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I'm testing out a new scanner that allows me to scan the negatives of old photographs. This has allowed me to continue adding some of the old photographs my Dad took during the 1990's onto our fotopic site. I would be interested to hear if people think I have the setting right e.g. colour depth etc.

Bluebell Railway - September 1990



http://daniel-hamblin.fpic.co.uk/c1806982.html


East Wimbledon Depot 1991 Open Day



http://daniel-hamblin.fpic.co.uk/c1806984.html

Steam on the Brighton main line - December 1993



http://daniel-hamblin.fpic.co.uk/c1806989.html


The Mid-Hants Daylight Railtour 8th May 1994



http://daniel-hamblin.fpic.co.uk/c1806992.html

And last lot:

Swanage Railway - August 1994



http://daniel-hamblin.fpic.co.uk/c1806994.html


Regards,

Dan

I'm processing some work from the ELR today and hapen to be on the calibrated monitor..

First and second look v.good, there's issues with the black level on the 3rd and 4th but I suspect it existed in the original exposure or processing....
Are you using some sort of saturation though as some colours seem a little bit off.. Sometimes when scanning a negative you need to account of the type of film originally used..

That's interesting, because I am using Arcsoft Photostudio 5.5 which allows me to use a 'simple mode' to scan negatives in. On all the photos I have done I have ticked the 'Remove dust and scratches' plus 'Backlight correction' boxes, but the set that the third example shot belongs to I used an additional option 'Fading correction'.

The Brighton night shots are certainly poorly exposed on the original photographs and negatives - a combination of poor lighting conditions, a moving target and of course the camera technology at the time not being as good as it is now. Actually, now I come to think of it Dad was forced to change his camera at some point in the early 90's when it was stolen during a burglary on our house, perhaps that would account for the difference in later daylight shots.

The final picture is actually a crop of the original to bring 41708 into the centre of the shot, so there will have been a slight loss of quality.

That's a good bit of advice about the different film types - I will have to experiemnt more with the scanners advanced settings.

Thanks for your help

Regards,

Dan