Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Glass Plates



We started to scan the glass plates today! Yes I said glass plates. These were used many moons ago with the view camera. There are hundreds of these things at the archives... hundreds. We are struggling a bit to find the best way to scan them, and there aren't any experts out there on the subject... well as far as I can find.

It was quite a scene when we switched the first image from neg to positive. The photo just comes to life. I'm hoping to get a few samples up here on my page so you can see what we are dealing with. We did a bunch of test scans.

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