[Leica] family pictures and good cameras

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

didn't the flash bulb ruin the prints? :-)

-rei


> 
> On Jun 30, 2007, at 5:02 PM, 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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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey