Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] Family Kodachromes, 1956-57
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:54:13 +0000
References: <add42eab-45ae-c98b-76b3-25875c7f2f86@gmail.com>

Great collection, Peter, and the icicle is just enormous. Thank god for 
the gulf stream warming Ireland as we're as far north as Labrador here 
at 53 degrees north.
Douglas


On 16/01/2021 08:15, Peter Klein via LUG wrote:
> I've returned to my project to digitize my late mother's photos. She 
> shot mostly Kodachrome in a Bolsey B2 rangefinder starting in 1949, 
> and chronicled our extended family for several decades. Here's a dozen 
> from 1956-57. Life in the 50s, when Eisenhower was President, what was 
> good for General Motors was purportedly good for America, hardly 
> anyone rocked the boat, and I was a cute little toddler.
>
> Start here: 
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/50840629087/in/dateposted-public/>
> When you see a couple of wine glasses and candles toasting 2021, 
> you've seen them all.
>
> Enjoy. Click photos to enlarge. More to come. Photos digitized using 
> an Olympus E-M1, a Nikon ES-1 Slide copying adapter, a couple of 
> extension tubes and a single-coated OM Zuiko 50/3.5 Macro that I got 
> on eBay for about $30.
>
> --Peter
>
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In reply to: Message from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Family Kodachromes, 1956-57)