From: Janet Hubbard (imaginethat@portgualala.com)
Date: 04/18/00-03:59:16 AM Z
I actually also have an old contact printer which I understood could use
contact paper? Would need to get someone to show me how locally. Hadn't
thought of that solution. Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Niedermayer [mailto:pam_pine@cape.com]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 2:02 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Old glass negatives
I'd recommend contact printing them to start. You could do
it without setting up the enlarger, but you would need trays
for developing the contact prints? Scanning them can be a
reasonable facsimile if you have a good scanner.
Or, if the negatives aren't huge, it probably wouldn't be
that expensive for a lab to do it for you.
Then, evaluate the contact prints.
Pam
Janet Hubbard wrote:
> ...
> Now that he's died I'm left with every negative he ever took (literally)
as
> well as much of his equipment. However, the darkroom and the associated
> equipment was sold several years ago. Now I have the cameras and the
prints
> and negs. Although I have his Durst enlarger which I'm selling, I don't
have
> any facilities for setting up a darkroom here. Nor do I have the time to
> handle photography at that level.
>
> I've discovered a small box about 10 inches high of old glass negatives.
Not
> having a working darkroom, I'm trying to be creative in looking at and
> printing from these. I've tried scanning them on my relatively new HP
> ScanJet 6200C scanner and then reversing it to a positive in Adobe
> PhotoDeluxe. It works well enough to get a good idea what's there although
I
> haven't moved it to the computer with the good printer on it yet. Is there
> an easier way to do this? (short of paying a professional lab to print
them)
>
> My main problem is that these negatives were perhaps stored on the floor
of
> a building that was flooded many years ago. Some of them are quity muddy.
> Others seem to have mildew/mold on them.
> ...
-- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 1221 S. Congress Ave., #1225 Austin, TX 78704 512-416-1141 512-416-1440 fax http://www.pinehill.com
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