Ron (Netherlands)
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Just to share really beautiful kodachromes I found on the net, shot in the US and Puerto Rico during WWII era (they can be found at shorpy.com).
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more than 50 Y old, no copy righted materialGetting the dreaded red x for images!
... The clarity, sharpness, and tonal range of some of those old glass plates are phenomenal.
Actually I know it because I worked in a lab during my youth and spent 3 months making contact prints from a glass negative archive that belonged to Yale. As tedious as that job was, it was also incredible to handle those fragile slabs of glass and watch as magical images from the past materialized in the soup.And this you know because you saw the digital scan of the images online. You can run from digital, but you cannot hide from it.
Hi Lars,My dad went to India in 1954, brought his brand new Kodak Retina IIa (with the Schneider Xenar 50/2.0 lens) and some Kodachrome film. He passed the camera on to me some years ago, and I also got an opportunity to scan his slides - really remarkable images of people, architecture and landscape. I'll see if I can post some scans here later.
The camera is still working great although the shutter is a bit slow on most times. It's a kit with shade, b/w filters, ready case, closeup filters and closeup viewfinder, and the original Kodak manual in Swedish.