Darren's old photo find has finally spurred me into action... Back in February I scanned a box of old glass slides (B&W positives sandwiched in glass) from the Empire Parliamentary Delegation to Australia in 1926. My mother-in-law had asked me if I could do anything with them and I managed to rig something up with my medium format film scanner (Minolta Multi Pro). The slides are a strange size - about 83mm square with an image up to 70mm square (usually masked with a border).
There are a handful of colour photos mixed in there which are not part of the Australia collection; those are Dufaycolor slides which are fascinating under a microscope but utterly horrible to scan. It looks like those ones were taken in NZ. I was wanting to put them online but with 72 files I wasn't really sure how best to present them. In the end I've taken a lazy approach and thrown them into a jAlbum gallery. The photos are presented in the order they were stored in the box. Note I haven't done anything about dust. http://www.multi.net.nz/empire/ The photo captions are mostly what's written on the slides, except for the number which is their position in the box. They might not be correct; being handwritten and quite small they're difficult to read. A book accompanies the slides but it's packed in a box somewhere. If it contains more info I'll update the gallery. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
