[PRCo] Re: Live Overhead - New APTA photo contest

[Deltrains]

116 Devotees
Google "Film for Classics" and follow the links it produces.  You will find your 116 size fillum.  I have no idea how much it will cost.  I have no desire to find out.  It would probably cause heart failure just to know, even though I have no need to buy any.

The fot of Simmons Loop which I sent to some of you directly and tried to send (unsuccessfully, of course) on Derrick's list was taken on 116 Kodacolor in a camera which my mother gave to me, a folding Kodak which must have dated back to the 20s.  It was so used that it eventually developed light leaks so badly that I got tired of taping it up every time I changed rolls, and moved on to a camera with a faster and sharper lens and faster shutter, but still a folding camera--a Zeiss Ikonta.  I still have a Super Ikonta C (the one with which one can take either 6x9 or 4.5x6 mm images) but have not used it in over ten years.  It still made beautiful negatives the last time I used it, which as I recall was in Torino and Milano.

Come to think of it, my first 35mm camera was a folding camera as well--a Retina I.

And it had, Fred, a Schneider lens.

Dwight
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: billvigrass at verizon.net 
  Cc: bvolkmer at bellsouth.net ; saraed64 at msn.com ; tracksofnyc at gmail.com ; afishel at interurbans.com ; ajoshi43 at msn.com ; ge13031 at yahoo.com ; deltrains at verizon.net ; jack.may at americomm.net ; wckinney at snet.net 
  Sent: Monday, 04 October, 2010 16:27
  Subject: Re: Live Overhead - New APTA photo contest


  Sorry 'bout that.


  You can rewind 120 fillum onto 620 spools if you have them (if you process your own fillum and keep the spools).


  As for 116 and 616 ... Kodak has not cut and wound that size in years.  Sell the camera to someone who wants it for a display.   Same with the postcard sizes 118, 120, 122.




  On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:22 PM, billvigrass at verizon.net wrote:


    WDV et al,   I don't got a 620 size electronical camera.  You know where I can get one?

    I do have a 120 Zeiss Ikon, but it is all manual.  no electronicals.

    Also I still got my old original 616 Kodak f4.5 Anastigmat, don't got no fillums though.  

    what'll I do?

    Bill Vigrass, traditionalist.


    Oct 2, 2010 02:07:19 PM, bvolkmer at bellsouth.net wrote:

      >ED:
            Here is your golden opportunity at photographic notoriety. The 
            >annual transit photo contest put on by APTA.
            Notice in the fine print that they will only accept 3/4 angle roster shots in 620 
            >black and white, just to level the playing field. No digital photos will be accepted. You MUST have obtained 
            >written permission in triplicate BEFORE you took the photo, lest you be disqualifieded.

            >
            2010 APTA 
            >PHOTO INVITATIONAL


            Announcing the 2010 APTA Photo Invitational. The 
            >Invitational seeks photos from APTA members that depict public transportation’s 
            >significance, value, and benefits of opportunity, access, freedom, and mobility, 
            >which enable everyone in the community to accomplish what is important to them, 
            >while making communities stronger and more vibrant.

            New this year: All entries will be received electronically. 
            >For complete information, visit the 
            >rel=nofollow target="_blank">APTA Photo Invitational web site. The deadline to submit entries is October 20, 2010





            So Ed, you only have 18 more days to shoot. Allowing 
            >five days for developing and printing of your 620 black and whites, that means you 
            >only have 13 days to shoot. Allowing three days for US Snail mail to deliver, 
            >that means you only have 10 days to shoot.



            Since they obviously prefer streetcars to buses, 
            >you'd better Amtrak it over to Tampa and get shooting. POST HASTE.



            GOOD LUCK.



            And remember to be back in time to vote on November 
            >2nd!!!!!





            WDV