W/NW: old pictures found

[chris91387]

i just love finding old family negatives/slides from the proverbial "shoebox in the closet" at my parents' house. it's always a kick to see something that hasn't been seen in decades.

i just found some old 120 negatives that my dad took of my mom most likely around 1967. there's also a picture of a group of friends. these were probably taken with a Yashica-D. i can't tell what kind of film it was but it scanned very nicely and i really didn't have to do much PS work.

let's see yours.

- chris

 

[Al Kaplan]

Recently I discovered a few boxes of 120 B&W negatives and contact sheets from the 1960's and 70's. There are several hundred rolls in total. Lately I've been scanning the full sheets and then posting the individual frames on my blog, dust spots and all. Some even have red grease pencil crop marks on them. Somehow they just seem to look more "real" that way. Or maybe it's just that I've been looking at them like that for over forty years. It's made me go back to shooting with a TLR again. http:thepriceofsilver.blogspot.com

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I hate to be the first to say this but, dude your mom's hot!
sorry.

I have about 25 slide carousel's with family shots from a friend that died recently, pretty cool shots, some borings one's and such. I will post a few later.

 

[MickH]

If I read your avatar correctly Chris, your girls are the image of their granny.

 

[bolohead]

I found some old negatives from a backpacking trip I went on when I was 14, some 22 years ago. It was a 2 week trip from Kings Canyon across the Sierra Nevada's to the Mono Lake side. I don't remember much about the trip and am glad that I have these to remind me. One thing I do remember was being in a place called Granite Basin near Granite Pass at over 11,000ft elevation and watching meteor showers while I lay in my sleeping bag.

These were probably taken with a Canon point and shoot as that is all I can remember using at that age.

 

[cmdrzed]

LOL at Todd.Hanz. hehehe

 

[chris91387]

ok, everyone stop talking about my mom! gross!

🙂

 

[pagpow]

Two comments, bolohead.

1) The lake shot has remarkable sense of space and depth to it, and seems almost wide-angle. Any notion which Canon P&S, and are you sure it was a P&S, which I would have pegged around 38-40mm (lens).

2) Your picture in the gallery here seems much more interesting than the same one on flickr -- I'm wondering whether this is simply an impression (my own and not shared). If not, I wonder if it is tied to the difft backgrounds -- white vs. black, software, or what. Any thoughts?

Thanks for posting.

 

[nuckabean]

An old kodachrome, the mount says march 1974. These are some of my family members, I guess my dad took it, probably with his Nikon F2 and 50mm 1.4

 

[Todd.Hanz]

ok, everyone stop talking about my mom! gross!

🙂

sorry bro, here's a few from the afore mentioned shots...Kodachrome

 

[bolohead]

Two comments, bolohead.

1) The lake shot has remarkable sense of space and depth to it, and seems almost wide-angle. Any notion which Canon P&S, and are you sure it was a P&S, which I would have pegged around 38-40mm (lens).

I'm almost positive it was a Canon as my father was a Canon fanatic. I checked the Canon Museum the Sure Shot or Super Sure Shot look really familiar to me. They had lenses in the FL range you were thinking of and they were popular in that period. The name really rings a bell, too.

2) Your picture in the gallery here seems much more interesting than the same one on flickr -- I'm wondering whether this is simply an impression (my own and not shared). If not, I wonder if it is tied to the difft backgrounds -- white vs. black, software, or what. Any thoughts?

These images are straight from Flickr. The only difference is the way they are presented here. I really wish Flickr had a black background or allowed you to customize the view.

Thanks for posting.

Thanks for your kind comments. I'll be scanning in more as time allows.

 

[bolohead]

I really like the Kodachromes nuckabean and Todd.Hanz. I've never shot that film and am now further motivated to try it and save the slides so my kids can find them several years down the road.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I really like the Kodachromes nuckabean and Todd.Hanz. I've never shot that film and am now further motivated to try it and save the slides so my kids can find them several years down the road.

me neither, but I'm thinking along the same lines.

Todd

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

ok, everyone stop talking about my mom! gross!

🙂

Sorry, dude, but she is freaking beautiful. 😀

I recently developed some toddler photos of my son that my wife took, then left in the camera undeveloped for ten years. They are hazy but evocative. Gotta dig up those files...

 

[Eryximachos]

126 negatives from a box in the attic

126 negatives from a box in the attic

I just had a bunch of recently found 126 negatives scanned by one of those web-based scanning services. This was taken with a Kodak Instamatic in about 1973 -- my sister and her (new) used VW Karmann Ghia.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Nice looking sister! My mom bought a brand new Karmen Ghia back about then. She was in her mid-fifties, newly divorced, and having the time of her life, but we weren't supposed to know that...LOL

I'm still shooting the same Leicas I owned back then.

 

[charjohncarter]

1941, by W.K. Amonette:

Also by WKA, 1946:

And one by me, 1963:

 

[cmdrzed]

It appears that gas was 31.9 cents. wow. Nice photos everyone. 🙂

 

[charjohncarter]

That was high test gas (or Ethyl to you newbies).

 

[Al Kaplan]

The average American car back then was lucky to get 12 miles per gallon.