Thanks. The entire photo was pretty much like that except the outside
edges. It was wondrous to the woman who owned the photo since it was
the only existing photo of her grandparents.
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Nice job.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:05 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Old cameras, photos and restoration [was which one ?]
>
>
>> This is the photo that had all the cracks. The inset shows what the
>> original looked like. <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/restoration.php>
>>
>> Aunt Annie's wedding dinner photo really is amazing on many levels.
>> There is no way the DOF could be so great on a large format camera
>> unless the camera was capable of tilt or swing. Also, given the small
>> apertures of a large camera, the slow speed of film of the day and no
>> apparent subject motion I would have to assume that flash was used.
>> However, I can't find much indication of that in the shadows although
>> there certainly is some (see, especially, the lower left corner).
>> Another amazing point is that I can't find anyone blinking. I can find
>> a few women not looking at the camera who may have their eyes closed but
>> no one looking at the camera whose eyes are not open. Makes me wish I
>> could talk to that photographer.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Moose wrote:
>>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> As to dealing with multitudes of scratches I would suggest reading Ctein
>>>> in his "Digital Restoration From Start to Finish". Chapter 8 of the
>>>> book has almost 25 pages of detailed methods of efficiently dealing with
>>>> scratches. I haven't had any real need for the techniques there since I
>>>> bought the book but I wish I'd had it for the last serious piece of
>>>> restoration work I did.
>>> I've got some old photos that I mean to restore one of these days, so
>>> it's good to have a strong recommendation for a reference source for
>>> technique.
>>>> It was an 8x10 glossy photo from the late 40's or early 50's which had
>>>> been rolled into a tight curl. That introduced what I think must have
>>>> been thousands of tiny cracks in the emulsion... plus some not so tiny
>>>> ones where chunks of the emulsion were falling off.
>>> I recently dealt with a similar situation, but not as bad. Carol Anne's
>>> Aunt Annie is a wonderful old lady whom we visit whenever in NY. She has
>>> this really amazing photo from her wedding dinner. It's technically
>>> amazing for the DOF and sharpness right out to the corners. It's an
>>> amazing image because of the great wealth of characters captured having
>>> a great time in Brooklyn shortly after the war. I can stare at the
>>> details for a long time.
>>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Miscellaneous&image=_MG_3214-17bii.jpg>
>>>
>>> Although I had seen it before, and wanted to copy/restore it, there was
>>> no way it was leaving the house, let alone traveling to Calif. So last
>>> year I went prepared. I ended up with tripod on Annie's kitchen table
>>> after lunch, books on the corners of the print, with 5D and 90mm macro
>>> lens. I took several shots, and ended up combining two covering the full
>>> height and part of the width each. A full pixel detail is here.
>>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Miscellaneous&image=_MG_3214-17bfp1ii.jpg>
>>>
>>> I had wondered what kind of camera was used. I think my question has
>>> been answered by a link Andrew posted.
>>>
>>> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>>> ... Does the Folmer and Schwing swing, I wondered - doesn't look like
>>>> it. So I found this - http://www.clickondavid.com/folmerschwing2.html
>>>> ...
>>> I didn't know about these "banquet" cameras. Wiiide format HD isn't new
>>> at all. Looks to me like one was still in use in 1947.
>>>> I finally finished the work to my own satisfaction but it took me
>>>> about three months of off and on again part time work using the clone
>>>> tool... the only method I knew at the time.
>>> My project wasn't nearly so bad. The print had been rolled up tight in a
>>> tube, but the cracking wasn't all that bad. Perhaps the semi-matte
>>> finish was tougher, or storage had been more felicitous.
>>>
>>> Moose
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