Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've posted 20 "new" pictures--recently copied slides from my late mother's collection. These are pictures of my parents, my mother's family and their friends, c. 1950-53, before I came on the scene. Start here, and click on the left side of the picture for the "previous" 19 pictures. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/24864974880/in/dateposted-public/> My Mom got her camera in 1949. She shot one roll of Plus-X, then started using Kodachrome and never looked back. She shot a Bolsey B2 rangerfinder with a 44mm f/3.2 Wollensak Anastigmat lens and leaf shutter. I still have it. Remember that pre-1961, Kodachrome film was ASA 10. Except in bright sunlight, fairly slow exposure times had to be used. I had to go through lots of blurred slides to find a few reasonably sharp ones show here. I just got a Nikon ES-1 slide copier attachment for my camera. I connected it to my Olympus E-M5 via a couple of step-up rings, a 28/2.8 Olympus OM manual focus lens from the 80s, a rickety 13mm extension tube and a strip of masking tape to fasten the extension tube to the lens and neutralize said ricketiness. Theoretically, the 28mm OM lens shouldn't be good enough to act as a macro lens, but in practice, it appears to be. It doesn't quite resolve the film grain, but the pictures are quite good enough for screen viewing. And it's *so* much quicker and easier than using a film scanner. I may spring for a real micro 4/3 macro lens, or I may not. These look pretty darn good to me. Enjoy! --Peter