Our Camping History 1963 to 1975
What is it that propels us to travel and camp? Is it something that resides in our itchy bones or is it something instilled by early experience? Maybe some of both, I don't know. My wife has the sa...
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'hotrodfords' knocked this to the top of queue and I stumbled into it. I don't think I've seen the topic since I last posted in it in July of 2012. It still remains a _classic_ !
Like 'hotrodfords', I also came away with _new_ questions: I assume the color pictures were KODACHROME slides ( ? ). Even then, the colors came out brilliant. Did you restore the photos in any way or did you just get lucky ? What did you use to capture and digitize the images ? It has been so long since I looked at my own slides from the pre-2000 era that I'm wondering how they would look in comparison to yours if they were similarly published online.
I've done some photo restoration work before of some slides of my father-in-law's from the 1950's that were not well exposed in the first place and then badly scratched in slide projectors. Restoring damage and saturating colors can be a tedious effort. My own slides are in pristine condition but I'm not sure what effect the passage of time has had on them.
As far as camping is concerned, the subject of my own slides are tenting and from the 1980's on. I had experience with SLR's since the mid-1960's but I didn't own my own SLR until I came back from living in Europe (...where I did a _lot_ of camping) in the late 1970's. But by the time I had a camera, I was working 60 hour weeks and probably didn't do much hiking and camping again until the 1980's. Didn't have the first 'real' RV until 2006. I tried fooling around with a bed cap on a FORD Ranger starting in 2004 - - found I liked the tent _better_ !
Like 'hotrodfords', I also came away with _new_ questions: I assume the color pictures were KODACHROME slides ( ? ). Even then, the colors came out brilliant. Did you restore the photos in any way or did you just get lucky ? What did you use to capture and digitize the images ? It has been so long since I looked at my own slides from the pre-2000 era that I'm wondering how they would look in comparison to yours if they were similarly published online.
I've done some photo restoration work before of some slides of my father-in-law's from the 1950's that were not well exposed in the first place and then badly scratched in slide projectors. Restoring damage and saturating colors can be a tedious effort. My own slides are in pristine condition but I'm not sure what effect the passage of time has had on them.
As far as camping is concerned, the subject of my own slides are tenting and from the 1980's on. I had experience with SLR's since the mid-1960's but I didn't own my own SLR until I came back from living in Europe (...where I did a _lot_ of camping) in the late 1970's. But by the time I had a camera, I was working 60 hour weeks and probably didn't do much hiking and camping again until the 1980's. Didn't have the first 'real' RV until 2006. I tried fooling around with a bed cap on a FORD Ranger starting in 2004 - - found I liked the tent _better_ !
