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Has anyone ever worked with these before? They're about 8X10 inch glass negatives.
My old man is really into geneology and obtained some decent glass slides of everything from street scenes to portraits taken by some distant relative nearly a century ago (I'm guessing).
Has anyone made prints from these before or succeeded in capturing a digital image from one?
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I haven't done it personally, but they should be pretty easy to contact print. If you don't know how to contact print things I'd be glad to show you how sometime.
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Also, unless I'm mistaken glass plate negatives weren't in common use a century ago. 120 rollfilm is from the late 1800's. The glass plate negatives are probably older than you think.
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Posted by EatsTooMuchJam
I haven't done it personally, but they should be pretty easy to contact print. If you don't know how to contact print things I'd be glad to show you how sometime.
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Also, unless I'm mistaken glass plate negatives weren't in common use a century ago. 120 rollfilm is from the late 1800's. The glass plate negatives are probably older than you think.
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I did some contact prints back in high school, and sadly it's been nearly as long since I've done any darkroom work of my own. I will take you up on that invite, ETMJ. Thanks.
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Cool. I can probably just bring you into the darkroom with me at IFP. I doubt they'd have a problem with that. Contact prints are really easy. How many negatives are there?
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I don't know what kind of quality you are looking for, but you probably could scan them on a flat bed scanner.
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Tried it, doesn't work so hot.
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