This Knol is the translation by Astrid ROSART of :
Retirement enables one to undertake what, during the entire working life, was deferred because of lack of available time. It's classic and most of the time very enjoyable. One can judge from what follows.
On the occasion of a storage operation in September 2005, I came across this camera, still in its place. A cursory examination revealed to me that it contained an unrewound film. So I began to rewind it and entrusted the object, device charged, to a photography laboratory.
It is well I did so, because the object was handled by a professional, the extracted film was developed with all the necessary precautions and the pictures it contained were printed on paper.
The result, here it is, three photographs depicting a deer with « fourteen young horns », including this one:
FIFI (Picture : Eugène Rosart, winter 1949/1950)
Technical Information:
Camera:
- Brand : French Manufacture of Arms and Cycles of Saint Etienne, the LUMINOR model with bellows, format: 6x9, optical Anastigmat Luminor 1:4,5 F = 105m/m.
Film:
-Light Film LUMIPAN black and white 6X9, 8 poses.
Laboratory:
- MILLE Lab, 4, Rue de la Pompe in Schiltigheim 67300.
Subject:
- Young deer named FIFI, orphan raised with a nursing bottle by my mother Leone Thomas when we lived in Ketzing, Gondrexange city in Moselle. This deer, well fed, in this photo is only 3 or 4 years old although it already has 14 horns. So the photo was taken in 1949 or 1950 at the latest.
Epilogue:
- The argentic film remained 55 years in the camera before being developed. The quality of the print is reasonably good.
To whom attribute this performance? To the photographer, to the camera, to the film, to the development laboratory, to storage conditions, to the process used ?
