[pure-silver] Re: Found Film Prints
----- Original Message ----- From: "Snoopy" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Found Film Prints



Dear Bob et. al,.
my Mom just turned 80 and she is sorting out lots of her old stuff. She recently sent me 85 single b/w negatives in 6x9 cm (2.5x3.5 inch) made with her very first camera around 1955/1956 (a Kodak Retina if she recalls correctly but I am not sure if they made something of that format. Could have been AGFA, bu she cannot really recall).
Printed them up with my old Durst (probably the same age) and the prints are fine.
It's very similar to your situation: I learnt so much about my family sending her the prints and talking to her about them, I took copious notes.
I now have a picture of my father as a younger man boarding a truly funky looking VW Beetle pre-cursor! :-) Plus I never knew my Dad was such a swash-buckling lad (after all he did get on my nerves a lot as parents do :-))
As they say: when you are 14 your parents are moronic tyrants. When you are thirty with your own kids its amazing how much more knowledge your parents have gained in the meantime :-) 

It's really great digging in the past...

Love
Snoopy


    You are lucky to still have your mom around:-)
The camera would not have been a Retina, they were made only for 35mm film, however, Kodak made a great many 6x9 cameras including the famous Medalist. I think the Tourist was also a 6x9. Both had excellent lenses, especially the Medalist. In the 1950's an Agfa camera would have had to come from Germany but Ansco sold much the same models under the Ansco name. Some of these were of very high quality. Of course the camera is really irrelevant. Most of my family pictures got lost in some move many years ago. This is a real sore point because I used to reprint them when I was in my teens. I had a wonderful picture of my dad on a horse in front of a building that said Altoona on it. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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