Re: [photo-3d] Digest Number 551

[Bob Aldridge <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 12/4/2001 9:56 am, John A. Rupkalvis wrote (referring to my post about
digitally restoring Pat Whitehouse's "Tribute to Handel":


> A very good approach.  There is one thing you might want to consider, now
> that you have successfully restored these slides.  That is going back to the
> originals and attempt removing the glass and manually cleaning one or two of
> these.  You really don't have much to lose, since you have the restoration,
> and if you just leave them the mold will continue to grow, eventually
> destroying them completely.

Well, yes, I had thought about that - and it'll probably fall to Colin Clay
to undertake the un-mount, clean, re-mount process. I will already have
invested many hours into the production of the new digital masters, and
there are many other projects that I want to tackle! :-)
 
> If you are successful in this effort, you then would have the confidence to
> try to "save" the originals, which then in turn could be used for future
> restorations when the restoration process is even further improved.  Sort of
> like Disney and a few other studios have done, whereby they restore an old
> film, and then restore it again when the technology for doing so improves.

Yes - those were my thoughts, too. And there will probably emerge someone
who will be able to do an even better restoration than I'm doing. Hey - I'm
no expert! 
 
> I recall seeing something in a Kodak publication on removing mold and
> cleaning film, as while as in the Photo Lab Index, as well as other books
> and periodicals.

The mould and spots isn't really _that_ bad - it just shows up more on the
scans than by normal viewing methods. And I haven't used an automatic
retouching method (ICE etc) because I wanted the highest resolution
available in a desktop (read: affordable!) scanner and the Poaroid SS4000
doesn't have an Infrared channel...

In the future - REAL soon, now - the 4000 DPI scanners will ave this
technology at a reasonble price...

Bob Aldridge
Technical Manager
The Stereoscopic Society



 

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