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Re: [OM] IMG: Image from 1912, Gear Unknown

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Image from 1912, Gear Unknown
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:47:06 +1300
Ken wrote
> > Well done.  Will our digital images survive as well?
> 
> A print is a print is a print. As long as the image is printed it has a
> chance of survival. A box of scratched CDRs has as much a chance of being
> printed 50 years from now as a box of 50-year old scratched negatives.
> 
> AG

I copied many B&W prints for our 2006 family re-union website, and also for 
some old-school sites.
I used the E-1 and manual Zuiko macro 50/3.5
I have been amazed at the detail this combination can retrieve from even 
blown-out prints - stored away carefully in old shoe boxes and the like.

http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/InstitutionPhotoView.aspx?id=112625
I saw the print of this again just the other day. It is barely 2 inches wide.

http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/InstitutionPhotos.aspx?institution=10849
The top two links.
This 1932? large print has my grandfather and his brother in it. I split in two 
do create legible details .
After I posted these, came the deluge !! A whole host of images.

I don't know if these links will work for non-members. If not, I apologise.

And two from my own family history pages.
The top one was from a tiny, dreadful, print.
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/Thomas-W&Marjorie-
Swale.htm
I was even able to drag out of the print some detail of the embroidery on the 
bride's mother's dress; this was quite invisible to the naked eye. Doesn't 
show too well on this rather small web image.

This one is of my parent's wedding - a studio photograph print
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/images/Jim&May-Swale2.htm

Brian Swale. 
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