{"id":9384,"date":"2025-03-28T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9384"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:30:29","slug":"a-digitised-negative-from-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9384","title":{"rendered":"A digitised negative from 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From my previous post I have selected one negative to illustrate some points with digitising negatives using consumer grade film cameras – in this case an Olympus \u00b5(mju) 35mm camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I have discovered from this exercise is that, essentially, standards were lower: A ‘supersize’ print was 6″ x 4″; silk paper was used to disguise imperfections; and the lens quality appears to be poorer than modern lenses. This example is a photo of our garden at the time. First the negative as it came out of the camera (using a macro lens and film holder):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unprocessed 35mm negative of our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below is that negative processed to a positive image. There has been no sharpening, just inverting the negative and with basic colour\/contrast\/exposure adjustments applied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Processed 35mm negative of our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At web sizes it doesn’t look too bad but if we look at the centre of the image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Centre crop of the image to show the detail <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This doesn’t have the crispness we have come to expect. If we now look at the bottom left corner we see this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corner crop of the image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The quality at the corner is distinctly lacking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does this really matter? I think not. At the time I was pleased (on most occasions) with the prints and it was rare (and expensive!) to go larger. So I am happy with getting my images onto my computer where I can share them better with the family – and that is what is important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my previous post I have selected one negative to illustrate some points with digitising negatives using consumer grade film cameras – in this case an Olympus \u00b5(mju) 35mm camera. What I have discovered from this exercise is that, essentially, standards were lower: A ‘supersize’ print was 6″ x 4″; silk paper was used to … Continue reading “A digitised negative from 1996”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}