What Peter said. Vuescan is great, and a real deal for the price. I haven’t found anything that works better or has more flexibility for setting up workflows with a scanner.
Dad moved over the Ektachrome in the late 50s, early 60s, and the emulsion on those really took a beating from the projector lamp and storage. Many of them were faded and washing out, nowhere near as badly as the Kodachrome slides. Thank goodness for cardboard slide mounts and the date stamps the processors used at the time. With Dad long gone and Mom not so good when I was doing this it was a big help keeping things relatively together. I used to shoot Kodachrome in medium format. Amazing colors and range, not to mention archival stability if stored properly. Fuji had some good slide emulsions in 120/220 as well, despite being somewhat blue shifted like Ektachrome. Dan > On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Haha, my mother and I have thousands of images, many of them quite old (she > started taking pictures during WWII, and started using Kodachrome in 1949). > > The black and white are OK, although the camera tended to leak light, so some > of them are a pain, but the old Kodachromes are a real pain -- some of them > have failing base, so they are warped and if the lacquer has cracked, they > are faded as well. Overexposures are serious trouble as they contain excess > silver and are VERY dense. > > Worse are the Agfachrome slide, she switched in the early 60s because the > color was better (and I agree -- at the time), but since they are not > lacquered, they have faded badly. This is a known issue, but it makes for > lots of extra work. > > I've been slowly grinding through the pile, I'll need to get to work again > this winter. I'm up to the 1950s now. The slowness is compounded by the > method of "sorting" my mother uses -- she pulls out all the pics of some > person or place and stashes them in cardboard boxes, in any old order and > most of the early stuff is undated, so I have had to spend an enormous amount > of time trying to get things in date sequence so I can make some sort of > catalog. > > Use vuescan -- it's a pain to get it working well, but nearly all of the > other manufacturer's products have less flexibility. It's also platform > independent, and finding software you can use for older scanners is a real > problem these days. > > Peter > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
