Out of the past

DEBORAH ABBOTT KISOR, JACKSON SQUARE, NEW ORLEANS, MAY 1968. PENTAX SPOTMATIC, 50mm f1.4, KODACHROME 25

I have been converting 40-plus years' worth of slides into digital files, and came across this shot of Debby taken during a tourist trip to New Orleans just eight months after we were married in June, 1967. The Kodachrome has held up well over half a century—and so, for that matter, has she. For the conversion I used a Wolverine Titan optical converter, which does remarkably well for its $135 price. A flatbed scanner might give marginally better results, but takes much longer to use. Click on the photo to see its fine detail.