Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Susan and Jim, thanks! I'm scanning with a Canon FS-4000 and VueScan. I scan at full resolution and 48 bits with multiple-exposure passes and the lightest of 3 IR cleaning settings. IR cleaning doesn't completely work with Kodachrome but the lightest setting helps a bit with some dirt and scratches, and doesn't do noticeable damage. Then I pull the 48-bit TIFF into Picture Window Pro. I clone out the remaining crud that will be visible at Web size, do a curve adjust if need be, and save a 24-bit TIFF. I generally don't mess too much with white balance unless it's really off--I want the pictures to look like Kodachrome. Then I reduce to screen size JPG and sharpen a bit. My standards are probably a bit lower than Tina's as the pictures are for family history, not stock sales. But if I see one I really like, I go all-out. The shot of me in the sink was one of those, I going to print that one. Tina's recent posts on scanning got me thinking about trying scanning to Raw or DNG and using Capture One, but right now I was eager to get into the pictures, so I used the process I know. I may try cleaning the slides with Isopropyl alcohol--that has worked before, but I didn't want to risk damaging any of the most precious slides. Mark, yes, the indoor shots are with flash. The Bolsey B2 had a companion flash unit with about a five-inch reflector. I think it took two C-cell batteries. I don't know if I still have the flash or not. It was big compared to the camera, and it took bulbs that you pushed in and turned a quarter turn to lock. I remember my mother used clear bulbs in the early days, plus a filter. Then in the 60s she switched to blue bulbs, which allows her to use daylight Kodachrome without a filter. Kodachrome is a miracle. The pictures look like they were taken last week, and they are 60 years old. --Peter Mark Rabiner wrote: > Did they use a flash which took type a flashbulbs?!? > Looks like it.! > > > On 1/17/14 12:24 AM, "Peter A. Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > > > I finally found "The Motherlode"--all the slides from my childhood. They > > were in the 27th box of 30 boxes left by my late parents. If you'd like > > to see some 1954 Kodachromes of me as a very wee lad, click on. > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11990571304/in/photostream/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11990188085/in/photostream/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11990999876/in/photostream/ > > > > Bolsey B2 rangefinder and Kodachrome (the original, ASA 10. Yes, I mean > > ten). I still have the camera. > > > > --Peter