Frame No. 37

Cab Driver waiting for a new fare taken with a Nikkormat Ftn/Nikkor 50 1.4 on the very very last frame of a roll of Tri-X, developed in Blazinal(Rodinal)

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On a cold January day in 1986 about 100 press photographers, each with a 600mm lens, gathered at Kennedy Space Flight Center for a routine photo shoot of a shuttle launch. When the launch vehicle got too high for a meaningful photo about 98 of them lowered their cameras and held down the shutter so that the motor drive would blast through the rest of the roll and automatically rewind.

When the space shuttle Challenger exploded only two photographers still had unexposed film in their cameras. One of them was a friend, Michael Brown of the Florida Today newspaper (prototype of USA Today) He had been taught to always save a few frames at the end of the roll "just in case". His photo ran on the front page of about half the daily newspapers in the free world the next day.

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So I still almost never shoot those last few frames on a roll. Never had a photo anywhere near his in significance though.
 
One last shot, taken too quickly, with focus at the hyperfocal setting of f8 from the previous frame, at almost the right moment, but not quite. Still, it catches a bit of the fun the dog was having chasing snowballs if a bit blurry.

Leica M4-2/CV 28 Ultron, Rollei Retro 80s

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