[Leica] IMG: Family Kodachromes, 1950-53

[Jim Nichols]

You did quite well, Peter.  And your Mom did well with her portrait 
collection.

I started shooting Kodachrome 10 with a Leica IIIa in 1952, and I 
scanned those with a slide scanner.  Some of mine may be a little 
sharper, because I was using a coated 50 Elmar, but your colors are 
excellent.  And I'm sure your system was much more consistent and 
predictable than my old scanner.

The Bolsey was reported to be a nice little camera.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 2/21/2016 2:56 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> 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.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/24864974880/in/dateposted-public/> 
>
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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
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