[Leica] IMG: California, 1949

[Peter Klein]

Ric, Jay, Tina, Lluis: Thanks so much. Glad you are enjoying them. I am
having a great time reviewing and scanning them. It's a lot of work, but it
also evokes many memories. I was a little kid in the mid/late 1950s, and I
can remember when things still looked a lot like these pictures.  Photos
evoke memories, both general memories of the time, and specific memories of
the people and incidents. It's quite a ride.

I'm going to have to put the old slides aside for a while now. I have to
prepare for several musical things coming up. Plus my den renovations will
be finished soon, so I'll have to reassemble the room with a different
configuration. The next batch of slides will be from the early-mid 1950s,
which includes yours truly as a wee lad.

I'll be experimenting with some different ways of digitizing the slides.
Comparing the camera/slide viewer method with VueScan and my FS-4000 at
half or 1/4 rather than full resolution.  I'm told that VueScan's IR dust
removal now works on Kodachrome if you don't overdo it, which wasn't the
case a few years ago.  That could save spotting time.  And on the camera
and slide-viewer attachment front, I've ordered a couple of 52mm extension
tubes to go between the lens and the slide viewer. That will enable me to
use my 50/3.5 Olympus OM Macro lens. I suspect it won't give me any more
resolution than the 28mm OM lens I'm now using, but it might vignette less
and focus more easily.  We'll see.

--Peter

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:53 PM, lluisripollphotography <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice memories and nice job Peter!
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
> > El 28 febr 2016, a les 3:55, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> va
> escriure:
> >
> > More from the "Motherlode," the boxes of Kodachrome slides taken by my
> Mom between 1949 and the 1980s.  In the summer of 1949, my Mom and her
> friend Sue took a train excursion from NYC to the west coast, going through
> New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Mom did not
> have a 35mm camera at the time--she took her father's old folding camera
> with leather bellows. The people on the trip had various cameras, including
> folders, a TLR and 35mm camera.  They all exchanged photos, so I have
> pictures from many people. I believe the 35mm "Kodachrome Duplicate" slides
> were taken by a woman named Betty.  I believe that these 35mm photos were
> what inspired my mother to take up 35mm herself when she returned to New
> York. She bought her Bolsey B2 shortly thereafter.
> >
> > There are 10 new photos of California in 1949 in this set.  Start here:
> > <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/24691520023/in/dateposted-public/
> >
> >
> > Be sure to see the last two, which show street scenes of San Francisco
> and Chinatown.
> >
> > To pick and choose, here is the first page of my flickr feed:
> > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/>
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > --Peter
> >
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