[rollei_list] Trying to restore Kodachromes taken 50 years ago
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:20:06 -0300
One of my sisters found a box containing some K 14 35mm Kodachrome
slides taken by my father between 1958 and 1962, the box also
contained some E-6 35mm Ektachrome slides taken by me when I was 16
and 17 years old (1972/73). We believed all these old slides were lost
and, in fact, most of them are lost, but these few slides in the
little box have some of the magic from the old times, when, as
fascinated kids and teenagers, watched the projected images .
The slides show very faded colors, dust, scratches and some units have
fungus and humidity stains too, anyway four or five Kodachromes look
pretty good, I don't know the cause for the difference, they are from
the same time, same lab an were kept in the same box.
I'm scanning them using the infrared cleaning option, Vuescan works
fine for the purpose, at least a lot better than the Epson Digital ICE
software. Vuescan eliminates most of the scratches and dust; BTW, it
can not solve problems if the image was destroyed in the emulsion
itself.
The scanning software options to restore faded colors and chromatic
losses hardly work to improve the image quality for these cases, most
of the slides need very much work with levels and curves; I'm
having some acceptable results for a few slides but others are beyond
my limited skills and knowledge, I think I'll convert them into Blank
and White images.
Carlos
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