Apr 26, 2013 | photo restoration |
The hunting trip If you had the money, you booked your transport and gathered a few mates and, off hunting you will go. These were times of men, showing they were “real men” and what they could do and what “trophies” they could shoot. Just some...
Apr 6, 2013 | photo restoration |
From time to time I get some interesting photos to restore. Wednesday I took delivery of some old photographic glass plates. They came in these lovely boxes. Two sizes of plates 5x4 inches and 7x5 inches. Both Kodak and Ilford plates, the Kodak selling point was...
Nov 29, 2012 | Genealogy |
During my chosen educational path, I chose photography. It was something I thought I was good at. My first camera was at around 14 or 15 when I bought a Minolta 35mm SLR. I took loads of images with this camera but it wasn’t until I started my BA in photography...
Jun 10, 2012 | photo restoration |
My previous post was a quick image of a Paterson contact printer made of Bakelite used for printing large negatives, which leads me nicely to this post. I restored two very large negatives recently. They were a non-standard size of 6.5 inches by 4.5 inches image below...