[Leica] family pictures and good cameras

[jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net (Jack Maddox)]

Brian,
The older I get the more old photos seem to mean to me. I would give my 
right arm to have more than the few photos I have of my family from the 
50's. The Rolli negative comes across clear and sharp on your scan. 
thanks for showing.
Jack

Brian Reid wrote:
> 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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