I suspect that someone photographed magazine pages. I don’t think the dot pattern is in the film.
Paul On Feb 27, 2014, at 4:32 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's something the more experienced photographers might be able to help me > with... > > Among these old slides I've been scanning are a handful of colour ones which > are not part of the Australian stuff. A few of these colour ones (but not > all) appear to have a kind of halftone pattern. See here for an example at > 1200ppi. > > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/771/ > > As you can imagine it's fiendishly difficult to scan. Once I have a good > scan (ie not blown out) it's quite easy to get rid of the pattern in > Photoshop. Note I haven't done any colour corrections other than increasing > the brightness a bit. > > I've had a look using a 10x loupe and it looks a bit like an LCD screen but > is hard to make out at such a low magnification. I might try a higher res > scan later, and I'll find out whether the microscope at my wife's work has a > camera. > > Could anyone fill me in on what the film might be? The photo in the pic was > taken in 1951. In case you're curious it's part of a photo taken at the top > of Dyers Pass after a snow storm. I might post the full pic in future. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
