[Leica] IMG: Family Kodachromes, 1950-53

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Like the images, Peter. Ahhh, Kodachrome....
Douglas
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From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>; <olympus at thomasclausen.net>; 
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Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 8:56 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Family Kodachromes, 1950-53


> I've posted 20 "new" pictures--recently copied slides from my late 
> mother's collection.  These are pictures of my parents, my mother's family 
> and their friends, c. 1950-53, before I came on the scene. Start here, and 
> click on the left side of the picture for the "previous" 19 pictures.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/24864974880/in/dateposted-public/>
>
> My Mom got her camera in 1949. She shot one roll of Plus-X, then started 
> using Kodachrome and never looked back.  She shot a Bolsey B2 rangerfinder 
> with a 44mm f/3.2 Wollensak Anastigmat lens and leaf shutter.  I still 
> have it.  Remember that pre-1961, Kodachrome film was ASA 10.  Except in 
> bright sunlight, fairly slow exposure times had to be used.  I had to go 
> through lots of blurred slides to find a few reasonably sharp ones show 
> here.
>
> I just got a Nikon ES-1 slide copier attachment for my camera.  I 
> connected it to my Olympus E-M5 via a couple of step-up rings, a 28/2.8 
> Olympus OM manual focus lens from the 80s, a rickety 13mm extension tube 
> and a strip of masking tape to fasten the extension tube to the lens and 
> neutralize said ricketiness.  Theoretically, the 28mm OM lens shouldn't be 
> good enough to act as a macro lens, but in practice, it appears to be. It 
> doesn't quite resolve the film grain, but the pictures are quite good 
> enough for screen viewing. And it's *so* much quicker and easier than 
> using a film scanner.  I may spring for a real micro 4/3 macro lens, or I 
> may not.  These look pretty darn good to me.
>
> Enjoy!
> --Peter
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