Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Older yet photos
From: "John Evensta" <jevensta@plateautel.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:27:43 -0700
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBEEENDEAA.phong@doan-ltd.com>

Phong wrote:
> How old are the photos ?
> The colors look great for photos that look
> easily 40 years old.

They are from sometime in the late fourties - Kodachrome holds up well and
it was before Kodachrome II (1961?), so a slightly different formulation.

John

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From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Older yet photos


> Hello John,
>
> How old are the photos ?
> The colors look great for photos that look
> easily 40 years old.  I wish I have photos
> of my mother and father from that time.
> I often feel a certain poignancy looking at
> old photos.
>
> - Phong
>
>
> John Evensta wrote:
> >
> > The recent posts of older photos and talk of "hunks of lead"
> > reminded me of
> > some photos by my mother and father, respectively (using a 50/3.5
Elmar):
> >
> > http://www.leica-gallery.net/je/image-57399.html
> > http://www.leica-gallery.net/je/image-57400.html
> >
> > (carefree days before I was even a thought)
> >
> > John Evensta
>
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