[rollei_list] Re: Trying to restore Kodachromes taken 50 years ago
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:21:10 -0300
OK, these are the first six samples, they were taken by my father
between 1958 and 1962 using a Voss Diax IIb rangefinder camera with a
Xenon Schneider 2/50 (coated), except for the last one, taken with a
WA lens Xenagon Schneider 3,5/35. My father sent these Kodachromes to
Kodak Argentina in Buenos Aires city for processing, however they sent
the Kodachromes to Kodak USA (according some versions to a giant
laboratory that Kodak had in the Panama channel zone, according other
versions, to Rochester directly); he received the processed slides
with their Kodak cardboard frames three months later.
Please, keep in mind these are color shots taken and processed about
55 years ago:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/sets/72157646242821302/
Carlos
PS: I changed some privacy settings for these six images, but I think
you'll see them without problems.
2014-08-06 12:20 GMT-03:00 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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