Images taken 30 years ago with a Kodak Retina 1a from 1938
Norm Shapiro wrote:
If you look at photographs made 100 years agp you will find very fine images.
These photos were made on (sometimes overly) big film or glass negatives, that gave them an advantage. The contact prints were impressively sharp and little enlargement would have been necessary. I can remember that my grandmother, born in 1907, was astonished that an enlarger cold be needed for printig. She had used a box with a bulb, light switch and ground glass!
This is a scanned contact print on baryt paper of a ca. 4x6 negative, photo taken by my grand uncle in WW II.
Even the contact print has enogh resolution to create a perfect postcard sized print. But this is more or less the only photo with no grave, no dead horse, no signs of intense fighting, so not an amusing collection.
Jan 14, 2026 at 02:50 PM
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