Ich digitalisiere ja so nebenher einen Monsternachlass. Fotos von kurz nach der Erfindung der Fotographie in allen denkbaren Formaten. Glasplatten, Dias, Negative maskiert und unmaskiert, alles halt. Und gerade bin ich halt gerade wieder über den Bildern vom Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts. Das oben ist Elise Hoffmann. Sagt wahrscheinlich niemand was. Meine […]
Digitising analogue material Part III
Digitize medium format. 35mm format is not a major problem. With anything larger, it gets hairy. I’ve already mentioned the Kodak Instamatic – I don’t really care about the 2mm missing at the top, but you have to come up with something for anything larger. If you still have working medium format […]
Digitising analogue material Part II
Today it’s all about negative material in 35mm format. As already discussed in the last episode: Flatbed scanners and older slide scanners have a problem with the dynamic range of negative film. Some scanners try to solve the problem with multiple exposures. However, this only works if the “dynamic range” of the […]
Digitising analogue material Part I
The shoe boxes and the slide boxes and old negative strips. A horror. Thousands of unlabelled pictures. Is that historical or crap? Some of the shoe boxes have been moved from the first estate to the second and third estates, and occasionally photo albums have been dismantled because they took up too […]



