[Leica] It's 1951, and my parents got married

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

And what a beautiful flashlight!


> From: Joseph Low <joelct@singnet.com.sg>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:32:59 +0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] It's 1951, and my parents got married
> 
>             Dear Peter
> 
>             What sweet nostalgy!
> 
>             Joseph L / Singapore
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of 
> Peter
> Klein
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:02 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] It's 1951, and my parents got married
> 
> As far as family pictures go, I just hit the motherlode.  Or rather, I
> scanned a load of pictures from my mother!  Here is a liberal selection of
> the the original Kodachrome slides from my parent's wedding.  Have a look
> here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/EmMiltWedding
> 
> Apart from a little dust and a few scratches, they are not much the worse
> for 54-odd years' wear.  Kodachrome is just plain amazing.  The pictures
> were mass-scanned for family viewing and quickly batch-resized with
> Irfanview, so they ain't fine art.  But just the hairstyles and clothing
> are fascinating.  There are some more personal shots at the beginning and
> end of the album, with the traditional wedding stuff in the middle.
> 
> The pictures might even be kinda sorta on-topic.  A friend of my mother's
> shot the wedding.  She was going to use her Exakta, but it broke that
> morning.  So the entire wedding was shot with my Mom's trusty Bolsey B-2
> rangefinder, a favorite "alternate shooter" of our own Karen Nakamura.
> 
> The film was the original Kodachrome, ASA 10 (!),  and a big reflector
> flash that was bigger than the camera and blinded each subject for several
> minutes after each shot.  Probably the lens was nearly wide-open much of
> the time, and the shutter at 1/25 or 1/50.  You can see the flash fall-off,
> motion blur and the lens' less than stellar performance at the edges.  And
> so what?
> 
> Don't let the women's dresses fool you--I don't come from a wealthy
> family.  My "poppy" (maternal grandfather) was a patternmaker in the New
> York garment district.  He dressed his daughters in rejected dresses and
> leftover fabrics meant for society girls.  He designed and built my Mom's
> wedding dress himself.
> 
> --Peter
> 
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