Show your photos from a vintage folder

[kuzano]

Originally Posted by literiter

I'm beginning to really wonder why we go through all the trouble of inventing 35 megapixel cameras, vibration reduction, Photoshop, zoom lenses, $5000.00 + lenses when some of this work is so scary good.

If you want to see truly scary, go back and go through some of the old shoeboxes of pictures your parents and grandparents stashed away. In the case of your grandparents, many of them took pictures with these old folders. Also, many of them were just grabbing snapshots, and not particularly good at photography.

Now, that's scary when you see how good many of those old photographs and negs look even today.

I know my grandpa was not patient enough to be called good at taking pictures. His tactic was, "Ok, everybody stand over there by the sign, and smile." CLICK! "OK, now back in the car!" RRRRNNNNHHH!

[literiter]

Originally Posted by kuzano

If you want to see truly scary, go back and go through some of the old shoeboxes of pictures your parents and grandparents stashed away. In the case of your grandparents, many of them took pictures with these old folders. Also, many of them were just grabbing snapshots, and not particularly good at photography.

Now, that's scary when you see how good many of those old photographs and negs look even today.

I know my grandpa was not patient enough to be called good at taking pictures. His tactic was, "Ok, everybody stand over there by the sign, and smile." CLICK! "OK, now back in the car!" RRRRNNNNHHH!

I think we should get some of us, me included, to post what we think are the best of our parents and grandparents pictures from before the '60s when they were using folders and box cameras or whatever.

[MRohlfing]

Originally Posted by literiter

I think we should get some of us, me included, to post what we think are the best of our parents and grandparents pictures from before the '60s when they were using folders and box cameras or whatever.

Okay, I'll start with some photos my father made in the 1930's. The negatives are 6x9 cm, the camera might have been a Bessa (not sure, though). Subtitles are the original notes my father made.


"An der Werra"


"Zeltlager mit Dampfer"

[MRohlfing]

Some more!


"Allendorf"


"Egon mit Radfahrergruppe" (Egon is my father, third from left)

[literiter]

The princess Norah at the little dock on the Island.





Row boat and collection of "summer cabins"





Man on Log boom.





Fishing boat and log boom.

These pictures were taken the summer of 1949 on my Mom's old brownie Box camera. I still have it.

[MRohlfing]

"Flugzeuge (Lufthansa)" - Air France also

[MRohlfing]

"München"

[MRohlfing]

"Lübeck"


"Lübeck"

[MRohlfing]

I don't have the slightest idea who these folks are

[intheviewfinder]

This photo was shot in early summer or spring 1978. This is my friends' Geoff & Gregg mother Marion. I'm sitting at her kitchen table in Newport RI. It was just a beautiful warm space. Shot with a Canon A-1 with the 50mm f/1.4 lens using Tri-X 400.



--Rich

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by literiter

I think we should get some of us, me included, to post what we think are the best of our parents and grandparents pictures from before the '60s when they were using folders and box cameras or whatever.

But my father had a TLR. Unfortunately, all those old photos I liked to look at as a kid, are long gone. Sigh!

You know, I had not thought about it, but those old photos are part of the reason I have had a life long love of photography. It may also explain why I like old cameras so much, of course, that may just be that I am now old....

[Argenticien]

With a Rodenstock and Agfa shoppe (or, studio using them?) in it, no less! Brilliant!!
--Dave

Originally Posted by MRohlfing

"München"

[Peter_wrote:]

Originally Posted by literiter

I think we should get some of us, me included, to post what we think are the best of our parents and grandparents pictures from before the '60s when they were using folders and box cameras or whatever.

i took the liberty to start an own thread for these. http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...d.php?t=119994


i think it's better this way, then have all the box cameras and 35mm film pictures in the vintage folder thread.

[literiter]

Originally Posted by Peter_wrote:

i took the liberty to start an own thread for these. http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...d.php?t=119994


i think it's better this way, then have all the box cameras and 35mm film pictures in the vintage folder thread.

Good idea!

[joeswe]

Originally Posted by MRohlfing

"Lübeck"


"Lübeck"

Thank you for posting. This pic shows the Marktplatz (market place) and famous gothic Town Hall of the North German town of Lübeck. Something is written on the tents (?) that are put up there, it looks like "Weltfeind" ("enemy of the world") to me. I think the Nazis used that expression when referring to communism. Could it be the 1930s and part of some Nazi propaganda show? The busses in front seem to be unrelated, there is a signpost saying "Lübcker Stadt-Rundfahrten" ("Lübeck City Tours").

[joeswe]

Okay, this is becoming interesting, with a quick search I found an article in German newspaper "Westfälische Rundschau" titled "Racist Propaganda and War-mongering" that reports that in 1936 the Nazis started an anti-communist propaganda roadshow titled "Weltfeind Nr. 1 - Der Bolschewismus" ("Enemy of the world no. 1 - Bolshevism"). This is a quote from the mentioned article (translation done by me, sorry for any corrupt English):

The re-militarization of the "Reich" was orchestrated with an anti-bolshevic campaign lanced by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda which started with a hate-stirring propaganda exhibition titled Enemy of the World No. 1 - Bolshevism alongside the Nuremberg Rally on Sep. 8, 1936. Two months later a similar propaganda show (only produced on a much bigger scale) started in Munich. Both [exhibitions] toured the country like a traveling circus and were shown in various cities.

[the original quote for German readers: "Die Remilitarisierung des Reiches erfolgte vor dem Hintergrund einer vom Propagandaministerium lancierten, antibolschewistischen Kampagne, deren Auftakt auf dem Nürnberger Parteitag am 8. September 1936 mit der Hetz- und Schandausstellung "Weltfeind Nr. 1 - Der Bolschewismus" begangen wurde. Zwei Monate später eröffnete in München eine vergleichbare, aber weitaus aufwändiger inszenierte Propagandaschau. Beide wurden, einem Wanderzirkus gleich, in verschiedenen Städten gezeigt."]

This is a picture posted in the quoted article that shows the trucks there were used for the roadshow with the "Weltfeind" logo, very similar to the one seen in the picture from Lübeck:
http://www.derwesten.de/img/incoming...0051402318.jpg

[MRohlfing]

Originally Posted by joeswe

Thank you for posting. This pic shows the Marktplatz (market place) and famous gothic Town Hall of the North German town of Lübeck. Something is written on the tents (?) that are put up there, it looks like "Weltfeind" ("enemy of the world") to me. I think the Nazis used that expression when referring to communism. Could it be the 1930s and part of some Nazi propaganda show? The busses in front seem to be unrelated, there is a signpost saying "Lübecker Stadt-Rundfahrten" ("Lübeck City Tours").

Yes, must have been in the late(?) 1930s. It's a pity my father did not note the date in the list of his pics, he just wrote "Lübeck".

[citizen99]

Voigtlander Bessa Rangefinder, circa 1936, Heliar, Portra 400

The Pump, Thornbury. September 2011 by johnnyh4, on Flickr

[citizen99]

Voigtlander Bessa Rangefinder, circa 1936, Heliar, Portra 400

Great Pulteney Street, Bath. September 2011 by johnnyh4, on Flickr

[Alfasud]

ZI Nettar 510/2

[Alfasud]

ZI Nettar 510/2

[Krosya]

Just went through some pages of this old thread - and I'm AGAIN amazed by all those old folders. Quality photos they can deliver, plus pics from them seem to have some other quality. I get this feeling like when I look at the paintings. Not sure how to explain, but it's a very pleasing experience. Thanks for posting, everyone!

[cardenal1766]

Voigtländer Bessa 1935 Uncoated Skopar 10.5 cm f4.5

[cardenal1766]

Voigtländer Bessa 1935 Uncoated Skopar 10.5 cm f4.5

[cardenal1766]

Voigtländer Bessa RF 1937
Uncoated Heliar 105 f3,5
Ilford Pan F Plus 50
Rodinal 1/100 60 min