I've posted 20 "new" pictures--recently copied slides from my late
mother's collection. These are pictures of my parents, my mother's
family and their friends, c. 1950-53, before I came on the scene. Start
here, and click on the left side of the picture for the "previous" 19
pictures.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/24864974880/in/dateposted-public/>
My Mom got her camera in 1949. She shot one roll of Plus-X, then started
using Kodachrome and never looked back. She shot a Bolsey B2
rangerfinder with a 44mm f/3.2 Wollensak Anastigmat lens and leaf
shutter. I still have it. Remember that pre-1961, Kodachrome film was
ASA 10. Except in bright sunlight, fairly slow exposure times had to be
used. I had to go through lots of blurred slides to find a few
reasonably sharp ones show here.
I just got a Nikon ES-1 slide copier attachment for my camera. I
connected it to my Olympus E-M5 via a couple of step-up rings, a 28/2.8
Olympus OM manual focus lens from the 80s, a rickety 13mm extension tube
and a strip of masking tape to fasten the extension tube to the lens and
neutralize said ricketiness. Theoretically, the 28mm OM lens shouldn't
be good enough to act as a macro lens, but in practice, it appears to
be. It doesn't quite resolve the film grain, but the pictures are quite
good enough for screen viewing. And it's *so* much quicker and easier
than using a film scanner. I may spring for a real micro 4/3 macro
lens, or I may not. These look pretty darn good to me.
Enjoy!
--Peter
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