Playing with Old B/W Prints.

A couple here from February 1982 taken on the ME Super and either 50mm SMC-M 1.7 or the 28mm SMC-M f2.8.
The place is Haworth in Yorkshire. I used the K1 mk2 and DFA WR 100mm and played in RT.
Hopefully enjoy......




I couldn't bring out much detail of the tubes in this one, time was limited.

Well done Loadof, different times hah, First one wins but I like both
It's great that one can convert older film negative or slide at home.

Love them both - nicely done and a great record of your past adventures

Great result, and the grimy look of the second image works for me!

Flan said;
"It's great that one can convert older film negative or slide at home."

I copied the prints rather than the negs as my Ohnar slide copier will not hold the negatives. I'm sure I managed it once before but it's a problem from memory.

So I'm contemplating getting a flatbed light source and neg holder, I have just been looking at this;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rybozen-Ultra-Thin-Portable-Scanner-Negatives....
not bad for £23 but noticed one complaint that it didn't work on negatives!

Anyone with helpful suggestions? clean ones please.

Thank you guys for your comments, appreciated as always.

For negatives and the money, I would go along with the purchase of that cheap light box.
Set you're tripod up pointing downwards onto a stable surface with the negative perfectly flat on the light-box, I use a little weights around the edges to prevent distortion from curl when needed (kitchen table suits me height wise) view and level perfectly on both planes of view and use live view an also press the ok button to really get in close to achieve that extra detail.
f8 aperture on the DFA macro 100mm and iso 100 obviously.
I get in as close, or as focus will allow and then come back a tiny tad adjusting the tripod height but maintaining full 35mm coverage of the neg or slide, as best I can.
When one has set up good one can do a batch of old negs.
Put one of them into Rawtherappe and when one chooses to develop a negative, reverse the curve field, so the that it shows as a positive.
This is my ameture approach currently but allows me to learn the easy way.

I have taken the easy rather than cheapest route and use a Plustek slide and negative scanner most of the time. For my old 6x6 and 6x4.5 negatives I use an Epson flatbed scanner.

Away from the technicaties of digitising film I really loved both images. Having spent today cleaning a loco after the weekends service the second image particularly resonates with its depiction of the grime around steam locomotion

Thanks Stephen for the info and comments.

Flan, thanks for the useful advice, I'm still looking/researching/.....