Paul, Made me smile... Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Way back in 1975 a teacher at the Chicago high school where I taught English > asked if I would take a BW pic of her and her kids. Like many young > photographers, I had a penchant for doing things the hard way, so I decided > to shoot them with my Speed Graphic and 127 mm Raptor 4.5. I had jerry rigged > a cord so I could attach a Honeywell potato masher strobe. So I did that and > mounted the strobe on an umbrella that I had painted white. I had to tray > process the film. (Couldn't take it to a lab. That would be too easy.) > > I'm not sure if the lady specified that she didn't want to look at the > camera, but neither she nor her children are looking at the camera. The pic > was for a newspaper column she wrote. Maybe they just thought they should > look at the flash. > > I scanned it today on the V500. Just for grins. There's no 4 x 5 film holder > for that scanner, so I just placed the neg on the scanner in the approximate > position of the overhead light. The scanning area is less than 4 inches wide, > but I needed to crop it a bit anyway. At 3200 dpi, the scan is 1.2 gigs. I > may print it. Just for grins. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17035692 > -- > 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.
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