Practical guide to archival film scanning
@teapot wrote: 1) Celluloid degrades. New negatives might last hundreds of years, but 60 year old ones wont. A humble Archival CD stored in total darkness will last longer than your 'at-hand'...
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@teapot wrote: I'm trying to work out a better way to store photos. There's this high-tech thing called "folders" Mr bannana is right: get rid of icrud and apeturd. Even Adobe Bridge (which you get...
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@Richard_Rhys_Lewis wrote: Thanks for the guide, Dean! Several years back I bought myself an Epson Perfection 750V (basically the same as 700 you mention) to archive decades of my dad's family photos....
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@Skeptic wrote: teapot: A humble Archival CD stored in total darkness will last longer than your 'at-hand' negatives. A regular burned DVD-R starts to degrade in as little as a year. I've lost track...
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: Skeptic: I've lost track of how many "archived" DVDs I've had go bad. Totes concur. CD's are totally untrustworthy after a decade and I have digital images nearly twice as old...
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: Is your 110 still in the "canister" or is it more about getting it scanned? Read full topic
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@Jim_Kirk wrote: Very good guide. After my parents died I scanned more than 8,000 prints, negatives and slides, plus over 5,000 from my wife's family collection. I purchased an Epson Perfection 4870...
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@Ramone wrote: Right, but many people still have tabletop scanners whereas a good, high-quality DSLR is harder to come by. Which is why I appreciate this article. Read full topic
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@Ramone wrote: Thank you for your post Dean, this information is helpful. And for also tackling the issue with an eye for frugality! Read full topic
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@jerwin wrote: I wonder if anyone could give me some useful tips on how to correct the colors in this picture from 1970. I don't know if the negative can be found, and it's obviously of sentimental...
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Practical guide to archival film scanning
@Merzmensch wrote: Thank you for this post - I see I'm doing it in right way. My father was a journalist and photographer in Russia, he worked mostly with writers, actors and composers, so his photos...
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: What are your available resources, Photoshop? Lightroom? GIMP? MS Paint? Totally doable, and very quickly, feel free to PM me and I'll literally just drop the image behind...
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: Merzmensch: I don't use clouds, since 1) I don't trust them, and 2) my data is growing and I don't know such huge cloud I could save all the photos. Sure, Flickr has 1...
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@ChickieD wrote: My dad's been doing this with some old family negatives. He's not as tech savvy as he'd like to pretend, and is doing an awful job technically, but the big advantage to me of this...
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@ChickieD wrote: FYI, if you want an option for this type of thing that you can mess around with yourself, the free program Picasa has some great, easy to use corrections. The fill light option does...
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@Richard_Rhys_Lewis wrote: Oh, the 110 film's long ago processed, with prints, just trying to digitise the negs, as in the guide. Read full topic
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@jerwin wrote: Gimp, Aperture. Read full topic
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@jerwin wrote: It's not really the light that's the issue. It's the sickly green background, and the stange color cast. Read full topic
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@teapot wrote: My 2c: Don't waste your time with entry-level tools. No offence ChickieD but that is not a good retouch and Picasa is absolutely not better than photoshop at the things mentioned. It...
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@teapot wrote: Just noticed this bit. If you can perceive the colour imbalance then you want to use the "color balance" option in Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. You can notice in the...
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: Teapot's put you on the right track in all regards. Read full topic
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@SteampunkBanana wrote: I can only suggest sandwiching it between glass then to get it a few mm up and prevent curling. Read full topic
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@Merzmensch wrote: Thank you, I'll look up some secured clouds, as additional backup possibility. I just have some thoughts, what would happen, if the cloud provider implodes or closes its services......
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@mrBlaQ wrote: [I'm affiliated with none of the mentioned products] I've been scanning film for yars on an Epson V600 with SilverFast. The Digitaliza film holder/caddy has been an amazingly useful...
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