.
Looking
at these photographs, don’t search for perfection.
Color
film in those days, particularly slide film, could be a pain in the neck!
Kodachrome
25 and 64 were really wonderful, showing sometimes breathtaking results, but by
the time you loaded your camera with Ektachrome 100 troubles began to surface.
Going beyond,
or above that - say Ektachrome 400, or other film with even higher ISO/ASA -, you
felt like committing suicide.
Fun, for
sure, but highly unpredictable!
Scanning
those old pieces of film is not a simple task: what was already bad, just gets
worse, you soon begin to shiver with hallucination, your unassuming photograph
may well turn out a surrealistic masterpiece…
Don’t
understand me wrong, nothing compares to a beautiful Kodachrome reflecting back
from the projection screen.
Yes,
slide film was intended to be projected – not scanned -, and there it genuinely
shone!
Photographs made with Leica cameras on Kodak film.
Heidelberg
is a very nice town, and I am glad that I had the chance to live there.
Three of
my four kids were born in this friendly place, and that is where my long-lasting
love affair with Leica cameras began.
I have
not cut ties with Heidelberg: my son Luís and some good friends live nearby, so
I am longing to go back there.
I won’t forget
to bring the Leica along!
Technical Data:
Cameras - Leica M (M2 + M4 + M4-2 + M5)
Lenses - various Leitz/Leica, some with Visoflex III
Films - Kodak Kodachrome + Kodak Ektachrome
Date - between 1981 and 1986
Location - Heidelberg, Germany
Scanner - Epson 4990
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