That's a wonderful portrait, C.H. Is it your wife?
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:09 PM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All old negatives have certain amount of color fading, it may not easy to
> restore the color with optical printing process. Scanning the negs with a
> good flatbed is the best way, my Epson 4870 do a fine job with MF negatives.
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/1994-01_10s.jpg (Bronica, SQA with 645
> back, 150mm?).
>
> Scaning color negs with digital camera is difficult to get the color
> right. After hundreds of scans I still prefer to use scanner.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Forget all the nonsense about scanning and the kludgy efforts to do so. It
>>> will look like crap. Get real optical RA-4 color prints made from the
>>> negs. Scan the prints on a flatbed if you must but at least get real
>>> (optical / RA4) prints made. Otherwise, the quality will never be there,
>>> short of a drum scan.
>>>
>>
>> I absolutely agree! Have glossy prints made, though.
>>
>> It is probably Kodak Portra 400 film. This film produced very nice
>> skintones, but usually needed to be overexposed a tiny bit. that would
>> help bring skintones up and provide good background separation, what
>> it means is that the negatives are a little more dense in the
>> highlights than what most scanners or digitizing processes can deal
>> with. Skintones will all turn Pepto-Bismo pink as a result. If he was
>> an old-timer, he was likely still shooting it like he shot Vericolor,
>> and derated the film by up to a full stop.
>>
>> If you do decide to digitize them yourself, do it with a good scanner
>> with transparancy adaptor. But I think you are much better served if
>> you have a lab process them to small prints and even have them do the
>> scanning themselves.
>>
>> I really doubt that the photographer would have taken all that many
>> pictures. Most of us in that era topped out at 10 rolls of film.
>>
>
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