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A Day of Digital Imaging Historical Photography

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 recently, 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 first 8mm videotape, reassembling it correctly!
During all that, I had audio cassette tapes recording onto a computer to edit and convert to CD. Oh, and I started a 11x14 recolorization of a scenic landscape in Spain due this week, which is a nice change of pace to the usual colorizing I do of people and portraits.
 
Gosh, that sounds like a crazy busy day, doesn't it? We were listing all the things employees do in general to a customer, and I added, "And, that was just today!"  ;-)  On days like that, I guess I really do make use of my multimedia degree!
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  1. UnknownMay 15, 2015 at 6:50 PM

    DVDs take up less space than 8mm tapes so you have plenty of room for more family video memories. There's no wonder why many people would love to have a copy of their 8mm tapes on DVD for easily view back anytime. DVD Duplicaion and CD Copies

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