[rollei_list] Re: Trying to restore Kodachromes taken 50 years ago
- From: "Evan Dong" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "ejdong@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 05:26:41 -0700
Carlos,
If these Kodachrome images are the ones you scan in, then I see that you did a
good job considering its age. They all look veryu good,
They have the same similar look as my uncle's imaghes from the West Indies
during the late 1950s into late 1960s.
He scan in his image using a Canon FS4000US film scanner. Time consuming, but
preserving his life legacy.
Evan
On , Evan Dong <ejdong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 8:21 AM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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