Thorin, If your main goal is to preserve the images and do it at an
economical cost. I might suggest getting a good flatbed scanner and
start scanning them. Many people will agree that digital storage, if
done correctly, will outlast many films. The older traditional ways of
copying generally resulted in some loss in quality generally in the
contrast range. A studio I used to work at did a lot of copy work and
we spend a long time balancing films, using special chemistry and lots
of hand work. A good copy job and a print was around $50 in the 80's.
Most typical scanners on the market are pretty junky but once you
get some good scans, preserve them on gold CD's, store them correctly
you should be fine. The problem is that you probably have typical
'snapshots' that will never yield better than the original as far as
resolution is concerned. However, the digital version can be enhanced
and cleaned up with a skilled photoshop technician. Once you have a
good digital version all cleaned up and saved, those images can then be
used for slide shows (via PowerPoint) or for reproduction in historical
magazines etc. Lo resolution versions can then be made for web site
usage . Additional copies could be sold to recover your costs.
I don't know the lab you intend to use, but most labs that accept
work from amateurs (i.e. Walgreens, Sams, and many mail order labs) have
a really hit or miss record plus you know they use the cheapest
materials and will cut corners wherever possible.
Bob Werre
Marty.Thorin wrote:
>Good Morning:
> I have about 75 rolls of prints that were recovered from Iowa
>Trolley Park. (Some are in sad shape.) I will duplicate a number of
>these by putting a camera above the print and photographing the print.
>The photos are borderless. So how do I hold them flat for
>photographing? I am thinking of a vacuum table which would be a box
>where the top is a sheet of plastic with pin holes in it. A fan vents
>the box. Then I would put the photo on the plastic and it would be
>sucked flat. All of the photos are 'snapshots' of 3 * 4 to 4 * 6".
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>Anyone have any other suggestions on how else to duplicate about 200 (of
>about 1500) snapshots onto 35 mm film? (The film is then sent to
>PhotoWorks for processing. For each roll I get negatives, prints,
>slides, and a CD! Plus the CD has low, med, and high resolution!)
>
>Anyone have any suggestions on where to find a cheap vacuum table? I am
>not a professional photographer, just an amateur with a 35mm camera who
>needs it for a couple of weeks.
>
>Thorin
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