Setting a Kodachrome slide free

[Gordon Coale]

I finally upgraded my scanner to an Epson V700. There are a lot of old slides I have that I've been wanting to scan. This picture is an early one of mine. In 1958 I was 13 and living in Japan. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Tachikawa AFB close to Tokyo. I spent the summer working on base and spent some of my hard earned money on a 35mm Petri rangefinder. That's also the one in my avatar. Not actually the same one. I gave the original one to a friend in the 1970s for parts. Dumb! Thanks to the miracle of eBay I have one just like it. That's the one in the picture. I think I paid $25 for it. The picture of the Japanese house was taken with thar little Petri, shooting Kodachrome, when I was 13. It's not that bad! The first scan I did was in the slide mount (third picture). The slide mount cropped the top of the roof. The slide was pretty dirty, too. I found some archival cardboard slide mounts at InkJet Art and already had some Pec-12 and Pec*Pads to clean with. After removing it from the slide mount, and cleaning it, it made a much nicer scan (fourth picture). Much more sky above the house. (There is less in the final photo because I rotated it a little.) Also, a lot less retouching! Just a few hundred boxes of slides left to go.

 

[Ash]

That's really nice. Must be quite nostalgic, but at the same time, thats a HELLUVA lot of pictures to clean and scan! Good luck 🙂

 

[stevew]

Petri

Petri

Hey Gordon,

That Petri has a red dot on it!!!!!😀

 

[darkkavenger]

Your photo is very nice, Gordon! I like the "it could've been taken today" feeling it gives.

I always had an attraction towards slides because the rendition of the color seems just as bright and alive as the day when you took the photography, a feeling that negative photos don't give me. Just a personal impression.