Leica LTM Holiday snaps......with old screw mounts

[FrankS]

I'll be developing a roll later tonight, taken almost entirely of my father, in his apartment, as he told us stories from his youth (he's 85). I used my old Leica with a 50 Nokton, TriX at 1600. I have no other gear that could have done this without disturbing him with either noise (SLR) or light (flash), and once focused, I just took pictures as the spirit moved me. Cool camera.

I sure hope they came out..

Please post some when available!

 

[VictorM.]

Taste? Nope. Composition? Huh? Leica IIIf, Serenar 28/3.5.

 

[aad]

Just for you, Frank... thanks for asking.

I just scanned these in, I haven't cropped or anything else. I don't post a lot, as my favorite pictures tend to be personal, or non-rangefinder. But as I noted above, I think the old camera was the best for these pictures of my father.

Among the stories (and I took 36 exposures) are of his grandfather building a log cabin west of Calgary after WW1 (each returning veteran got 160 acres) which was still standing as of 10 years ago. Sounds like a trip soon..

Also a tale of delivering ice in Toronto in the late '40s to an apparently lonely and healthy housewife. No morals were harmed in the telling.