Good to hear you've got the negs. But I'm glad I misunderstood and went
off in pursuit of Ctein's pebble finish removal process. I'd never have
guessed that noise removal software could recognize such a large,
regular feature like pebble grain in photo paper as noise and then
remove it.
Some folks is just plain smarter then me.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Funny you should mention that. Just yesterday the mailman brought my
>> copy of Ctein's just released "Digital Restoration from Start to
>> Finish". I haven't read much of it yet but enough to know that removal
>> of textured paper grain is something he specifically addresses.
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Restoration-Start-Finish-photographs/dp/0240808142/sr=8-1/qid=1167910013/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3192476-2323027?ie=UTF8&s=books>
>> At $26.37 it's a good deal from Amazon and the price is just high enough
>> that it qualifies for free shipping.
>>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear. The thread, as I understood it, was about
> viewing film images vs. digital. I agreed with Winsor about the
> unsatisfactory nature of viewing slides with light box vs. viewing
> digital/digitized images with a proper image browser. I then extended my
> view of the problem to negative film, saying that viewing the film was
> useless and the extant prints were often close to useless.
>
> In my case, at least, the vast majority of the negatives are still here,
> so restoration efforts on prints aren't necessary. Even the old family
> album from my childhood is in good shape. When my mother put it
> together, she kept the negs under the prints. Most prints at that time
> were contact size, so the negs just fit nicely in the paste on corners
> under the print. Old acid free black album paper, so the negs are like new.
>
> Here's a comparison of a scan from a faded color print of a young Moose
> vs. a scan of the neg stored under it. Color could be corrected, of
> course, but the detail couldn't
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Misc/Comp02.jpg>.
>
> Thanks for the info anyway. I'm storing it away for future reference.
>
> Moose
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