I've mentioned before that I kept my negatives & slides in archival sleeves in binders & that most of the binders were destroyed when my home was damaged by Hurricane Fran (roof came off, ceilings collapsed, binders buried).
In the years since I've found some quantity of materials I hadn't gotten around to properly preserving and these materials survived the disaster. With my Nikon scanner now working under Windows 7 I've started scanning the old slides & negatives that survived. My first impression is the reason that I never got around to placing them into archival protectors in the binders I kept is that most of them weren't very good photography. I collected the best into the binders & the rest languished. Among the surviving materials is a box of slides from Dale Laboratories. Dale used to advertise in the back of Popular Photography & Shutterbug that you could send them your regular color negative film & they'd send back prints, negatives *and slides*. I've been trying to figure out what kind of film process Dale used to produce the slides. I think what they did was expose the negatives onto film that was made for motion picture prints (i.e. the film that went through the projector in the theater). Google has let me down. I can't find any site that gives me an explanation of the process or tells me what the likely film would have been. Almost everything I turned up wanted to tell me how to scan the slides I already have, but no one has a site about the process of creating slides from negatives. Anyway, one of the "rescued" Dale Laboratories slides, scanned & processed. Monkeys at the North Carolina Zoo in 1988. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/13904232928/ Most likely I took this with a Tokina 70-210 zoom on a Pentax Super Program. There are a lot of artifacts that I don't think came from the dust removal process, because they're scattered throughout & not just where there was dust or dirt I couldn't get off the slide before scanning. -- 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.
