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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
