Nice work, Brian. I have copied a few that date from the 1890s. Despite
some discoloration, they have held up pretty well.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Image from 1912, Gear Unknown
> 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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