Depends on your definition of fun ;) I had to rescan about half of them because the preview on my scanner software was lying to me about the RGB values when I had to use negative values in the exposure slider. Then there were the Dufaycolor ones.
The photos themselves are fascinating though. Cheers, Dave On Aug 10, 2014, at 4:49 am, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting collection of photos, David. Scanning them must have been fun! > > Mark > > On 7/29/2014 7:30 PM, David Mann wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
