A Leica camera life story.
When a dear friend of mine died his extensive 35mm slide collection was destined for the dump. His family did not appreciate his life’s work of slides taken with his Leica camera. I requested if l could have the projector cassettes of some 4,000 photos, to rescue the local heritage captured from the 60s to 90s on the slides.
l’m glad l have been able to have them professionally digitally transferred recently. The biggest surprise was that the quality of the captured images did not match the expected results l was expecting to see. The Kodak and Fiji slides had all been environmentally well stored with no real degradation, but the end results were not at all brilliant, and are a huge disappointment. He boasted having the best tripods and lenses including wide angle and telescopic. They were badly composed, under and over exposed and even horizons not level. Basic settings and composition all over the place.
I still will value the memories of a well liked family friend, but he did not achieve many outstanding photos with the best equipment he had. I suppose owning high quality equipment is no guarantee that the end product will amount to much. Unless you know what you are doing it can all come down to end in nothing special.
Unsurprisingly l’ve had the same experiences with some friends self-claimed “audiophile” systems.
