Faded Pictures from faded 35mm slides
May 3, 2021 19:42:56 #
edkolb wrote:
I scanned over 9000 slides, starting in 1952, a few years back with some very dark and barely recognizable.
I enhanced them on Photoshop Elements and was amazed at how the color came to life.
I enhanced them on Photoshop Elements and was amazed at how the color came to life.
May 3, 2021 22:24:03 #
Thanks. Is the second icon your unit crest? I was 82nd back in the day. Way back in the day.
May 4, 2021 01:46:11 #
drrobins
Loc: San Francisco East Bay (Walnut Creek)
I scanned a lot of slides, years ago. My own were mostly Kodachromes, which exhibited virtually no fading or color change. However, the Ektachromes did not fare quite as well. I did about 7,000.
I also scanned precious slides for my sister-in-law in Mexico, where Ektachromes has been stored in Kodak Carousels, no box, on the top shelf of a top floor closet in Mexico, in the heat. They mostly had virtually unusable images, faded to the point of almost being invisible, just a greenish smear. This was a few thousand slides.
My scanner was the Nikon Coolscan 5000 (no longer made but available second-hand online. I used the built-in Kodak ROC (Restoral of Color) option, as well as Digital ICE for dust and scratches. Each slide was analyzed by the built-in software and the results were amazing. The Kodachromes came out great, as expected, but the main was in the fades Ektachromes. Not perfect, all of them, but mostly made almost normal. I was blown away.
This means you don't have to hand-correct each slide, unless you had some that you wanted to improve further. The auto-feeder let me put a stack of 50 slides (mounts in good condition) and run all night. I used a 2 or 4 scan repeat sequence for better scans.
Unfortunately, you no longer have the original slides, so this information if not relevant for you, but more for others reading this. Sorry.
I also scanned precious slides for my sister-in-law in Mexico, where Ektachromes has been stored in Kodak Carousels, no box, on the top shelf of a top floor closet in Mexico, in the heat. They mostly had virtually unusable images, faded to the point of almost being invisible, just a greenish smear. This was a few thousand slides.
My scanner was the Nikon Coolscan 5000 (no longer made but available second-hand online. I used the built-in Kodak ROC (Restoral of Color) option, as well as Digital ICE for dust and scratches. Each slide was analyzed by the built-in software and the results were amazing. The Kodachromes came out great, as expected, but the main was in the fades Ektachromes. Not perfect, all of them, but mostly made almost normal. I was blown away.
This means you don't have to hand-correct each slide, unless you had some that you wanted to improve further. The auto-feeder let me put a stack of 50 slides (mounts in good condition) and run all night. I used a 2 or 4 scan repeat sequence for better scans.
Unfortunately, you no longer have the original slides, so this information if not relevant for you, but more for others reading this. Sorry.
May 4, 2021 20:38:11 #
My slide scanner also had an auto correct function that did work somewhat. Now I pick and choose those primary to remain as my history and will up the quality as best I can. Thx for your reply.
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