Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was about 7 or 8 (before the Nazis annexed Austria) I used to watch my father make contact prints (probably 4.5x6 or 6x9cm) from glass negatives developed by the neighborhood druggist (pharmacy). My father used a wooden frame with a glass front and a hinged back, held in place by spring clamps, with green felt backing. He would put the negative into the frame against the glass, then a piece of paper, close the back, secure the clamps, and place the frame (negative up) on a table where the sun shone. After some time he would remove the paper and fix the print. I guess that was developing-out paper; the finished print had a reddish-brown cast. I think my father's camera was a folder that used glass negatives; I don't remember how they were packed and loaded. I was soon allowed to help with the printing and occasionally use his camera; and soon thereafter I received Agfa's equivalent of a Box Brownie as a birthday present. Ever since, except for some difficult times during the Nazi era, I was hardly ever without a camera. Oliver Bryk - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html