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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2737470, member: 19463&quot;]There was a time I was proud of my 1.06g obol but now I feel fat shamed.&nbsp; It is almost as thick as it is across making it hard to photograph.&nbsp; The hemiobol seems to be of considerably different style/fabric but they made these over a long period and I have not studied the differences.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]624214[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Polaroid:</p><p>If you don&#039;t remember Polaroid you probably don&#039;t remember Ansel Adams either. Ansel Adams (died 1984) was the leading American landscape photographer and proponent of large format cut film cameras. I was a fan.&nbsp; Toward the end of his life he worked for Polaroid corporation shooting with a 20x24&quot; Polaroid camera.&nbsp; Some of us thought that was sacrilege but the results were excellent.&nbsp; My personal experience with Polaroid was limited to 4x5&quot; backs for view cameras which we used to make test shots on a set up before committing ourselves to a final exposure and lighting decision. Those were all trashed.&nbsp; There were people who thought they were art but I considered the process a tool.&nbsp; Ansel Adams came to the White House and shot Vice President Water Mondale using the camera.&nbsp; That went well so he came back to use it on President Carter.&nbsp; Since the photos were one of a kind we never got to see them but the link below shows that they were copied and dye transfer prints were made.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel-adams/president-james-e-carter-vice-president-walter-AZEfcsNDmkLFISg9KO1dcw2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel-adams/president-james-e-carter-vice-president-walter-AZEfcsNDmkLFISg9KO1dcw2" rel="nofollow">http://www.artnet.com/artists/ansel-adams/president-james-e-carter-vice-president-walter-AZEfcsNDmkLFISg9KO1dcw2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To return to numismatic material:&nbsp; Who else remembers when Frank Robinson would shoot amateur Polaroid snaps of coins from his sales for a dollar?&nbsp; His lists were unillustrated then but you could send him a list of lots you wanted to see and he would crowd as many and possible into a same size Polaroid and charge you for the film used.&nbsp; If you only got a few lots, he would combine them with other requests and you would get pieces that looked like a Jigsaw puzzle but that way you could get both sides for only $1.&nbsp; I did not save any of the ones I bought in those days but they did influence whether or not I bid on some coins in the late 80&#039;s and 90&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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