Focus on the Positive...but Develop from the Negatives

I l♥ve the experience of imaging old photographs and negatives, as well as learning about vintage audio, video, and photographic mediums. It's handling a part of history that relates to what I do and who I am.  Saturday was an interesting day of historical photography for me. I have been working on imaging these 8x10 black and white glass negatives, which glass ones I have done in the past were always much smaller. At the end of the day, a few tintypes were brought in (Civil War era). It's been a year or so since I last handled any. There was a rush order to scan 126 negatives, (which the lady was told were 110s). I have actually been imaging a lot of both negs rece ntly, but the lady was happy to find someone who could do it. They were of her mom's wedding, which they never knew existed, and she started crying when she saw the 4x4 prints! I also learned more about developing times and dilution rates for various B&W films. Plus, first thing, I fixed my f...

Before there was "Be kind, please rewind" My recent project has been converting a radio news broadcast clip recorded on 8-track in the early 1970s to digital format. I am old enough to know eight-track cartridges play in a loop and won't rewind, but I learned the time length of the loops and the technical aspect of how switching "tracks" worked.