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Hi Everyone,
One of my usual Christmas holiday tasks is to review and discard papers and photographs from the household archives (excess stuff). This season, my wife and I did a major purging of my dad's thousands of Kodachrome slides from his many travels and living situations. He traveled and moved an amazing amount in the mid-20th century.
In 1950, he embarked on a major trip west from Guam back to USA. He had worked on Guam for an engineering company. The contract was over, and he returned to Massachusetts the long way, heading west. His slides show a world that has changed drastically. Here is Hong Kong with no skyscrapers!!
I scanned the slides with a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED, operated by Nikon Scan software on a WIN7 32-bit computer. I adjusted the colors with Photoshop. These are real pictures - no Ai. My dad used a Leica IIIC with 5cm ƒ/2 Summitar, which I still occasionally use.
Kodachrome was certainly a remarkably durable medium. The colors are not quite"right", but consider, these are 75 years old. I will save a tiny subset of his slides for my daughter.
One of my usual Christmas holiday tasks is to review and discard papers and photographs from the household archives (excess stuff). This season, my wife and I did a major purging of my dad's thousands of Kodachrome slides from his many travels and living situations. He traveled and moved an amazing amount in the mid-20th century.
In 1950, he embarked on a major trip west from Guam back to USA. He had worked on Guam for an engineering company. The contract was over, and he returned to Massachusetts the long way, heading west. His slides show a world that has changed drastically. Here is Hong Kong with no skyscrapers!!
I scanned the slides with a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED, operated by Nikon Scan software on a WIN7 32-bit computer. I adjusted the colors with Photoshop. These are real pictures - no Ai. My dad used a Leica IIIC with 5cm ƒ/2 Summitar, which I still occasionally use.
Kodachrome was certainly a remarkably durable medium. The colors are not quite"right", but consider, these are 75 years old. I will save a tiny subset of his slides for my daughter.
