Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ric, Jay, Tina, Lluis: Thanks so much. Glad you are enjoying them. I am having a great time reviewing and scanning them. It's a lot of work, but it also evokes many memories. I was a little kid in the mid/late 1950s, and I can remember when things still looked a lot like these pictures. Photos evoke memories, both general memories of the time, and specific memories of the people and incidents. It's quite a ride. I'm going to have to put the old slides aside for a while now. I have to prepare for several musical things coming up. Plus my den renovations will be finished soon, so I'll have to reassemble the room with a different configuration. The next batch of slides will be from the early-mid 1950s, which includes yours truly as a wee lad. I'll be experimenting with some different ways of digitizing the slides. Comparing the camera/slide viewer method with VueScan and my FS-4000 at half or 1/4 rather than full resolution. I'm told that VueScan's IR dust removal now works on Kodachrome if you don't overdo it, which wasn't the case a few years ago. That could save spotting time. And on the camera and slide-viewer attachment front, I've ordered a couple of 52mm extension tubes to go between the lens and the slide viewer. That will enable me to use my 50/3.5 Olympus OM Macro lens. I suspect it won't give me any more resolution than the 28mm OM lens I'm now using, but it might vignette less and focus more easily. We'll see. --Peter On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:53 PM, lluisripollphotography < lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > Nice memories and nice job Peter! > Cheers > Lluis > > > El 28 febr 2016, a les 3:55, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> va > escriure: > > > > More from the "Motherlode," the boxes of Kodachrome slides taken by my > Mom between 1949 and the 1980s. In the summer of 1949, my Mom and her > friend Sue took a train excursion from NYC to the west coast, going through > New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mom did not > have a 35mm camera at the time--she took her father's old folding camera > with leather bellows. The people on the trip had various cameras, including > folders, a TLR and 35mm camera. They all exchanged photos, so I have > pictures from many people. I believe the 35mm "Kodachrome Duplicate" slides > were taken by a woman named Betty. I believe that these 35mm photos were > what inspired my mother to take up 35mm herself when she returned to New > York. She bought her Bolsey B2 shortly thereafter. > > > > There are 10 new photos of California in 1949 in this set. Start here: > > < > https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/24691520023/in/dateposted-public/ > > > > > > Be sure to see the last two, which show street scenes of San Francisco > and Chinatown. > > > > To pick and choose, here is the first page of my flickr feed: > > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/> > > > > Enjoy! > > --Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >