bmattock
Veteran
NOTE: Forgive the cross-post, I put this on Photo.net as well. Just thought it was interesting.
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I received a small stack of glass-plate negatives in a recent purchase of 'stuff' on eBoy. I was purchasing from a gent in England - so I presume that these photos were taken there. I am guessing the era to be late 1800's to early 1900's, but I could be wrong. Just a guess based on the clothes, etc.
The boxes that the glass plates came in are marked "The Imperial Dry Plate Co., Ltd., Cricklewood, London, N.W.2. It has developing directions for "PYRO-SODA" and "STANDARD" developing on the top of the boxes.
Anyway, these plates were pretty crufty. Dirty, with actual dirt on the emulsion side of the glass in some cases. The non-emulsion sides were pretty nasty too, although I could clean those up somewhat. There was obviously some chenistry still about - I can feel my fingers burning a bit - will go wash up presently.
I scanned these on an Epson PHOTO Perfection 2400 with the 4x5 neg scanning adapter from Epson. I just placed the (approx) 106mm x 82mm plates emulsion-side down on the scanning glass top. I thought I might have a problem with focus or Newton Rings, but I don't appear to have had.
I scanned with Vuescan/Linux and processed the scans in The Gimp. I scanned them in as color negatives, generic everything, and saved as TIF files. I kept the color cast that some of them were given by scanning them this way - others I turned back into B&W again by desaturating in The Gimp. I resized for the web and applied a small amount of USM. I did not try to touch up any damage, but they scanned pretty well. I scanned at 600 dpi, except for our cross-dressing friend, whom I scanned again at 2400 dpi to be able to crop to his face. Actually 'he' could be a 'she' but frankly, he looks like a drunken college frat boy on a lark. Did they have 'Spring Break' back then?
Anyway, hope you enjoy. I feel pretty weird, invading people's memories like this, but I have to guess that these folks are all dead and gone now, and this may well be all that's left of them. More than some of us get, eh?
Victorian Cross Dressers?
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
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I received a small stack of glass-plate negatives in a recent purchase of 'stuff' on eBoy. I was purchasing from a gent in England - so I presume that these photos were taken there. I am guessing the era to be late 1800's to early 1900's, but I could be wrong. Just a guess based on the clothes, etc.
The boxes that the glass plates came in are marked "The Imperial Dry Plate Co., Ltd., Cricklewood, London, N.W.2. It has developing directions for "PYRO-SODA" and "STANDARD" developing on the top of the boxes.
Anyway, these plates were pretty crufty. Dirty, with actual dirt on the emulsion side of the glass in some cases. The non-emulsion sides were pretty nasty too, although I could clean those up somewhat. There was obviously some chenistry still about - I can feel my fingers burning a bit - will go wash up presently.
I scanned these on an Epson PHOTO Perfection 2400 with the 4x5 neg scanning adapter from Epson. I just placed the (approx) 106mm x 82mm plates emulsion-side down on the scanning glass top. I thought I might have a problem with focus or Newton Rings, but I don't appear to have had.
I scanned with Vuescan/Linux and processed the scans in The Gimp. I scanned them in as color negatives, generic everything, and saved as TIF files. I kept the color cast that some of them were given by scanning them this way - others I turned back into B&W again by desaturating in The Gimp. I resized for the web and applied a small amount of USM. I did not try to touch up any damage, but they scanned pretty well. I scanned at 600 dpi, except for our cross-dressing friend, whom I scanned again at 2400 dpi to be able to crop to his face. Actually 'he' could be a 'she' but frankly, he looks like a drunken college frat boy on a lark. Did they have 'Spring Break' back then?
Anyway, hope you enjoy. I feel pretty weird, invading people's memories like this, but I have to guess that these folks are all dead and gone now, and this may well be all that's left of them. More than some of us get, eh?
Victorian Cross Dressers?
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
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bmattock
Veteran
LOL! Pelicans? Hahahaha. Oh, I'm such a nature boy.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
Wayne R. Scott
Half fast Leica User
Bill,
Isn't that Prince Charle's fiancee on her college graduation day?
Wayne
Isn't that Prince Charle's fiancee on her college graduation day?
Wayne
bmattock
Veteran
Now that's just mean! LOL!