On a ralated note, perhaps also interesting: http://www.apug.org/forums/forum65/45574-60-year-old-leica-negatives-dis covered.html Best, Cor > -----Original Message----- > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver- > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Snoopy > Sent: maandag 28 januari 2008 19:37 > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > At 04:09 24.01.2008, you wrote: > >http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm > > > >Bob R > >======================================================================= == > ==================================== > >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to > >your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when > >you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > > > "Ceterum censeo, digitalem esse delendam" > > ======================================================================== == > =================================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.