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photomao Senior Member & Contributor Registered: April 2007 Location: Spokane, WA, USA Posts: 356 users gallery	Barbara is working at making new shots look old and here I am trying to make old shots look new. This is a reversed scan of one of the prizes in my vintage photo collection, a glass plate negative. I uncovered it while going through a box of photos I won at an auction and was quite happy. I estimate it to be 100 years old, maybe a little more. The women's white blouses say 19-0-something to me.
	· Date: Wed August 27, 2008 · Views: 112 · Filesize: 106.4kb · Dimensions: 700 x 540 ·
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	Keywords: antique portrait
	Camera: A big 'un I'm guessing
	Lens: A little on at the end of an accordion-thing
	Photo Medium: glass plate negative, 4X6 inches(?)
	Shutter Speed and F-Stop: slow and small
	Setup For Image: OK, nobody smile!
	Location: The past
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shutterman

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Registered: January 2007
Posts: 114

Thu August 28, 2008 9:15am

Didn't you use to work with these peeps?

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RBSinTo
Senior Member

Registered: August 2005
Location: Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 341

Thu August 28, 2008 9:27am

Actually, this is a shot of the Quality Assurance Team at the Nikon factory that passed my cameras when they were new.

Russ

Senior Member

Registered: October 2005
Location: Tacoma, WA area
Posts: 171

Thu August 28, 2008 6:18pm

They're a rather somber looking group. I also think its a little CW tilted. There looks to be a few dust specs to cleanup but otherwise looks to be in remarkable condition. How in the world did you convert this from glass plate to digital???

photomao

Senior Member & Contributor

Registered: April 2007
Location: Spokane, WA, USA
Posts: 356

Thu August 28, 2008 9:12pm

Somber-looking, yes, but remember that they were using some pretty long exposures in studio cameras and it's harder to hold a smile. I left this one tilted to maximize the coverage of the original. I haven't tried to clean up most of my scans of vintage items for "production" but the masters are archived. I scanned it on my Epson 1600 Expression using a its dedicated full-size transparency adapter.

Mike

BER

Administrator & Contributor

Registered: December 2006
Location: British Columbia Canada
Posts: 650

Fri August 29, 2008 12:58pm

Excellent work, Mike!!! I bet this looks better than the original print made from the negative.

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