Nice images, Rick, but that is some unfriendly looking countryside. I
also entered the service in 1951 (USAF), but, fortunately for me, stayed
in Ohio. Several of my college friends were not so lucky.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/2/2015 2:29 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
I think your telling me my cut n' paste didn't work... Sorry, her's some
links:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/showphoto.php?photoid=198239
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/showphoto.php?photoid=195619
Ol fumble fingers..
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Link?
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/2/2015 2:06 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
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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