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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Mercury II
From: Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:29:17 -0400
I think your telling me my cut n' paste didn't work... Sorry, her's some
links:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/showphoto.php?photoid=198239

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/showphoto.php?photoid=195619

Ol fumble fingers..


On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Link?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 7/2/2015 2:06 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
>> Great, Jim! I recall a ton of trouble printing half-frames in a G.I.
>> darkroom.
>> hose 4X5 Besslers and Omegas didn't have tall enough frames.
>> (Didn't stop me from getting a Pen-FT stable years later)
>>
>> Your G.I. chopper looks far grander than the ones I swung from.
>> I'm sure we weren't as close to those rocks as this looks!
>>
>> Here's another peep out the Huey door...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Rick,
>>>
>>> I figured there had to be someone else out there who had used one. I kept
>>> digging until I found some of the images I made with it while I was still
>>> shooting film.  Here is a full negative closeup showing some details of a
>>> military helicopter I happened upon on the ramp one day.  The little
>>> Universal Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens was very sharp.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Full+Negative+Helicopter+Detail.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 7/2/2015 1:28 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>>
>>>  Cool, Jim! I took one of those over with me in 1951.
>>>> One of the locals was so impressed he offered me an old Leica
>>>> with a flop-down finder in trade. (That's how I got my first 'L')
>>>>
>>>>    Wish I had kept the L. 😕
>>>>
>>>> In Chicago, I remember street photogs using Rollei's with the 35mm
>>>> adapter
>>>> (Rolleikin?)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Some of you might be able to recall, as I do, street photographers who
>>>>
>>>>> snapped your photo on city sidewalks and then offered to sell you
>>>>> copies
>>>>> of
>>>>> the image.  Their favorite camera was the Universal Mercury, introduced
>>>>> in
>>>>> 1938, or the Mercury II, introduced in 1945. A half-frame camera with a
>>>>> rotary cinema-type shutter, it produced 72 images on a 36-exposure roll
>>>>> of
>>>>> 35mm film.  This was a very rugged camera with a cast aluminum body and
>>>>> an
>>>>> extremely sharp Tricor 35mm f/2.7 lens, requiring manual scale focusing
>>>>> with no rangefinder.  When properly focused, the image detail was
>>>>> equivalent to much more expensive cameras of that era.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mercury+II+from+1945.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments welcomed, and appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>
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