Thank you very much, Ted. I hope that the negatives are clear, bright, and
balanced for you when they get developed. :)
I have something that you had a hand in the creation of; but at the moment I’ve
misplaced it. I’ll post it when I find it.
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Jan 2, 2019, at 10:13 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Peter,
First camera given me by my wife as a first birthday gift after being
married, May 27, 1949 an "ARGUS A2" 35mm film camera.
And yes as it sits here on my computer desk it still has the last roll of
film in it. When I bought my first Leica I THINK IT WAS EARLY 1950'S?. It was
a rangefinder model and I don't have it nor remember what model it was. WHY?
Well because I was hired by the OTTAWA CITIZEN newspaper. Shortly after that
I went LEICA ( 3 OF THEM WITH DIFFERENT LENSES!" And I've never stopped
LEICAS since! Until my basic retirement as of this New years and I'm only 89
years old but still love being a photojournalist using today?
2 - M8's for "HAPPY SNAPPING" and writing my biography of a 65 year career
as a professional photojournalist & LEICA LECTURER. And having travelled the
wars of the world and all kinds of neat things.
So there you are my son!
Wishing you a wonderful NEW YEAR 2019! And lots of fantastic assignments
about the world!
CHEERS,
ted,
Dr.Ted Grant O.C.
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Subject: [LRflex] Re: An old lens with radioactive coating
Good morning Dr Ted. If you don’t mind me asking, what was the camera model
that Mrs Grant gave you back in 1951?
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Jan 2, 2019, at 2:27 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx
<mailto:tedgrant@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
LADIES&Gentlemen,
Planet EARTH is loaded with RADIO-ACTIVE MATERIALS AND WE ARE BEING RADIATED
AS I WRITE THIS AND WHEN YOU SIT THERE READING THE E-MAIL!
You don't believe it?????????????????????????
It varies about the planet wherever you maybe and is in various levels
depending where you are!
YOU DON'T BELEIVE ME?????????????????
Check with some of the governments studying the "PLANET EFFECTS!"
No you don't glow in the dark for effect !
But Planet Earth is radiating us every second we live here day to day! Have
you ever opened and developed a roll of unexposed film that has been in a
camera for about 10 years or more?????????? With no exposures! JUST THE FILM?
Oh you did load a camera, an old model and put it in a cabinet "and forgot
about it for ten years or more???
Oh I realize there aren't many of you who may have done that? But during my
past 65 years of shooting assignments professionally film, now digital almost
every day? I have! Yes, I'm 89 yrs. old, 90 this coming May 2019 And yes I
still knock off frames via digital LEICA M8's about the "Elderly Home folks"
where I now live where I may see something that works.
I have the first camera I ever owned that my wife gave me for my first
birthday after we were married 27 May 1951, Oh I put lots of rolls through
it way back then. However there is a roll in it since the early 1950's or so
and I've been temped on many occasions to develop it just for the hell of it!
HOWEVER?
THE TIME HAS COME and it shall be done in the next few days and the results
will be on the screen shortly! THEN WE=SHALL SEE???????????
CHEERS
DR. ted grant O.C.
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Aram,
Thanks. I don’t doubt that at all!
Bill
On Dec 30, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Everybody has some radioactive material in them.
