Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Brian, Great stuff, I like to print my negatives of 10 years ago. Let alone yours of 1952! BTW: is that you one the print your mother just printed? Cheers, Michiel Fokkema Brian Reid wrote: > One of my projects for 2007 has been to digitize all of my parents' old > family photographs and make them accessible to relatives who aren't ever > going to see and touch the physical albums that my mother has so > carefully organized and classified. There are a lot of negatives; I try > to spend 90 minutes each day working on them. > > I cannot tell you how grateful I am that my parents decided in 1951, > shortly before my 2nd birthday, to buy a Rolleiflex (Automat 6x6 - Model > K4/50) and learn how to use it properly. These thousands of negatives, > pretty much all shot on Plus X, are very high quality and show what > people really looked like. > > I did tell my mother of my gratitude, but I'm further expressing that > gratitude by doing all of this digitizing. Here's a picture of my mother > taken in December 1952, printing Rollei negatives in the Officer's club > darkroom at Naval Ordnance Test Station in China Lake, California. > > http://gallery.reid.org/v/subject/betty/60_1952_003.JPG.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >