[Leica] IMG: Family Kodachromes, 1950-53

[Peter Klein]

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.
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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