Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for looking and? commenting, Nathan. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 1/18/2019 11:30 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > The way those old photographs hold up is impressive. I have photographs > from the 1920s and 1930s, inherited from my father, which have held up > similarly well. On the other hand, the ones from the 1950s and 1960s have > faded badly, probably reflecting the work ethic in post-war Communist > Poland. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 13 Jan 2019, at 00:18, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: >> >> Recent discussions of older photos led me to dig into some images I >> scanned quite a few years ago, from a collection of negatives and prints >> we inherited from my wife's grandmother. This sepia image is from the >> middle to late 1930s, when my wife's Dad provided a meager income for his >> family by following the Midwest fairs and celebrations with his portable >> studio, selling "4 for a Dime" direct positive portraits to the fair >> visitors. The studio could be folded and carried on the trailer seen in >> the background. Herb is posing holding on to the awning frame that could >> be covered in bad weather. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20090417-Herb+with+Portable+Studio.JPG.html >> >> Here is an actual-size copy of one of the seventy-year-old >> Direct-Positive photos, which received no Photoshop treatment at all. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gene+01.jpg.html >> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> -- >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus >> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ >> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >