Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You did quite well, Peter. And your Mom did well with her portrait collection. I started shooting Kodachrome 10 with a Leica IIIa in 1952, and I scanned those with a slide scanner. Some of mine may be a little sharper, because I was using a coated 50 Elmar, but your colors are excellent. And I'm sure your system was much more consistent and predictable than my old scanner. The Bolsey was reported to be a nice little camera. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 2/21/2016 2:56 PM, Peter Klein wrote: > I've posted 20 "new" pictures--recently copied slides from my late > mother's collection. These are pictures of my parents, my mother's > family and their friends, c. 1950-53, before I came on the scene. > Start here, and click on the left side of the picture for the > "previous" 19 pictures. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/24864974880/in/dateposted-public/> > > > My Mom got her camera in 1949. She shot one roll of Plus-X, then > started using Kodachrome and never looked back. She shot a Bolsey B2 > rangerfinder with a 44mm f/3.2 Wollensak Anastigmat lens and leaf > shutter. I still have it. Remember that pre-1961, Kodachrome film > was ASA 10. Except in bright sunlight, fairly slow exposure times had > to be used. I had to go through lots of blurred slides to find a few > reasonably sharp ones show here. > > I just got a Nikon ES-1 slide copier attachment for my camera. I > connected it to my Olympus E-M5 via a couple of step-up rings, a > 28/2.8 Olympus OM manual focus lens from the 80s, a rickety 13mm > extension tube and a strip of masking tape to fasten the extension > tube to the lens and neutralize said ricketiness. Theoretically, the > 28mm OM lens shouldn't be good enough to act as a macro lens, but in > practice, it appears to be. It doesn't quite resolve the film grain, > but the pictures are quite good enough for screen viewing. And it's > *so* much quicker and easier than using a film scanner. I may spring > for a real micro 4/3 macro lens, or I may not. These look pretty darn > good to me. > > Enjoy! > --Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >