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60 year old negatives

2003-11-24 by redwoods2tiredhal

My father took quite a few photos of the 1939 World's Fair with his Rollei.  The 
negatives were stored for 64 years in "Nega-Print Album."  The album is made up of 
soft paper envelopes that two photos were attached to the front and back and the 
four corresponding negatives were stored inside.

I just had the negatives scanned to TIFFs at a local shop and was quite surprised at 
the amount of grain showing.  There was a little dust, no prints, and no 
scratches.  But, the grain is strange.  Maybe the chemistry of the negatives changed 
over time, some interaction with the envelopes, or they weren't totally fixed.  Anyway, 
there's going to be quite a lot of PS work to do before these are printable.  Lot's of 
work ahead of me.  

Hal

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