On Mar 5, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Very cool, Paul!
Thanks Bruce. > > So your flood had a silver (nitrate) lining? Well, I guess that's one way of looking at it. I've organized the negs and prints that were stored down there. Almost all were out of reach of the water. I lost dozens of large optical B/W prints. However, I don't know what I wold have done with them, other than continue to store them. And I already have hundreds, many hundreds, in storage. Lost some negs, but they were color snapshots of little value. All my valued negs were high and dry. The main thing I lost was the money it took to resolve the situation, but the basement is going to be nice. We've had a substantial amount of rain and snow, and the ground outside is soaked, but the basement is bone dry. We're painting now. New carpeting next week. > > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> A curiosity for a slow Sunday. Click to make smaller. >> Shot this with my Speed Graphic and Wollensak 127/4.5 Raptor about 35 years >> ago. It was one of the few times I was successful shooting drag cars in >> action with that camera. I also got my jerry-rigged Honeywell potato masher >> strobe to fire here, as evidenced by the illuminated wheelwell. Film was >> Ektachrome 64 4x5. Stop was probably f8. DOF is just barely adequate, as the >> nose and tail of the car are a bit soft. Of course, that could also be a >> result of the panning. Out of focus background elements have halos. That may >> be a result of the wackiness of the lens. The transparency is very dirty. >> Found it in the basement while trying to deal with my flood problem. I >> should try washing it now that I've at least scanned it. The 16-bit scan >> that I generated on my old Epson flatbed was over a gigabyte. I cropped it >> to about 770 meg. The pic shown here is the largest that photo.net allows. I >> was an ambitious young man, who lacked common sense:-). >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15291993&size=lg > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- 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.
