On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting Paul Stenquist <[email protected]>: > >> 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 > > > It may have been the hard way but the result is classy - a happy group > (wonder what was happening to the right that caught the attention of the > youngest?) > > Some years ago I was given a Speed Graphic. I've never used it - not even > sure it works and I wouldn't know how to use it even if it does. It's a nice > display item, though. > > Thanks Brian. It may well have been my son distraction the young guy to the right. He was just about the same age I believe. You should shoot some film in the speed graphic. You just need a couple film holders and a box of 4 x 5 film. You can easily tell if the shutter and apertures work. I'm planning to take mine out again one of these days. Haven' used it in over twenty years, but the shutter sounds good. Best, Paul > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > 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.
