Post by: Telperion on April 12, 2006, 06:30:29 PM
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html
Post by: jefnvk on April 12, 2006, 06:56:52 PM
Post by: 280plus on April 13, 2006, 12:46:30 AM
Post by: El Tejon on April 13, 2006, 03:02:43 AM
Thanks for the link.
Post by: TarpleyG on April 13, 2006, 03:26:10 AM
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Dang, some of those are clearer and crisper than many pictures taken today.
A properly exposed slide takes on an almost 3D-like quality. Something film cannot do and something digital will likely not be able to duplicate either. I still think slides are the best way to go if you want a real picture. Down side is that slides are very unforgiving and you can screw up a shot a lot easier than with film. Up until the last couple of years, magazine photogs still used slides for everything. I think they are using digital now with the exception of magazines like Nat'l Geographic (could be wring there too).Greg
Post by: garyk/nm on April 13, 2006, 05:21:09 AM
The P-51 in flight is absolutely incredible!
Thank you for posting this.
Post by: K Frame on April 13, 2006, 06:40:35 AM
Post by: K Frame on April 13, 2006, 06:43:35 AM
I think that's an A-26, the Army Air Corp's early version of the Mustang with the Allison engine.
Post by: Werewolf on April 13, 2006, 07:35:13 AM
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Quote from: jefnvk
Dang, some of those are clearer and crisper than many pictures taken today.
A properly exposed slide takes on an almost 3D-like quality. Something film cannot do and something digital will likely not be able to duplicate either. I still think slides are the best way to go if you want a real picture. Down side is that slides are very unforgiving and you can screw up a shot a lot easier than with film. Up until the last couple of years, magazine photogs still used slides for everything. I think they are using digital now with the exception of magazines like Nat'l Geographic (could be wring there too).Greg
They're just positives instead of negatives. Not sure what you are trying to say here though I imagine you are trying to say that with a negative you can correct out some errors when making the paper print?
You can also fix some errors just by putting a bellows w/light attachment on your camera body and duplicating the slide with different exposures. I used to do this all the time. I used Kodachrome and Ectachrome and did everything in color. Then if I wanted B&W I'd just copy from the slide to whatever B&W I wanted (usually an ASA 100 or slower film for fine grain - partial to Fuji and Agfa films). Worked quite well since I rarely used paper larger than 8X11 and then just 11X14. You lose some resolution doing that but it's not really visible until you get up to the really, really large print sizes and they one must look very closely.
Post by: TarpleyG on April 13, 2006, 07:39:18 AM
Post by: crt360 on April 13, 2006, 01:12:53 PM
Post by: grampster on April 13, 2006, 02:11:30 PM
Post by: 280plus on April 13, 2006, 03:56:54 PM
Post by: Art Eatman on April 13, 2006, 04:13:56 PM
It hit me the other day: I'm one-third as old as the US. When my grandfather died at age 96 in 1981, he had gotten to half the age of the country.
Been a few changes along the way...
, Art
Post by: grampster on April 13, 2006, 06:14:45 PM
I was born in '43, but those pics sure reminded me of how it was growing up. Brought a smile to my face.
Post by: 280plus on April 13, 2006, 11:12:21 PM
Post by: TarpleyG on April 14, 2006, 12:38:16 AM
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Is there a B&W slide film available?
No.Greg
Post by: Art Eatman on April 14, 2006, 06:37:18 AM
And, of course, you've earned the right to tell nursing home jokes...Been going through old family photos. Got one picture of a bunch of great-uncles at a corral on the XIT ranch, back around 1900. Another of great-grand-parents and their ten kids, taken in 1890.
Old photos can make you remember how easy life is, today, compared to what it was for past generations. Folks today whine and complain because they don't know history of even 30 or 50 years ago, much less 100...
Art.
Post by: Larry Ashcraft on April 14, 2006, 07:47:24 AM
Quote from: El Tejon
They grew peaches in Colorado? Thought it would be too desolate. Learn new stuff everyday.
They still do, mostly on the western slope. Along with apples, plums, grapes and a bunch of other stuff.
Post by: Mabs2 on April 14, 2006, 09:09:44 AM
Post by: Kamicosmos on April 15, 2006, 12:32:27 AM
Post by: Dave Markowitz on April 15, 2006, 05:02:01 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin
I don't think that's a P-51 Mustang...
I think that's an A-26, the Army Air Corp's early version of the Mustang with the Allison engine.
It's a P-51A or an A-36 Apache.I think that's an A-26, the Army Air Corp's early version of the Mustang with the Allison engine.
The A-26 was the Invader twin-engined bomber.
Post by: Art Eatman on April 15, 2006, 08:22:07 AM
There was an A-20 built by Douglas, an attack bomber with twin engines and a single tail. I foprget the nickname.
There was the B-26 built by Martin, the "Marauder". It was used in Europe. The motto at McDill AACB at Tampa was "One a day in Tampa Bay". Laminar-flow wing, and high stall speed.
I've seen references to an "A-26" (with a picture of an A-20), but my memory doesn't recall it from my picture-book of warplanes that I pretty well memorized during WW II.
, Art
Post by: Art Eatman on April 15, 2006, 08:33:06 AM
The Navy had a different system of designation.
Everything changed after the USAAC became the USAF and the age of jets came into being.
FWIW, my step-father went into the Air Corps in early 1942. He went on to be a co-pilot on a B-24, flying out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. I had many picture-books of all the world's airplanes...
Post by: K Frame on April 15, 2006, 09:47:01 AM
What's really throwing me on the Mustang photo is the gun sponsons. Very atypical.
The A-20 was alternately known as the Boston or the Havoc.
The A-26 was the Douglas Invader.
Post by: K Frame on April 15, 2006, 09:51:24 AM
I forgot that the Apache had nose mounted guns, and while it's kind of difficult to tell, there doesn't appear to be a nose gun on the underside of the nose.
Post by: Fudgieghost on April 15, 2006, 11:07:55 AM
Post by: K Frame on April 15, 2006, 11:12:23 AM
Post by: Fudgieghost on April 15, 2006, 11:16:02 AM
Was the AT-6 called the Texan by us or the Brits? Did they also come up with "Dakota" for the C-47?
Post by: K Frame on April 15, 2006, 01:56:54 PM
The C-47 was known as the Skytrain in the United States, and was the Dakota to the British. The Dakota name apparently caught the imagination a little more.
Post by: Antibubba on April 15, 2006, 04:26:23 PM
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Is there a B&W slide film available?
280,There might be one still being made-there were one or two about ten years ago. One was in Zagreb, Croatia, but I don't know if they survived the Balkans' War(They were the last source of B&W 127). The other was Fuji or possibly Agfa. It would be a special order, and processing it would be quite a feat too.
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FOUND IT!! It's Agfa Scala. There are still sellers and processors for this in the US. I don't know what the future of the film will be, though; it seems Agfa in Germany is in the process of liquidation. contact me if you want more info
Post by: K Frame on April 15, 2006, 05:00:57 PM
One of the things I found in the basement as I was cleaning up was an old photo album (my Aunt put it down there, along with a LOT of other family photos, I told my Father to tell her that the next time I see her she's going to lose some teeth).
Many of the pictures in the album, of my Grandparents and Father and Aunt, were taken with a Baby Brownie Special using 127 film. I also found the Baby Brownies in the basement as I was cleaning up.