Old 3D Slides

[P3D RJ Thorpe <thorpe@xxxxxxxx>]

All this talk about what slides are worth got me to look up a box of
slides that my brother gave to me when his father-in-law died. Many 
were out of focus or improperly exposed. Many were of family members.
Some were downright interesting. You could see his progression going
from one box to the next. He tried to get near, medium, and far 
subjects in the pictures. Sometimes he had flowers or tree limbs
just inches from the lens and these did not turn out too well. But 
the mistake wasn't made again. Interestingly, most of the slides were
processed by Kodak back in the late 50's. One entire box was mounted
backwards and of these, one even had a chip up-side-down.

But looking for these slides caused me to find an experiment I tried
in the late 70's. I shot a roll of black and white film in my 
Realist thinking to print some of my earliest Holmes cards in my
own darkroom. Color was out of the question back then. I happened
onto a Kodak product that was a continuous tone ortho film in 8x10
sheets. I forget what it is now. Anyway, you could contact print
your roll of film onto this material under a red safelight. When you
cut it apart you had B&W slides. I should have spent a little more
time with it because the slides were a little flat. But I think with
selective exposure and development you could have snapped them up.
Enough rambling.

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RJ Thorpe
Cedar Rapids, IA
mailto:thorpe@xxxxxxxx
http://www.skep.com


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