TRSmith
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Stashed away in the vacant apartment in my barn are 40 or 50 boxes of old prints, slides, and negatives from the 1970s to early 80s. I haven't looked at them for years and don't intend to. But I did stumble on one 5x7 box of proof prints that managed to end up in the attic somehow.
The prints are from a roll I shot with a Leica R5 (6?) while I was working as a printer in the photo department of a teaching hospital. The gear locker was stuffed with lots of shiny things and we could borrow them for our personal use. I worked making prints all day and when things were slow, I'd make quick and dirty 5x7 "proofs" of each frame rather than make contact sheets. Just slide the film through the slotted carrier on the focomat IIc and bang off an exposure for a handful of frames.
I can remember very clearly the overcast day I wandered around my neighborhood in the south end of Hartford, CT with the Leica SLR. I had never used the camera before and remember how odd it felt in my hands compared to the more familiar Nikon.
These are nothing special and the scans are made with a $150 refurbished Epson scanner I use for line art. But it's amazing what looking at them dredges up.
Tim
The prints are from a roll I shot with a Leica R5 (6?) while I was working as a printer in the photo department of a teaching hospital. The gear locker was stuffed with lots of shiny things and we could borrow them for our personal use. I worked making prints all day and when things were slow, I'd make quick and dirty 5x7 "proofs" of each frame rather than make contact sheets. Just slide the film through the slotted carrier on the focomat IIc and bang off an exposure for a handful of frames.
I can remember very clearly the overcast day I wandered around my neighborhood in the south end of Hartford, CT with the Leica SLR. I had never used the camera before and remember how odd it felt in my hands compared to the more familiar Nikon.
These are nothing special and the scans are made with a $150 refurbished Epson scanner I use for line art. But it's amazing what looking at them dredges up.
Tim
