Post by PeterW on Dec 5, 2005 8:46:50 GMT -5
Hi all,
I too found some old negatives last weekend. They were in a small negative album thrown in a box of old paperback novels on the stall of a general junk dealer at a car boot sale. The album envelopes are number 1 to 100, but there are quite a few that have several negs in each envelope.
There's an index in the front, but it's written in pencil in tiny writing and I can't read many of the entries. I pulled out a few that I could read and scanned them in. They're 6x6, and were obviously taken with something better than a snapshot camera, and the lady photographer had quite a good eye for a picture. The first two I've shown here were taken at Henley, on the River Thames west of London. The other of a church doorway doesn't say where it was taken. They are dated July 1951 and labelled FP3, Promicrol, so she apparently did her own developing. They're all nicely exposed and nicely developed.
How do I know it was a lady? Because near the front of the album is a 6x9 neg taken with a much lower quality camera and just labelled "Me, 1949".
It's a shame that this lady's negs should have been thrown in with a lot of old books on a junk dealer's stall, marked 50p each. I do hope that whoever had them has kept an album of her prints. Anyway, here they are. I did nothing in Photoshop except crop them slightly and straighten the sloping horizon in the last picture.
I too found some old negatives last weekend. They were in a small negative album thrown in a box of old paperback novels on the stall of a general junk dealer at a car boot sale. The album envelopes are number 1 to 100, but there are quite a few that have several negs in each envelope.
There's an index in the front, but it's written in pencil in tiny writing and I can't read many of the entries. I pulled out a few that I could read and scanned them in. They're 6x6, and were obviously taken with something better than a snapshot camera, and the lady photographer had quite a good eye for a picture. The first two I've shown here were taken at Henley, on the River Thames west of London. The other of a church doorway doesn't say where it was taken. They are dated July 1951 and labelled FP3, Promicrol, so she apparently did her own developing. They're all nicely exposed and nicely developed.
How do I know it was a lady? Because near the front of the album is a 6x9 neg taken with a much lower quality camera and just labelled "Me, 1949".
It's a shame that this lady's negs should have been thrown in with a lot of old books on a junk dealer's stall, marked 50p each. I do hope that whoever had them has kept an album of her prints. Anyway, here they are. I did nothing in Photoshop except crop them slightly and straighten the sloping horizon in the last picture.
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