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Went to the Times Colonist 150th / British Colonist digital launch today. Very well put together and I am very pleased to be working with people who made it happen.
If you are in any way interested in BC history, you must bookmark the site which holds the digitized editions of the first 52 years (December 1858 - June 1910) of the British (later Victoria) Colonist. Awesome.
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From back of photo: "Emma Gleeson DeHart, Jim Gleeson, Florence (Ted) Gleeson. 1934."
Emma Campbell Gleeson DeHart, 1904-1995
James H. Gleeson, 1912-1986
Florence (Ted) Budd Gleeson, 1901-1980
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Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Scanned with Epson V550 | Lomography
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: Frontier
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0
Leica M3 | Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/2 ZM | Ilford HP5 400
Digitized with Epson Vuescan V550 + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0 | Lomography
Ilford DDX
Here's what the capture software looks like as it is scanning. This software comes bundled with the Plustek Opticbook Pro. I really hated it initially, because it is not as adjustable as the Epson software but now I am used to working with it and any inconsistencies can be adjusted in post-production (generally Photoshop).
From back of photo: "Ted Gleeson (Florence), Mother Gleeson, Emma DeHart, Pauline Gleeson. 1948."
Florence (Ted) Budd Gleeson, 1901-1980
Lydia P. Eastlack Gleeson, 1872-1953
Emma Campbell Gleeson DeHart, 1904-1995
Pauline Gleeson Hall, 1925-2013
From back of photo: "Grandma Gleeson, Emma DeHart, Blanche Gleeson, James Gleeson, Florence DeHart, Dolly DeHart, Gail Gleeson, and neighbors. June 1941. Liverpool. Howard's backyard."
Lydia P. Eastlack Gleeson, 1872-1953
Emma Campbell Gleeson DeHart, 1904-1995
Blanche R. Haines Gleeson, 1904-1969
James C. Gleeson, 1939-2012
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
Gail Gleeson, 1943-
After the failed series of reversal Adox SCALA 50, I needed to reassure me with a normally processed negative film.
I took again my venerable Leica M3 camera loaded with a 36-exposure Rollei RPX25 that I have still never tried. The Summicron lens was equipped with a Hoya HMC AUV screw-on 39mm protective filter plus the Leitz shade hood.
Contrary to the other RPX film series coated on traditional cellulose acetate base, the ROLLEI RPX25 is coated on a PET (Polyester TeraPhtalate) polymer as the "S" Rollei films, The film is like the "S" series specialy sensitized in the red band to the near-IR (superpanchromatic) and was used for high-resolution aerial photography.
Expositions were determined for the indicated 25 ISO -15° DIN using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
The outside temperature was about 33°C with a bright sunny weather in the afternoon. Typically exposures were made at 1/100s with apertures ranging from f/8 to 2.8.
Montée de la Grande Côte, August 6, 2024
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+50 and 20°C for 11 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera and the lens :
This Leica M3 circa 1956 (Ref. Leitz ISUMO), double stroke, was sold to me with a Leitz Wetzlar Summicron collapsible normal lens 1:2 f=5cm of the same period equipped with a 39mm screw-on protective filter, a 42mm push-on Leica lens cap and an original Leitz shade hood (Ref. Leitz IROOA).
The camera was serviced in Paris, France, in 2018 by Gérard Métrot at Photo-Suffren, (a Leica boutique) who worked on the maintenance of camera's of famous French photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. The camera was inspected by Odéon-Photo, Paris, another historic Leica place in Paris, in April 2024.
I sourced at the same time in Germany a stunning Leitz Leica leather bag (Ref; Leitz IDCOO) of the same model that appeared on the back cover page go the Leica brochure year 1954. This bag can accommodate the camera and a mounted Leica-Meter type M. The interior in covered with a carmin velvet in perfect condition.
The Leica M3 is one of the most iconic range-finder 35mm camera of the 50's and the 60's. It was produced in Wetzlar, Germany, in different versions at 226178 exemplars, between 1954 (n° 700000) and 1966 (n° 1164865, www.summilux.net/materiel/Leica-M3) . The Leica M3 was the result of the study of a "super-Leica" that was started before WWII and only achieved in the 50'S.
The greater improvement of the M3 compared the classical Leica's was in a magnificent and very complex range-finder combined to the view finder permitting the framing with the two eyes open, integrating the frame in the real and normal vision. The shutter integrates too the normal and the slow speeds in the same barillet. The film advance of this version of Leica M3 is also the typical "double-stroke" advance that was exclusive to the Leica M3 first versions.
The camera was transported to me from Paris to Lyon, France on April 26, 2024 and the bag arrived the day after.
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Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Negative Supply
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: Frontier
From back of photo: "Dolly, 4 age. Florence, 5 age. DeHart. Jul. 22, 1939."
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
88720811 :Piction ID--McDonnell Douglas DC-10 production area 1963---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
On December 1st , then on December 5, 2025, I did my first photo session remote from home after my stay to hospital November 15-24. I felt confident with my physical condition and I really enjoyed these two small excursion with my circa-1959 French TLR Semflex OTO 3.5B (see below for details about the camera). Loaded with aRollei RPX 400 black-and-white film.
On December 1st, I went in the afternoon from Lyon, France, to Poleymieux in the Mont-d’Or massif where I did only 4 photos at the church and one « caborne » that not far away. The weather was fresh (5°C) and sunny. On December 5, I went to the Gallo-Roman museum in Fourvières using the public transportations. I did the rest of the roll indoor before going down the hill, in a cold rain and dark end of the afternoon. I passed by « Les Ateliers de Marinette », Saint-Georges street. They have the largest choice and the best price for films and photography chemicals. I had then a nice hot chocolate there before returning home to process my film.
Outdor, I used on the SOM Berthiot FLOR 3.5/75mm taking lens, a push-on Semflex hood and the Semflex yellow x2 filter. I protected also the viewing lens with a 42mm FOCA push-on AUV filter. Indoor, I used no filter for the taking lens. Light metering was done outdoor with my Minolta Autometer III (1983) and its 10° selective viewer privileging the shadow areas. The yellow filter absorption was compensated by metering for 250 ISO instead 400. Indoor, I metered mostly incident light with integrating opale dome.
Documentary smartphone pictures
December 5, 2025
Musée Gallo-Romain Lugdunum
Fourrière
69005 Lyon
France
After completion, the film was processed in a Paterson developing tank with a spiral adapted to the 120-format film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25and the film processed for 9 min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 15.0.1 of November 2025) and edited them to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG together with some documentary smartphone pictures.
About the camera:
This beautiful French Semflex TLR OTO 3.5 B year 1959 is equipped with a French SOM Berthiot Flor 1:3.5 f=75mm (4 elements of the Tessar type). I got the camera from a neighboring collector in Lyon, France, who is progressively reducing a very large camera collection. He provided already to me my nice FOCAsport II two years ago.
The SEM company ("Société des Etablissements Modernes de Mécanique") was founded in France by Paul Royet in 1946, in the small city of Aurec near Saint-Etienne (Loire) and about 65 km away from Lyon. The SEM camera's were known especially for the TLR’s Semflex that were a great commercial success in France until the 70's (last production 1976). The camera's are constructed around an injected aluminum alloy chassis, very resistant and rigid permitting precise optical alignments. The focusing mechanism is made of a cam system like the Rolleiflex giving an accurate and smooth focusing. SEM constructed their own shutters called « Orec » with 5 leaves capable of the 1/400s to 1s with B.
Semflex received in majority French optics Berthiot with 3 or 4 lenses (Cooke triplet and Tessar type, respectively). Some camera's were also mounted with Pierre Angénieux X1 lenses.
Semflex were trusted TLR camera's used by amateurs and for professional purposes. From 1949 to 1976, 171.000 Semflex were produced in many different types and versions. This OTO 3;5 B, type-30, (1955-199) is the top of the TLR line year 1959. I got the camera with the original SEMFLEX box and the user manual. The accessories include the specific SEM ever-ready leather bag in very good condition, the quite rare quite rare bipolar to PC port flash relay Semflex and a short (10 cm) shutter release cable.
The OTO 3.5 B is covered with a black leather and the metallic parts covered with black enamel. This model has a specific bayonet mount fro lenses accessories but still accepts the push-on normal SEM filter and shade hood.
Strangely, the SEMFLEX’s has no lens caps in a the available list of accessories. I adjusted two black caps of 35mm film canister to protect the two lenses.
The shutter (OREC 1s-1/400s + B) was functional including the slow speeds but has a propension sometimes to open slowly (closure is normal) due likely to a sticky lubricant somewhere. I gave the camera to the same local expert who already maintained my other Semflex 3.5 Standard. The complete cleaning and lubricating was done and the shutter returned in its original specs.
The OTO (or OTOMATIC) series has a coupled film advance to the shutter cocking. The film advance is of the « double-stroke » type (like early Leica M3) with automatic frame counter. I tested successfully the flash synchronization with the GODOX Lux Master electronic flash and its synchro cable connected to the SEM bipolar relay.
Reference : SEM et les SEMFLEX, Patrice-Hervé Pont, FOTOSAGA, 1995.
From back of photo: "Florence DeHart, Dolly DeHart, Jean Hulse. Neighbor's 2 little girls. Florida, 1945."
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
Marilyn Jean Hulse Aumack, 1934-2006
The Vaporetto is a shuttle boat in regular service on the Saône, Lyon, France, servicing 4 stations; Vaise / St Paul / Bellecour and Confluence, 7 days the week, crossing North to South the whole city.
I used it for a photo tour with my SLR camera Olympus OM-1 (year 1976) fitted with its normal lens the normal lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm.
The camera was loaded with a Kodak Tri-X 36-exposure film. All the views were exposed with a generic 49mm yellow filter. The film was exposed for 400 ISO using the camera TTL built-in light meter an 250 ISO when using my Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder the compensate the filter absorption assuming a coef. x1.5). The Zuiko lens was also equipped with a a generic cylindrical 4 9mm screw-on shade hood.
Waiting for the Vaporetto, October 23, 2023
Quai Arloing
69009 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal developper at dilution 1+50 at 20°C for 14min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg
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About the camera :
My Olympus OM-1 MD was purchased from a local photography shop in Lyon, France, May 31, 2022.
Olympus OM-1 MD was commercially available from 1974 to 1978 and represented the fully mechanical SLR of a new class ("miniature SLR's") , smaller and lighter than SLR made before. It prefigured the size of most of the SLR's of the 80's.
The kit included the normal lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm, a Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4 f=75-150 mm with Olympus original rigid case, a Sigma Tele-Macro x2 converter, a small flash Olympus PE200 (GN 14 at 100 ISO) with case, A Crystal Titanium x 0.48 wide-angle converter (still never tested), and several 49 mm filters.
This specific OM-1 MD was constructed in Jan. 1976 according to the printed reference "ス ("su ") 615" on the back of the film plate.
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Scanned with Epson V550 | Lomography
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: Frontier
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Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Epson V550 + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 | Lomography
Rodinal 1-50
From back of photo: "Frank Eastlack. Uncle Frank. Brother of Lydia Eastlack Gleeson. Uncle of Emma G. DeHart. Piper and Marcus Studio. Formerly Clifford's. 270 S. Second Street, Philadelphia."
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Franklin T. Eastlack, Sr. 1882-
From back of photo: "Janet R. Jean (Beryl's sister)."
Janet G. Griep Renaud Lee, 1909-1986
Jean L. Albers Whitmire, 1929-2023
Nikon FM2, 50mm 1:1.4, ADOX CHS 100, processed on a JOBO ATL 800, digitized on a Epson F-3200, © Rui Delgado Alves, 2013
From back of photo: "Fort Liverpool, New York. Mother (Lydia P. Gleeson) and granddaughter Florence Lydia DeHart (Burns). 1941."
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Lydia P. Eastlack Gleeson, 1872-1953
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Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Leica M6 | 21mm Color Skopar 3.5 Voiglander | Kodak TriX 400
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Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: Linear Deep | WB: None | LUT: Frontier
88788827 :Piction ID--Rocket plume from test run 12/11/1963---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
From back of photo: "November 29, 1938. Jackie. Age 3 yr., 3 months. Florence. Age 4 yr., 4 months."
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Negative Supply
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: Frontier