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What to do with pre digital material?Slides and negatives, not prints.

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Posted by Robert: Sun Dec 23rd, 2018 14:45

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I am about to embark of a large task of photographing much of my collection of slides and negatives*.

What is to be done with the old material, destroy it to save space, or put it in boxes and store as backup.

*Duplicates, poor IQ and boring images excepted.

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Posted by Eric: Sun Dec 23rd, 2018 17:36

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Robert wrote:
I am about to embark of a large task of photographing much of my collection of slides and negatives*.

What is to be done with the old material, destroy it to save space, or put it in boxes and store as backup.

*Duplicates, poor IQ and boring images excepted.
I've kept all my negatives and trannies ( and edited movie film rolls) in sealed boxes in the loft. Not ideal ....but am I really going to use or work them up ever again??? I've got selected prints that were used in exhibitions and portfolios. EVERYTHING has been digitised. Sadly, much was done years ago when scanning quality was not as good as today. But I ain't doing it again.

All the digitised images are on external hard drives and we are working through them making hard decisions about individual worth...a little weeding so to speak to keep meaningful searching the archive sensible.

Of course all my commercial work is stored on other hard drives...in case customers coming knocking again :thumbs:

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Posted by Robert: Sun Dec 23rd, 2018 18:40

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Have been photographing slides my father took in 1965 for his lectures on flowers.

Thank heavens for dust on the slides, gives me something to focus on! LOL

The range of exposure on the Ectachrome's is alarming, I am going to try bracketing the exposure to try to get something better out of the slides, taken in bright sunlight with heavy shadows. The EV range of the film must have only been a third of the EV range it was trying to record..

This D800 is a dream, loving it, live view really works, can zoom in on tiny detail, brilliant.

Am sat on a stool feeding slides into the holder and snapping away quite merrily! :thumbs:

Just experimenting at present, need to set up a solid bench.

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Posted by Iain: Mon Dec 24th, 2018 07:29

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I've done the same as Eric. I have a pile of boxes that would take weeks to scan in to the computer.

Posted by Robert: Mon Dec 24th, 2018 07:53

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I took about 35 exposures yesterday evening. This morning I ran them into Lightroom, I was very impressed how quickly Lr dealt with them, they are NEF's, between 44 and 50 Mb each, I have created HDR's of several of the short sets which I created trying to discover the exposure range of each slide, usually 3 exposures per slide, not proper bracketing but me guessing each end of the range with one in the middle. Lr created the HDR's quite quickly, I am very impressed how lively the handling of these enormous files is. It doesn't seem any slower that it is with D3 NEF files.

Black flowers in shade with bright orange centres in sunlight would be a challenge even now, let alone with chrome's

Maybe it's the payoff for building such a powerhouse MacPro in the first place.

Maybe with more images per stack it will slow it down but I haven't really noticed that with the D3 NEF's. What does slow it down is poor images and differences in framing, but it still manages to come up with a solution.

What I'm not so happy about is the HDR output is .dng and about 150Mb per image. Not sure what that is all about, it's still the same resolution and essentially the same image, I think it's a fixed image, in other words not reversible, so I don't quite see why it should be so large. Need to look into that urgently.

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