Hi all,
As I have mentioned a while ago I am part of a committee organising a family
re-union for October 2006. On the 2nd October it will be the 150th
anniversary of one of our great grandparents coming to New Zealand from
Exeter in Devon to grow wheat, wool and children. All of which they did.
As part of the web-site I am making, I have reproduced many prints using the
E-1 and the manual Zuiko 50/3.5. I'm very pleased with the results, even from
some of the prints given to me which were Fuji-photo copies of old silver
halide shots. Here's just one such shot ex a small fuji print (E-1 hand-held
!!)
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/Ralph.htm
Many of the prints I have been working with are close to 100 years old,
stored sometime under indifferent conditions.
Many are 70+ years old, such as this one of my parents
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/Jim&May-Swale2.htm
I have to chose a commercial photographer to take group shots, similar to
some of which from 40 years ago are shown here
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/events.htm
Because these photos I'm working with have survived so well, and the
meeting we will have in October will itself become an important part historical
event, I will insist on the photographer being prepared to take medium format
( 6x9 if I can arrange it) B&W photos and have them mounted on cardboard,
and THIS time, names added. I am not prepared to put any long-term faith in
ordinary colour prints, (see this one copied from a wall-hanging framed,
glazed print, and considerably tweaked by me)
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/Killeen.htm
and certainly not on any form of digital storage which would doubtless not be
given the needed periodic maintenance and renewal..
Well, that's my line anyway. Hope all the hot links work :-))
Brian
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