OT - Image repair

2007-09-22 Thread John Graves
Given the number of OT's, I think it ok to add to the mix. Leroy Whitter is my great great grandfather and the person for whom my Grandfather was named. Although everyone who really know my Grandfather called him Roy, a source of great merriment to my siblings and cousins. Leroy Whittier

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-22 Thread Cotty
On 22/09/07, John Graves, discombobulated, unleashed: > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhg2/1423880415/ > > >I am able to pull up some detail using a transparent inversion layer. >Is there a next step pulling detail out this? Great Scott! (Or should that be Great Leroy!!) You need one of those

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-22 Thread mike wilson
John Graves wrote: > Given the number of OT's, I think it ok to add to the mix. Leroy > Whitter is my great great grandfather and the person for whom my > Grandfather was named. Although everyone who really know my > Grandfather called him Roy, a source of great merriment to my siblings >

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread John Graves
Mike, If only the world worked the way we think it should. My brother found the obit in the Boston Public Library as a microfilm copy of the paper. The Library doesn't retain newspapers after they have been microfilmed. The film company does the filming in return for copy rights and supplies

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread John Graves
Cotty, Don't you mean shifty nits John Cotty wrote: > Great Scott! (Or should that be Great Leroy!!) > > You need one of those nifty bits of software they use on CSI. That would > do it ;-) > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread mike wilson
John Graves wrote: > Mike, > > If only the world worked the way we think it should. My brother found > the obit in the Boston Public Library as a microfilm copy of the paper. > The Library doesn't retain newspapers after they have been microfilmed. > The film company does the filming in ret

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:40:31PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: > John Graves wrote: > > > Mike, > > > > If only the world worked the way we think it should. My brother found > > the obit in the Boston Public Library as a microfilm copy of the paper. > > The Library doesn't retain newspapers aft

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread P. J. Alling
Climate control was quite rudimentary for most of the last 200 years and many old newspapers, even those printed on cheap pulp paper in the last century were still quite readable when they were replaced with microfilm and microfiche. John Francis wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:40:31PM +010

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-23 Thread graywolf
Not really, most libraries only keep the paper copies until the microfiche, or CD, copies come out. In fact many just use an internet service for such things. Most non-research libraries do not keep much of anything old anymore. Of course the Library of Congress probably has a couple of original

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-24 Thread Cotty
On 23/09/07, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: >I'm sure the librarians would *love* to retain paper copies indefinitely. >Unfortunately in the real world somebody has to pay for all that climate >controlled storage spage, and what the librarians would like to do doesn't >come very high on

RE: OT - Image repair

2007-09-24 Thread Bob W
> > >I'm sure the librarians would *love* to retain paper copies > indefinitely. > >Unfortunately in the real world somebody has to pay for all > that climate > >controlled storage spage, and what the librarians would like > to do doesn't > >come very high on the list of spending priorities. >

Re: OT - Image repair

2007-09-24 Thread John Sessoms
From: mike wilson > John Graves wrote: > >> Given the number of OT's, I think it ok to add to the mix. Leroy >> Whitter is my great great grandfather and the person for whom my >> Grandfather was named. Although everyone who really know my >> Grandfather called him Roy, a source of great merr

OT Image Repair V2

2007-09-24 Thread John Graves
Ok, Gentlemen and Ladies, Here is the best I can do by reducing contrast. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhg2/ Is this the endpoint? John -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT Image Repair V2

2007-09-25 Thread Perry Pellechia
John, An image like yours with missing or erroneous data is where techniques like maximum entropy (maxent) or maximum likely hood algorithms are necessary to reconstruct the missing bits. I have no real experience or suggestions but if I wanted to fix this image I would start researching this ar

Re: OT Image Repair V2

2007-09-25 Thread David Savage
I'd recommend posting it to one of the various retouching forums (such as DPReview) There are some real wizards out there who I've seen rescue some really badly damaged photos. Cheers, Dave On 9/25/07, Perry Pellechia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > An image like yours with missing or erro