scanning my dads old slides from Korean war

[Sam]

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


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Voightlander are great camera. My dad bought one in the mid 50s when he was in Europe. Stay tuned for picture.

Thanks for sharing pictures that your dad took. I'm sure he was a great man.

[SteyrAUG]

So I just found out about how much it is going to cost me to create digital images of my families many, many, many slides. Was really hoping I'd be able to somehow drop them on a flatbed scanner.

Anyway, always loved Sabers, one of the coolest jets to me growing up. I thought I had memories of seeing them in flight but they were taken out of service before I was born, I know I used to see a lot of F4s from Homestead AF base in the early 70s.

Anyway, some really cool pictures. Making them into a book is a wonderful idea for the kids. Would also submit copies and stories to any of the Korean War museums.

[Honu]

Voightlander are great camera. My dad bought one in the mid 50s when he was in Europe. Stay tuned for picture.

Thanks for sharing pictures that your dad took. I'm sure he was a great man.

yeah he is still around but typical pilot as he went commercial after he got out

So I just found out about how much it is going to cost me to create digital images of my families many, many, many slides. Was really hoping I'd be able to somehow drop them on a flatbed scanner.

Anyway, always loved Sabers, one of the coolest jets to me growing up. I thought I had memories of seeing them in flight but they were taken out of service before I was born, I know I used to see a lot of F4s from Homestead AF base in the early 70s.

Anyway, some really cool pictures. Making them into a book is a wonderful idea for the kids. Would also submit copies and stories to any of the Korean War museums.

thanks

yeah for scanning slides its tough to get good scans you really need a good slide scanner or a drum which is insane money but even better scan and out of home use and cost per scan is around $40 per scan

scanning takes some time not tough just waiting for the scan figure couple minutes per slide but scanners like the one I am using can be had on ebay for around $1500 now as they have come way down but they are good really good
software to run it can be had for $89 but if you are Ok with time I would say if they are all 35mm slides and or negatives pick up a nikon coolscan 5000 ED for around $1500 and scan em all then resell if for about what you paid as they hold value really well but you have to realize it takes a few minutes total per slide on avg

the only other thing you can do is use a camera and a macro lens and make a slide holder ( you can buy em also) and use a bright light source behind could be a 100 watt bulb in one of those cheap silver reflectors from the hardware store and a piece of tracing paper or something to diffuse the light so you do not get a hot spot in the camera you need a camera that can have a true macro lens though

scale of 1-10 a drum being 10 the coolscan is about a 8-9 and camera is about a 5-6 and flatbeds even with slide holders are about a 2-3 depending on level of flat bed I used to have a $2000 flat bed for our design company and even it could not hold a candle to the coolscan

[OH58D]

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

Maybe I am a Renaissance man? I have been into photography since I was a little kid. By the time I reached my teenage years, I got into medium format with an old 1940's Kodak Monitor in 620 (2 1/4 x 3 1/14) film size. After that I graduated to large format, shooting both 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film. Never liked black and white so I was shooting color early on, mainly Ektachrome and Fujichrome transparencies. I would then enlarge on Cibachrome, also known as ilfochrome Classic - Positive to Positive prints and very archival.

Most of my stuff has been more documentary photography than pretty pictures. If you look in the Retro section, you will see a very small sampling of some images I shot with a Yashica 35mm rangefinder camera I took to ROTC Basic training at Fort Knox in 1978. Those are scans from prints and were simple snapshots. No planning or artistry, and very little technique. The best 35mm film camera I ever owned was a Leica R7, which I bought after I was promoted to Army Major in early 1994.

For film scanning the best results come from drum scanners, but very expensive, especially for large format sheet film. You have achieved good results looking at the samples you have shown here.

[OH58D]

Honu, since you are a pro in photography, take a look at this picture below. I took it near a grove of trees along the Canadian River and it's my 17 year old son during his Senior Year of High Schoo. He will turn 21 next week and he is the one in his Junior year at West Point. This was taken with a Nikon D300S as a Raw Image using a Nikkor 18-200mm medium priced lens. The lean of the Cottonwood Trees and my son kneeling in the opposite direction really intrigued me. It kind of matches his personality - whichever way the wind blows, he is moving in an opposite direction:

[Honu]

very cool nice classic shot of your kid and as I say a lot of photography is about memory and connection and feeling so the tree thing makes sense since ya know him so well

funny to hear the cibachrome not something you hear today I loved the cibachrome look I had one made of a bunch of bullets from a wreck in Micronesia all this brass corrosion turquoise color and the rust of the hull landing all over it was WOW pop colors going on

yeah drums I mentioned above to steyr big money but the best you can get

I had a darkroom from the late 70s onward never got into large format gear though but thought it was cool

besides my underwater work which I lost a ton of sadly and all my early stuff from some moves bad thing about one set of negatives why I love modern digital
these days I shoot mostly with nikon D810 and sigma art primes and have a newer Z6 that I freaking love but I love mirrorless stuff I use it mostly for work such as events which are now all canceled but plan on the new rumored Z8 ?

I now mostly do pets and want to do some other smaller wild animals but more with lighting and more dramatic not nature safari type stuff will send ya a PM for fun

[Sam]

Honu:

Sorry I spoke of your dad in the past tense. I'm more than overjoyed that he is still with you, enjoy him.

Here is my dad's Voigt Vitomatic:



I still have the brown leather case, it is a little but considering its age and all of the 20+ countries it travelled.

[SteyrAUG]

yeah he is still around but typical pilot as he went commercial after he got out



thanks

yeah for scanning slides its tough to get good scans you really need a good slide scanner or a drum which is insane money but even better scan and out of home use and cost per scan is around $40 per scan

scanning takes some time not tough just waiting for the scan figure couple minutes per slide but scanners like the one I am using can be had on ebay for around $1500 now as they have come way down but they are good really good
software to run it can be had for $89 but if you are Ok with time I would say if they are all 35mm slides and or negatives pick up a nikon coolscan 5000 ED for around $1500 and scan em all then resell if for about what you paid as they hold value really well but you have to realize it takes a few minutes total per slide on avg

the only other thing you can do is use a camera and a macro lens and make a slide holder ( you can buy em also) and use a bright light source behind could be a 100 watt bulb in one of those cheap silver reflectors from the hardware store and a piece of tracing paper or something to diffuse the light so you do not get a hot spot in the camera you need a camera that can have a true macro lens though

scale of 1-10 a drum being 10 the coolscan is about a 8-9 and camera is about a 5-6 and flatbeds even with slide holders are about a 2-3 depending on level of flat bed I used to have a $2000 flat bed for our design company and even it could not hold a candle to the coolscan

Thanks for the rundown. Gonna be hard to pass up the next "seriously need" firearm to buy a slide scanner but that's what I'm probably looking at. Probably gonna have to keep it because as soon as I would sell it I or my wife, and most probably my wife, would discover another box of slides.

I tried to set up my Nikon on a tripod and take photos of slides in an old Kodak projector and while it was better than nothing, it wasn't anything close to what you were able to get. It's amazing how much detail is in those stupid little slides.

I also have a couple shoeboxes full of vintage cheesecake photos from the 60s on slides that I've acquired when I purchased complete collections of vintage photos and magazines. So I guess that's added incentive.

[Honu]

Honu:

Sorry I spoke of your dad in the past tense. I'm more than overjoyed that he is still with you, enjoy him.

Here is my dad's Voigt Vitomatic:



I still have the brown leather case, it is a little but considering its age and all of the 20+ countries it travelled.

no worries at all honestly no worries hahahah he would have laughed to I am a bit worried with the covid thing as he likes to go out and get stuff daily excuse to drive his cars etc..... dude is like 84 or so forgot now but still with it big time just picked up a BMW M3 and already has a 6 also he is always out pushing them every day he is a big car guy but lots of pilots seem to be adrenalin junkies till the day they go and at this point not going to tell him to stay home just in case hahahahahah yeah NO WAY would he listen but more power to em

that is super cool they had some nice stuff for the day to bad they did not catch on as much as leica and nikon etc... ! the company has been bought up but they still make the glass (lens) and are quite liked by a lot of manual focus folks for having great character there is a voigt 50 that is newer I want to get one day

I have my dads original camera bag and everything so cool to hear ya have the case still for yours

that is the one camera I will never get rid of no way ! all my other gear are my tools and I love em but am OK with leaving them tomorrow but like yours I reckon its sentimental

[Honu]

Thanks for the rundown. Gonna be hard to pass up the next "seriously need" firearm to buy a slide scanner but that's what I'm probably looking at. Probably gonna have to keep it because as soon as I would sell it I or my wife, and most probably my wife, would discover another box of slides.

I tried to set up my Nikon on a tripod and take photos of slides in an old Kodak projector and while it was better than nothing, it wasn't anything close to what you were able to get. It's amazing how much detail is in those stupid little slides.

I also have a couple shoeboxes full of vintage cheesecake photos from the 60s on slides that I've acquired when I purchased complete collections of vintage photos and magazines. So I guess that's added incentive.

yeah I hear ya man if I had spent what I have on cameras over the last 20 years I would be rich cameras became worthless guns went up but then again its my income ?
slides never stop being found is true !!!!!! they grow in cupboards in the back somehow

yeah screen and stuff is pretty hard ya can kinda archive em but that is about it that way sadly again really need a slide scanner but the camera thing can work

one thing to you can get cheap are extension tubes it kinda mimics a macro lens ? figure under $30 and again a basic light and some diffusion and you could maybe do something ? might take a bit of setup ? I have in past for older med format negs gone to the dollar store and for a $1 gotten foam core in black cut out the shape of the negative dead center and then use a ruler cut a piece of the board off the bottom and tape on like a little shelf below the hole for the negative (this keeps light from coming at your camera that then is in front of you when copying the image) but I bet for $50 you could do something and that is with extension tubes if you have a camera you can change the lens on ?

if ya decide to google but always here to help if I can in anyway with that since photo stuff is my living