Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I have found a shop in the next village that will undertake this for me.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I have found a shop in the next village that will reproduce the photo for me. To honor the original studio, and to provide some historical information for future generations, I have decided to place the following information on the reverse of the copies: "Originally photographed by Willhelm Lenthard Photographie, St. Gallen, Switzerland, circa 1962. Reprinted in 2021."
larryepage wrote:
Did the studio you contacted offer any rational explanation for why they declined your work?
Perhaps because they did not know that the original photographer was no longer in business.
CHG_CANON wrote:
What you do with your own scanner, in your own home, is your own business.
Thanks, Paul. I have my eye on some gorgeous photos on your Instagram . . .
(Only kidding!)
PixelStan77 wrote:
Kodak makes a product called Photoflow. Soak the print and glass in Photoflow and it will separate.
Thanks. I will look into it.
CPR wrote:
Are they stamped Copywrite or are they stamped with an advertisement for the studio?
With the company out of business I personally would not hesitate to use for personal use but not any commercial use such as ads,
There is a foil sticker at the back with the studio’s name, address, and telephone number. No copyright symbol, but I’m guessing that it is implied. I took it to a local studio that specializes in restoring old prints, and they said they would not do it.
andiamo236 wrote:
You might try water to release the photo. Those photos were processed and washed in water.
When the photo is removed you will need to dry the photo, if it has a glossy finish you will need to dry it with the glossy side toward a polished metal surface (perhaps a flat polished stainless steel cookie sheet) and apply gentle heat to the rear of the photo with a piece of linen or canvas on the back of the photo. There is always a chance the silver bromides may become separated from the paper backing.
Try wetting and drying another picture just to test this method.
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This is a bit of a Hail Mary solution. If it fails, I’ve also lost the original!!
I thought about that, but only as a last resort. Without removing the photo, I would also be unable to clean the glass.
Edit: Apologies. This was in reply to Longshadow.
I have some old photos of great sentimental value that I wish to share with family. The photos were taken circa 1960, and have the name of the studio stamped on the back. Having checked, I discovered that the studio went out of business in the 1980s. Can I legally/ethically have these photos scanned and reproduced? Thanks.
Does anyone know of a way to safely separate a photo that has become stuck to the glass in a photo frame? I have some photos that sat undisturbed in my father’s study for at least 25 years, and over time have become stuck to the glass of the frame. I am looking to clean up and update the frame. Any ideas? Thanks.
therwol wrote:
I'm curious to know which software you say will not run in anything other than Windows XP. Is it something that can be downloaded from somewhere? I'd be curious to know if I could get it to run in 32 bit Windows 7 or 10. I have both of these available to me.
It is proprietary software, which I co-wrote specifically for a company I own. It is not commercially available. I no longer have the object code or source code and it would not be worthwhile to recreate it since it is no longer mission critical to the business.
TriX wrote:
Have you tried running the legacy SW in Windows compatibility mode on a modern machine?
I think that might be a last resort, since the system is working fine at the moment. I am merely trying to clone the HDD to safeguard against something happening in the future. Thanks.
therwol wrote:
Not necessarily. SATA has been around since 2003. SATA II 2006. SATA III 2009. My 13 year old Dell laptop uses a hard drive with an SATA connector and the controller is SATA II. Perhaps there was a period of overlap between IDE and SATA in computers sold. If the OP is still following this, can we know the make and model of the laptop and the year it was manufactured?
Dell D610. No idea when it was manufactured. Thanks.
TriX wrote:
There is one other possible unsuspected issue with running an XP machine in 2020. If the machine is Intel based, not an issue, but if it’s an AMD CPU, you may find that there’s no way to access the vast majority of internet sites via any browser. Depending on the AMD CPU, many from the XP era do not support the appropriate security protocols for accessing https sites (which almost all are now) with any available browser, no matter what version, including legacy versions of the XP era. Learned this the hard way...
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Not a problem. This laptop is not connected to the internet. It's sole purpose is to run this one piece of legacy software. Thanks.