Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Dzwig asked: Subject: Re: [Leica] "OK 68 you're in this." > Ted, > > I wondered about this while writing you my earlier email. Would the > archive let you reproduce your own photos for the purpose of your > autobiography? You would of course have to say that that is where the > photos are deposited and maybe do a deal with them, but it's a shame if > all those wonderful pictures were to end up in a vault forever.<<< Hi Peter, Yes I can use them but not very easily. The negs and slides are kept in environmentally controlled vaults.... that is if there's atmosphere at 40 f degrees below zero..:-) To gain access I'd have to make a request to use them, fly to Ottawa after they set the date when some of the material has been brought out of freezing and into the environment of the inner lab where I would have to work... again under completely controlled conditions. No negs nor slides would ever leave the room. Period!! Any material selected for consideration would be scanned by an approved scanner and handled by one of their technicians. We couldn't go through and select a pile of negs and slides...... it would be "one image at a time, scanned, printed and the original returned to it's individual file. Select the next! Yet this must be done as quickly as possible so the files can be returned to frozen condition as quickly as possible. And the complete collection of however many hundreds of thousands would not be de-frosted at the same time. When I asked about using the collection earlier they offered.... "Yes it was possible but very time consuming, why not move back to Ottawa as it would save a great deal of flying time?" Anyway the simple answer to your question is..... "Yes I do have access." ted > Peter > > Ted Grant wrote: > >> Richard asked: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] "OK 68 you're in this." >> >> >>> Any good pictures from the shoot? Then it would be all worth it right? >>> :-)<<< >> >> >> Hi Richard, >> Unfortunately no, as that material is in the National Photo Collection at >> the National Archives of Canada. Long gone in earlier deposits to the >> collection. >> >> ted >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information