India 1940s

Images scanned from old negatives and prints taken by my father during time in India.
Generally scans are from 620 size roll film negatives and contact prints. Scans reworked to recover and repair faded images using Paint Shop Pro.
a short history - from an early age my father had an interest in photography and at age 17 spent three summer seasons in a photographic processing department. He was posted to India 1944 to 1946 and I expect he took some film stock along, although a lot of the print paper used out there had WD printed on the reverse. A reference from his commanding officer makes note that father was responsible for starting up a camera club at the Delhi depot, so no doubt that provided some of the material. I don't think they had access to enlarging facilities as the majority of surviving prints were all made by contact using a daylight frame.
As a (young) boy and chief stirrer of the Paterson Bakelite developing tank, I learnt the basics of D&P using the same process,those were the days!

Images scanned from old negatives and prints taken by my father during time in India. Generally scans are from 620 size roll film negatives and contact prints. Scans reworked to recover and repair faded images using Paint Shop Pro. a short history - from an early age my father had an interest in photography and at age 17 spent three summer seasons in a photographic processing department. He was p…  (read more)

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