PeterW
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Post by PeterW on Jun 23, 2006 6:07:51 GMT -5
Not sure whether this picture belongs here or in the Nostalgia section. It's a picture of me enjoying a morning's outing in an old Austin, made about 1906 if memory serves me. It's interesting photographically. It was taken in the late 1960s or early 1970s by Ivor Greening, one of British Motor Corporation's PR team and a keen photographer, using FP4 in a camera that was brought to England by his German-born wife. It was bought new by her father in 1929 and is a non-rangefinder Leica I with a non-detachable Elmar lens in a Compur shutter. It shows what an impact the 35mm Leica made in the late 1920s even though the film available then was much inferior to FP4 of the 1960s and 1970s. We developed the film in ID11 in Ivor's darkroom and he gave me some of the negatives. Peter W
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Post by Randy on Jun 23, 2006 6:15:08 GMT -5
That's neat Peter! If I squint my eyes I see John Steed in his Bentley.
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Post by kamera on Jun 23, 2006 13:07:50 GMT -5
Reminds me of some of the old cars you would see in the Laurel & Hardy silent movies.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by nikonbob on Jun 30, 2006 16:27:46 GMT -5
Peter
Nice photo and interesting story behind it. I have an old Elmar that is uncoated with no serial number from the 1930 but is RF coupled. I had it cleaned and am amazed at how well it performs today with modern films. Using vintage cameras to photgraph vintage cars seems like a natural thing to do.
Bob Hammond
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