[Leica] family pictures and good cameras

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Nice photo, Brian. A very worthwhile project. I had to study the  
darkroom as well. I like their use of porcelain baking pans for  
trays. They are the best, much better then hard rubber. I still use  
mine which are now 40 years old.

Regards,
Len


On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:02 PM, 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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