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Subject: [Leica] It's 1951, and my parents got married
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Apr 5 12:45:14 2005
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050404223844.00bd6a10@mail.2alpha.com> <p06200710be788fae786e@[131.142.12.152]>

 > It's a dog of a job,

This is the part which keeps me from beginning such a project.

Jim


Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> Peter - Your posting encourages me to keep going with my own project to 
> organize and scan in all my old negatives (as contact sheets) and slides 
> (as full resolution scans).  It's a dog of a job, but the recovery or 
> memories and making the photos available for sharing makes it well worth 
> the effort.  Mine go back to about 1950.
> 
> Like you, I have many from an aunt and uncle who were the primary family 
> photographers.  Coincidentally, they also used a Bolsey B-2 and 
> Kodachrome and the slides look brand new except for the old-style mounts.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
>> As far as family pictures go, I just hit the motherlode.  Or rather, I 
>> scanned a load of pictures from my mother!  Here is a liberal 
>> selection of the the original Kodachrome slides from my parent's 
>> wedding.  Have a look here:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/EmMiltWedding
>>
> 
> (snip)


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