[pure-silver] Re: NO ONE ELSE? was NOSTALGIA LANE...
- From: "bobkiss @caribsurf.com" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:05:31 -0400
O.K., guys, are we tawkin' here? I think we're tawkin here! That's the
spirit!
Now the trick question: After all these decades, all this education, all
this experience, all the work we have produced, don't we still get a
pure, child-like pleasure out of making photos? I know that looking at
those old books of mine stimulates the remembered excitement of my "yute"
when making photos. Glad we are sharing this!
CHEERS,
BOB
On Monday, October 27, 2014, <andpph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Feininger was also my "book mentor" but I don't remember the title of the
> book. It was a large volume. White cover. I was particularly drawn to his
> explanation of a non rectilinear "reality" reproduced as rectilinear by our
> camera lenses. Hyzer also was an inspiration as well as Doc Edgerton. My
> earliest experiences with processing came about while in high school in a
> biology class where we were shown how to process under a red safelight
> using the see-saw method. I believe I relied on TriChem packs also. This
> was in Argentina in the mid 50s! No books until I arrived in the States.
> Before that follow the instructions on the instructions that came with the
> film and those that came with the TriChem packs. My first camera was a
> non-descript plastic TLR but I wanted a Leica so my second camera was a
> Coronet Cub 828 (looks like a Leica!) which I still have but whose lens I
> almost immediately replaced by an achromatic one purchased from Edmund
> Scientific. How I realized an achromat was better than the sample lens on
> the Coronet I don't remember. When I could not get 828 film I figured out I
> could use 35 mm film respooled into 828 spools reusing the 828 backing
> paper. Sadly I lost the finder and replaced with a non-original one. If you
> see one of these cameras available give me a "heads-up"!
>
> To see it follow this link:
> http://www.davidhazy.org/andpph/photofile-misc/coronet-cub-camera-0983.jpg
>
> Most of my early darkroom gear was "home made". Made my enlarger out of a
> roll film camera operating "backwards" with a juice can adapted to be a
> lamphouse. Built an leaning upright to hold the head. Won a science fair
> award for it! ;)
>
> I could go on ... but will stop here.
>
> cheers,
>
> Andy
>
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