[AT] USA in Color: 1939-1943

[Larry Goss]

No, Gene, No.  Don't throw those Ektachromes away.  Scan them into your computer, load them into Picasa, and bring back the original color and contrast using the adjustments in the software.  Once you get the routine down to an assembly-line style function, the throughput on scanning takes about one minute per image, and you can do several hundred color corrections while you're listening to the evening news in the background.  THEN, you can throw the slides away.  :-)  The really nice thing about Picasa (besides that it is free) is that you automatically get a "paper trail" of the corrections on every image, and every correction is completely revertible.  You do not get new non-revertible images unless you burn the corrected images to a CD.  Even then, the originals in your computer are still revertible to their original form.  This sort of function is a godsend to people who are doing real archiving and genealogy work.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: GWaugh <GWaugh at wowway.com>
Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010 20:22
Subject: Re: [AT] USA in Color:  1939-1943
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Yeah, we have about a quadzillion (still less than a trillion) 
> Ektachrome 
> slides starting around 1955 - 1960, and they are pretty much 
> lost and gone 
> now---color/image loss.
> 
> Sad---but so it goes.
> 
> Gene
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] USA in Color:  1939-1943
> 
> > There's just "something" about old Kodachrome.  It's 
> because of the narrow 
> > film latitude and the color balance.  My grandmother 
> started taking color 
> > slides in 1940, so my cousins and I have an historical 
> collection that 
> > dates from this same era. If any of you have similarly-aged 
> slides, do 
> > what you have to to get high-resolution scans of them while 
> they are still 
> > in good condition.  With time, some of the film layers 
> can crystalize and 
> > disappear.  The whole time I was viewing this collection, 
> the lyrics of a 
> > popular song kept running through my head, "Mama don't take my 
> Kodachromes 
> > awa-a-a-ay"
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> > Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:03
> > Subject: Re: [AT] USA in Color:  1939-1943
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >
> >> Nice photos.  I sent them on to my cousin who is a big fan
> >> of old photos.
> >> I'm sure he'd want me to thank Steve for posting them.
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:31 AM
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> >> Subject: Re: [AT] USA in Color:  1939-1943
> >>
> >> > WOW
> >> > Paul-46555
> >> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> > From: "The Allen Family" <steveallen855 at centurytel.net>
> >> > To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:59 AM
> >> > Subject: [AT] USA in Color: 1939-1943
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-
> >> america-in-color-from-1939-
> >> 
> 1943/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+dp-blogs-captured+(Denver+Post:+Blogs:+Captured+Photo+Blog
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Urban - Rural, Agriculture - Industry, North - South - 
> East - West,
> >> >> Desert - Sea Coast:  Great pics.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> The "original" Steve Allen
> >> >> Near Rolla, MO
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