I'll add a second nod to scanning on a flatbed. I scanned several old
family prints on an Epson 500 and found that it produced excellent
results. For faded color images or BW images that were yellowed or
tinted due to being poorly fixed, a simple auto levels or auto color
command in Photoshop made huge improvements toward restoring the
original look.
Mark
On 1/20/2015 5:17 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I just scanned 30 60-year-old BW prints for a magazine article. Used my Epson
500 then fine tuned them in PhotoShop. Excellent results.
On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding your copying of B&W photos (some of which are curling...
If you think that scanning would be a long job, I assure you that
copying them with a camera will be just as long, if not longer. For
those that don't lie flat, you will need to position them under glass.
That glass will need to be clean and dust free. It will need twin
illumination from 45 degrees off of each side (to eliminate any chance
of glare). Unless all of the photos are exactly the same size, you
will need to move the camera closer or farther away (if not change
lens focal length). Your camera will need to be perfectly
perpendicular to the image and directly centered. All of this is a big
pain in the patootie to do repeatedly.The camera could be placed on an
enlarger chassis to crank up and down for filling the frame, but the
center line changes as you change elevation so you still need to mess
with that. Also, it is hard to chimp the LCD screen without a
reticulating LCD (or perhaps the use of a mirror) as the camera gets
too high for you. You could work on the floor, but that's a lot of up
and down. Pick your poison.
The scanner takes care of much of that for you. Good ones are not
terribly expensive. I highly recommend the Epson Perfection V600 Photo
(or one of it's kin). With its optionally lighted lid and negative
carrier you can even use them to scan film or slides. The newer
scanners are lightning fast compared to older ones (which you may have
or be used to).
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:01 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure that changes to copyright law have made all of this quite
complicated, however, if you own the original slide, you have defacto
copyright. If there is no commercial value to the image it won't be in
anyone's interest to challenge it.
On 1/20/2015 1:18 PM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
Odd copyright question first.
Some many years ago, my late father was mildly into photography.
A friend of his copied a picture of a mutual acquaintance (no idea who he
was) which dated from the '30s on slide film, sometime in the early '60s.
This friend died about ten years later, and his son wanted to sell on all
the camera equipment, which my father bought.
I inherited my father's camera equipment and was left with his own
photographic collection, and the collection of slides, about 80 or so,
including this one I mention above, he bought with the camera equipment in
the probate sale of his friend. Most of the camera equipment was sadly
long
ago sold.
Now I have no commercial intention for any of them, although I might be
tempted to put one or two up on a personal website at a future date - but
who owns the copyright? In particular, the image of a photo taken in the
'30s which was copied in the '60s to slide film - and no doubt I will copy
this again to a digital image sometime in 2015. I have no way of tracking
any of them, none of them may now be alive in any case, and money changed
hands for the slides and equipment. Any ideas? I assume I'm OK to use
them.
Secondly, copying old B&W photos.
I have a box of these to do, and some over the years have begun to curl,
but
the images are OK. Most of the negs are too far gone or missing. My first
thought was to scan them, but it would be a long job and it's not a great
scanner. I wonder if it would be better to set up a copy stand and use the
camera and tripod to capture each photograph, possibly under a piece of
glass to hold them flat and in position. The bulk of these were taken by
my
father and they still have some writing on the back, and really I want to
preserve these digitally. Does that sound a better option?
Malcolm
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