Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] family pictures and good cameras
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat Jun 30 17:46:22 2007

Brian,

That's great -- what a find.  People in 1952 seemed more sensible than later
-- aprons, tongs instead of dunking your hands and all that.  I recall
testing my safe lights each month to be sure there was no fogging, aligning
the negative carriers etc.  I'm surely glad digital came along while I can
still enjoy it, though good printing is still an adventure but as of yet
better than the darkroom.  Please post more.

Ken

  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian Reid
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:03 PM
> To: LUG@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] family pictures and good cameras
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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