Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of my projects for 2007 has been to digitize all of my parents' old family photographs and make them accessible to relatives who aren't ever going to see and touch the physical albums that my mother has so carefully organized and classified. There are a lot of negatives; I try to spend 90 minutes each day working on them. I cannot tell you how grateful I am that my parents decided in 1951, shortly before my 2nd birthday, to buy a Rolleiflex (Automat 6x6 - Model K4/50) and learn how to use it properly. These thousands of negatives, pretty much all shot on Plus X, are very high quality and show what people really looked like. I did tell my mother of my gratitude, but I'm further expressing that gratitude by doing all of this digitizing. Here's a picture of my mother taken in December 1952, printing Rollei negatives in the Officer's club darkroom at Naval Ordnance Test Station in China Lake, California. http://gallery.reid.org/v/subject/betty/60_1952_003.JPG.html