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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