent to much more expensive cameras of that era.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
>>>
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>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
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