Magazine Negatives

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bpr81a
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Magazine Negatives

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I recently bought some negatives on e-bay (makes a change from cars :lol: )

These are 5" x 4" glass negatives (that's inches, none of your new fangled measurements here). According to the seller, these were magazine quality photographs of a Morris Minor Convertible.

I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to print these, and that they'd join the parts microfiche in the 'nice to have but can't do much with' category, but after playing around with scanner and photoshop they come out quite well.

The envelopes the live in have "Road Test" and a reference number typed on them. After doing a little browsing through my library, I found 3 of them in a 1959 Motor road test article.

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Sorry - black and white only!

I need to clean the negs (carefully) and rescan them. With a little work with brightness and contrast i should be able to get some reasonable prints.

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Re: Magazine Negatives

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Post them bigger!
Even my pictures are bigger than that, and purists will want to check every little detail :)

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Re: Magazine Negatives

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Actually, that's pretty much the actual size of the negatives. The scan's are about 2500x2000 pixels, so way too big to post. I'll have to work something out once I've cleaned and rescanned them

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Re: Magazine Negatives

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Well done :D
Cheers Alex
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Re: Magazine Negatives

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They don't look 5" x 4" from here! Cracking pictures though.
Don't listen to the 640x480 ancient wisdom from the days of 486s and dial up connections.

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Re: Magazine Negatives

Post by alexandermclaren »

lambrettalad wrote:Well done :D
yes well done
thank you for sharing them with the forum

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