I've realized two things tonight: You folks are a bad influence. Photographing bicycles is difficult.
I've had this bike, in various incarnations, since the summer of '79 when I pulled the frame out of a friend's basement. I could write a small book about all the things I've done with, and to, it.
The highlight was probably when I rode the Davis Double Century on it in May of '81, although the previous fall I did ride a metric double century on it, without a front derailleur, or for that matter any training since the DC the previous May. There have been several times that I have decided that it was no longer worth fixing the bike up, and that I should just buy a new bike. I only bought a new bike once, but I always seem to find some excuse to get her back on the road.
The frame is a Legnano. An Italian company that at one point went out of business sometime in the late sixties. It may have been since resurrected, but I'm fairly sure that the frame is somewhere between 40 and 50 years old. You may note a big, rusty, bolt at the intersection of the seat tube and the top tube. Legnano had a very clever, for Italian values of clever, method of tightening down the seat. I've never owned the proper clamp widget, so I kluged something up that more or less works.
I tried several lighting setups. I ended up with the WL10,000 studio strobe fairly high up, shooting through an umbrella. I tried various shots with my Sigma 20, FA31 and DFA50/2.8.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623085248314/ -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
