[Leica] family pictures and good cameras

[rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)]

Brian:

A nice Slice of Life from your (and many of our) past.

The thought of a Rollei 6x6 still makes me salivate.  Lovely machine, 
great negs.

Thanks for the peep into your history.

Bob



On Jun 30, 2007, at 17:02, 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



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