Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, That's great -- what a find. People in 1952 seemed more sensible than later -- aprons, tongs instead of dunking your hands and all that. I recall testing my safe lights each month to be sure there was no fogging, aligning the negative carriers etc. I'm surely glad digital came along while I can still enjoy it, though good printing is still an adventure but as of yet better than the darkroom. Please post more. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug- > bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian Reid > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:03 PM > To: LUG@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] family pictures and good cameras > > 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