Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, Peter. I really enjoyed seeing these. In period photos like these, you expect to see the images in black and white. Bringing color through Kodachrome really makes these images come alive with a sense of touching the past that is truely amazing. Thanks for sharing. Robert Clark Lancaster, PA Peter Klein wrote: > As far as family pictures go, I just hit the motherlode. Or rather, I > scanned a load of pictures from my mother! Here is a liberal > selection of the the original Kodachrome slides from my parent's > wedding. Have a look here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/EmMiltWedding > > Apart from a little dust and a few scratches, they are not much the > worse for 54-odd years' wear. Kodachrome is just plain amazing. The > pictures were mass-scanned for family viewing and quickly > batch-resized with Irfanview, so they ain't fine art. But just the > hairstyles and clothing are fascinating. There are some more personal > shots at the beginning and end of the album, with the traditional > wedding stuff in the middle. > > The pictures might even be kinda sorta on-topic. A friend of my > mother's shot the wedding. She was going to use her Exakta, but it > broke that morning. So the entire wedding was shot with my Mom's > trusty Bolsey B-2 rangefinder, a favorite "alternate shooter" of our > own Karen Nakamura. > > The film was the original Kodachrome, ASA 10 (!), and a big reflector > flash that was bigger than the camera and blinded each subject for > several minutes after each shot. Probably the lens was nearly > wide-open much of the time, and the shutter at 1/25 or 1/50. You can > see the flash fall-off, motion blur and the lens' less than stellar > performance at the edges. And so what? > > Don't let the women's dresses fool you--I don't come from a wealthy > family. My "poppy" (maternal grandfather) was a patternmaker in the > New York garment district. He dressed his daughters in rejected > dresses and leftover fabrics meant for society girls. He designed and > built my Mom's wedding dress himself. > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >