I've mentioned before that I plan to scan the old family albums, both
from when I was a kid and when my kids were young. A lengthy project,
but I'm in no big hurry.
Anyway, in most cases, I have the original negatives for the prints. My
mother carefully put the negs in her album behind the prints. All on old
fashioned acid free pages. So I just tried film vs. neg scans of a
couple of photos. The first try of a 6x7 B&W neg from when I was a month
old only showed a rather subtle difference between scans of the neg and
the contact print, mostly just a little better tonality and a tiny bit
more detail. The second test, of a shot of me and my brothers when I was
9, is quite a different story. The old color print is pretty faded, but
beyond that, quite soft. The 6x6 color neg is both much sharper with
more detail, but rather unfaded. So here's a pic of a young Moose
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Comp02.jpg>. I already had a camera
by then, a Brownie Hawkeye TLR. I don't recall what was used for this shot.
The other thing this test showed is that the graininess of the film of
that time is such that the 2400 dpi I used is more than enough for the
job. Now all I have to do is get a scanner that will do more than 35mm
size film. Looks like an Epson 3170 or 4180. I'm sure the 3170 is more
than enough scanner, but it's hard to keep from buying the latest.
Moose
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