[Magdalen] Old photos

[Charles Wohlers]

Photoshop can actually do quite a good job at restoring the color on old 
prints. I inherited all my parents prints (& several cartons of slides), 
and, even most color prints dating back to the mid-to-early 50's could 
readily be restored so they look quite decent.

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 12:25 AM
To: Cantor03 at aol.com ; magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Old photos

I didn't do anything but prints--didn't have any way to show or share 
slides. And nothing but black and white until after I was married.
For awhile we used this company that packaged rolls of 35mm film like that 
used for actual movies. They processed it, and you got back slides and 
prints. They were gorgeous, but over time the prints all took on a ghastly 
pinkish hue. I haven't checked the slides in years--I think my daughter has 
them.

> On Apr 12, 2015, at 12:19 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen 
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/11/2015 10:50:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
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> I  was struck by the difference in quality between the color and black and
> white  pictures; the color ones have all faded, while the black and white
> ones could  have been taken yesterday.>>>
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> And yet 35mm slides from the same era remain clear with colors
> intact.
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> I used mostly during those years when I also was in Germany
> (1966-1970) the old Kodachrome 25, and toward the end of that
> period some Kodachrome X.  There was some Kodar Ektachrome
> as well.  Even the Agfachrome from those days seems intact.
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> I really must start dumping a lot of these.  They are not of  interest
> to my kids.  There are some family slides that I will keep.
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> I didn't do prints back in those days.  Sounds as though that may  have
> been a good idea.
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> David Strang.
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