5:00 PM
It's a light machine
I've recently begun quick-and-dirty scanning of black & white MF shot by my uncle or with his cameras in the late 40s through the mid 60s. Most of the pictures were taken in and around Menlo Park, California - but there are a few exceptions. They are in no particular order and the captions are mostly just note taking at this point; I'm less than halfway through the project.
Technical quality of the negatives is...quaint. Cheap cameras and very slow film mean few of the images are sharp; anybody with even moderate viewing experience should be able to pick out the two frames shot with a good TLR and decent light, no sweat. Later work by my uncle using a Retina 35 with Tri-X is vastly better technically, but this primitive MF stuff has a certain other worldliness that is very intriguing to me.
Any and all comments...or even better, visceral reactions, are most welcome.
Also: if anybody can verify that frame #45 is Cold War Berlin, please do.
http://tinyurl.com/avgb3b
Technical quality of the negatives is...quaint. Cheap cameras and very slow film mean few of the images are sharp; anybody with even moderate viewing experience should be able to pick out the two frames shot with a good TLR and decent light, no sweat. Later work by my uncle using a Retina 35 with Tri-X is vastly better technically, but this primitive MF stuff has a certain other worldliness that is very intriguing to me.
Any and all comments...or even better, visceral reactions, are most welcome.
Also: if anybody can verify that frame #45 is Cold War Berlin, please do.
http://tinyurl.com/avgb3b
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
Cool!
#45 certainly is Cold War Berlin, but it just as certainly is not Checkpoint Charlie, as the transparent on the picture welcomes West Berlin citizens - Checkpoint Charlie was a gate for Allied diplomats and citizens only, and strictly unpassable for Germans up to the very end.
#45 certainly is Cold War Berlin, but it just as certainly is not Checkpoint Charlie, as the transparent on the picture welcomes West Berlin citizens - Checkpoint Charlie was a gate for Allied diplomats and citizens only, and strictly unpassable for Germans up to the very end.
bucks11
Established
This was so cool to scroll...
Makes me want to dig into some old negs I found in a clean-out at my Grandparents.
Makes me want to dig into some old negs I found in a clean-out at my Grandparents.
fraley
Beware of Claws
I like all of them -- they capture the innocence of the time.
Newjerseyjohn
Member
really great.. really really cool
marknyc
Established
Cool shots.
I went through Checkpoint Charlie about 30 years ago (as an allied citizen).
I went through Checkpoint Charlie about 30 years ago (as an allied citizen).