Photographic Notes:

 © Charles S. Johnson, Jr.

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    The AHS photographs were taken by CSJ except as annotated.  The photographs were primarily taken with the following cameras:

1.  Zeiss Ikonta 35: 35 mm film. Zeiss Tessar F2.8/45mm lens.  No range finder, no light meter, and nothing automatic.  MAJ is holding this camera in Gallery 5.  (1" x 1.5" negatives)

2.  Rolleicord III:  120 film. Schneider Xenar F3.5/75mm lens.  Focusing screen but no light meter.  This camera appears on the Distant Mirror page.  (2.25" x 2.25" negatives)

3.  Century Graphic: 2.25" x 3.25" roll film, sheet film, or pack film. Trioptar    F4.5/101 mm lens.  Made by Graflex.  The Trioptar is the cheapest (worst) lens for this camera.

4.  Ciroflex C:  120 film.  F3.5/85 mm lens.  Inexpensive American made 6 x 6 cm TLR.

    The narrow photos were made primarily with camera 1.  The prom photos and most of the other "square" photos were made with camera 2.

    The Century Graphic with strobe-light electronic flash was used for night time football and a few other things.  It was borrowed from McCollum's Photo.  Unfortunately, it never produced very sharp photographs - probably the fault of the lens.

    The Ciroflex C was used for a brief period in 1951 before the Rollei was purchased.  It produced some of the street scenes, in particular those involving the Shriners' parade.  The images were impressive.

    The black-and white film was largely Kodak Plus X.  At that time the speed was only ASA 50 and the film was very grainy in spite of the use of fine grain developer.  A fair amount of 35 mm ANSCO Supreme film was also used.  Color slides (35mm) were mainly Kodak Kodachrome.  Other slide films (Ektachrome, Anscochrome, etc.) tended to fade and change color.  These problems can be fixed to some extent with Adobe Photoshop.

    The 35mm negatives and slides were scanned with an HP Photosmart S20 at 2400 dpi to give 20 MB (color) and 7 MB (B&W) TIF files.  The 120 negatives and in one case a 4" x 5" negative were scanned with an HP Scanjet 5370 with transparency attachment.  The maximum resolution was 1200 dpi.

    For web presentation, images were cropped to a maximum dimension of 6" at 90 dpi and were saved as low quality (#3) jpeg files.