Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Browsing through some family stuff during the holidays I came across some interesting photographs. Thought I'd post two prints. #1 My greatgrandfather and my uncles. Photograph taken in Albert Lea, MN in 1905. Brings home the value of archival processing, does it not? The print appeared to be a 4X5 contact. I never met these characters as I wasn't born until '54. Hard to imagine this image was made a decade prior to WWI. They probably had a hunch this would show up in cyberspace. http://spokes.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$59 #2 A photograph from Egypt in 1917. http://spokes.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$58 Also, a recent Leica photograph http://spokes.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$60 I couldn't come close to duplicating darkroom results with digital using the Leica neg. I tried quadtones on a very expensive inkjet paper. But nothing compared to the MGIV print in terms of depth. Some negs favor the darkroom. Others digital, I think. Dave BTW, sorry my site is cumbersome to navigate. I'm working on it. It's just for fun.