@Ryan I'm sorry to hear about your sons accident. Hop it all works out. I am excited to hear that 2025 will be the year the 38 comes out of hiding. Wishing you the best......
B&W prints give some of the best contrast, and my trusty Pentax K1000 let me manually tailor them. DUI lawyers? UGGHHH!
What is the plan for the coupe, I do remember the front suspension needed to removed and replaced with a more traditional setup, what about the engine? will you stick with the 388 CI & the 4 speed transmission?, as I recall there use to be a 9" rear axle but from the recent photo it's missing, maybe a quickchange will replace the old 9" ? HRP
@HOTRODPRIMER i believe the front end has been switched to a solid axle and the engine is a blown y block. Don’t recall any of the rest of the details he’s shared over the years well enough to share. Gonna stay a brute just a different flavor I believe.
Legendary photographer, Ansel Adam's, back in the day, took the realm of black and white photography very seriously. He didn't cut corners when it came to having the very best equipment, and he didn't cut corners when it came to having a rock solid foundation platform to shoot from!
"sanctuary for neglected dreams" Just might have to steal this one for my version! BTW...Love your eye!!
Found this undeveloped roll of film in 2008. Had it processed, the negatives are all curly. Had some proofs made, my guess they were taken in 1937, looks like a paper drive….In the “can” for 71 years….. l
Hey @Irish Mike Those are great pieces of captured frozen moments of time indeed! The bi plane is a rare 1935 Grumman F3F fighter. The white convertible is a coffin nosed Cord.
Hello, Ever since I could actually take my own photographs, I have liked B/W prints. They give the viewer clarity and a great contrast. But, as little kids and even into the color 16mm movie taking days, our dad only had his large format Graflex Camera as his hobby. His own older brother came for a visit one day to our old Westside of Long Beach house and of all things, he had a Leica 35mm Camera cross-strapped to his chest. “LEICA, schemica…ETC.” It had a nice periscope if I recall correctly. But, it did look official. We weren’t impressed at the time, as we had no idea there were other cameras, except for our dad’s large format camera and the same ones we saw in the newspapers and on early TV. Later on, my brother asked our dad why we did not have a little 35mm camera. His answer was we get better negatives with the larger Graflex Camera. Nothing about size and ability to carry a lightweight camera anywhere without straining the back or arms… ha! But, as time moved on and we got more experience in the world of film cameras, my brother finally got a his first Asahi Pentax 35mm film camera and he was off to the world, taking photos of almost everything. It looked like my own first Pentax Camera, except that there was a stainless steel body, not black painted surfaces. He enjoyed taking a lot of photos and as long as he included our mom’s family photo choices, the film got developed and the prints were great in B/W. Some in color prints, too. Jnaki It wasn’t until just before he moved out of the house that he got his first Nikon 35mm film camera and as a younger brother, I got the hand-me-down stainless steel body Asahi Pentax Camera. Many years later, I got involved in photography and got my all black Asahi Pentax Camera set up and film developing materials. Al of these years of activity, it is still sitting in a nice drawer ready to be called to action at any time… We almost gave it to our granddaughter for a 35mm film camera when she needed one for a photography class. Luckily, I had purchased a new Canon A2 Automatic 35mm camera and accessories for my foray into surf photography and sailing photography. The camera, lenses, 300-600mm telephotos and film were all new and ready for some action. We bought the set up, but never used it as the digital age hit all of us like a brick and made things much easier. So, the "new" equipment got some use by our granddaughter. Note: "Wait a minute... Your Pentax Camera does not look like my Pentax Camera..." In the USA, the company, Honeywell had the rights to the Pentax name and called all cameras Honeywell Pentax brand in the publications and in camera shops across the USA. In the old days, traveling people from the USA with an Asahi Pentax camera were required to hand them over to customs to get a tax and change the prism top to Honeywell Pentax. So much for trademark brand name security. Yikes ! Everywhere else, the 35mm camera was labeled Asahi Pentax, the original camera company name. versus After years of film cameras and developing dark room techniques, the feeling of creating a B/W image in the darkroom is enlightening. Something blank becomes a photo in front of your eyes and now, it is up to you to save it. Enduring the “aroma” of the chemicals, the constant dipping in one tray and then another, pouring the final solution to stop the developing… all part of the processing game, working in a red light room. The digital age came and the only way to afford a Leica was in my first digital camera made by Panasonic. Using the Leica Lens Technology, it was the only way to use a Leica brand product. Ha! The Lumix ZS7 is/was the top of the line of the 'original' travel zoom range, from Panasonic. It is 14 years old, but in almost daily use for our current digital photography. Fast enough and enough MPs that the final print was amazing and the old camera still gets its daily/weekly use as an action camera and in car photo shoot camera. We bought a newer Sony Digital Camera with a more powerful telephoto lens and higher MP, for our granddaughter’s ballet performances and family photos, but I continue to use the old Leica Lens Camera for everything else. Quality never gets old…YRMV
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