I just scanned 30 60-year-old BW prints for a magazine article. Used my Epson 500 then fine tuned them in PhotoShop. Excellent results. > On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
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