scanning my dads old slides from Korean war

[Honu]

thought this was pretty cool scanning in a bunch more slides of his I never scanned before
my dad and uncle were both F-86 Pilots in Korean war




think I posted this before older scan



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[Honu]

another


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[Averageman]

Thanks.

[flenna]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.

[William B.]

Thank you for sharing. Great quality, too!

[Alex V]

That's really cool! Scan them all and make an album online, post the link. I am sure we would all love to see more.

[mack7.62]

I like his carry piece, shows a level of gun savvy unusual for AF types.

[sundance435]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Do you mind if I ask if either of them had any confirmeds? I've always thought the F-86 was one of the best looking jets we made. Super-50's chic.

[OH58D]

Great images. Can you tell from the slides if they were Anscochrome, Ektachrome or Kodachrome? It will generally say on the cardboard mount. The first two brands generally show color shift after this many years, but Kodachrome is more archival and stable.

What are you scanning them with, or are you outsourcing the job?

[Honu]

That's really cool! Scan them all and make an album online, post the link. I am sure we would all love to see more.

yeah hope to do that and my uncles that I have to scan also will post some more here today as I make my way through them

I like his carry piece, shows a level of gun savvy unusual for AF types.

hahahah yup when I was younger he would allow me to buy handguns and he would sign for them

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Do you mind if I ask if either of them had any confirmeds? I've always thought the F-86 was one of the best looking jets we made. Super-50's chic.

agree on the looks of the F-86 nice small etc... they were in a fighter bomber division and he went on to instruct and do some other stuff he has some great stories of shenanigans they used to get away with never asked him about confirmed ? from what I understand many pilots were also WWII pilots with great experience and why we had such a high ratio against the North Koreans

Great images. Can you tell from the slides if they were Anscochrome, Ektachrome or Kodachrome? It will generally say on the cardboard mount. The first two brands generally show color shift after this many years, but Kodachrome is more archival and stable.

What are you scanning them with, or are you outsourcing the job?

did not know you must be into this somewhat cool
scanning with a coolscan 5000 ED using vuescan software since my OS does not allow me to use the older native software (which I liked) and silverfast was to much $$ to do this last batch

most of the stuff is Kodachrome vs ektachrome in about a 2:1 for the ones that were factory mounted
I know most the factory developed used that blue(ekta) or red(koda) on the slides to designate back in the day
pretty sure no ansco film but might be some agfa film as I know he shot that and I have non cardboard mounts ?
a few rolls were in the old Golde mounts and I think it was my uncle that had a golde projector if you google golde snap-it mounts you can see those not to bad to take apart and clean

about 5-6 rolls he used a old glass kodak mount kit with tape on the edges hate these things and I decided not to take them apart and remount them as many were his R&R in Japan the negs have a lot of dust on them the 5000 does a OK clean up and if I see something worthy I reckon I will remount it ? we wanted to keep it as is as much we can
lucky most the good stuff is all on the regular kodak cardboard mounts so easy to clean
I am not sure the ektachrome vs kodachrome for the cool stuff he shot coming up but will try to restore color best I can from the fade

also adj color balance on a few of them to take out fade etc... but trying to leave as much of that older color lean to them as I can

I am a full time pro photographer for last 20 years and been shooting my whole life and also do a lot of retouching work for other pros (Magazine covers and exhibitions) also used to do commercial advertising work for some pretty high end magazines when I lived in the islands mainly of resorts architecture etc.....

plan is we (brother & I) will make some albums(books) with the images as he likes to look at books more than screens of all of them and he wants to make notes on all the images which I think will be cool and then reproduce the books so each one of our kids can have a book of grandpa time as F-86 pilot

shot of my dad and his Voigtlander prominent he had and I still have the camera today


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