Digital corrections

One of the wonderful things with the digital era is, for example, when you wish to correct an 32 year old color negative into something that looks much better than the original. My options to correct such a negative in the analog way, where limited (on color photo paper). Since i took this series of Ulf on Fujicolor G-100 - which isn't really aimed at portraits - the skin color just turned out weird. Plus that the originally brown packing paper itself looked weird in color as well.

These are the things that can be corrected or even manipulated in a different way. But it is wonderful to see, how these "off" color negatives can shine again.

 

Hurry up, bitch...

Still shine, until the color negative itself starts to fail in the next 10-20 years. I already seen that the stupid Agfa Color professional films, were highly unstable over time. Already now those color negatives from the end of the 80s, are disintegrating. I would say, Agfacolor was worst. Fujicolor best, and Kodak somewhere in the middle, albeit the professional emulsions were a bit better than the other Kodak films.

So yeah, it is really about time for me, to scan the remaining still vast (?) amount of color negatives I have in my folders stored for decades. (at the same time each sheet gets a new label with an Id, based on when it was taken). So that - in the end - i can store them in a correct time line) I do this every time i scan a whole roll. Yeah, it is tedious... But when it comes to certain things in life, i am surprizingly ystematic and orderly ! Scanning negatives appears to be a lifetime employment *LOL*

In just 11 at my age will be frikking 70 years of age.

I will still say (?) "I have to scan thousands of negatives left" while still residing in my little, isolated homepage bubble, woopiefuckin'doo

Perhaps a big crunch comes along, disrupting all magnetic drives around the world *LOL*

Or some flooding. Or god whatever else that can disrupt magnetic drives.

The digital era is really one funky, fleeting era in the periods of humanity, I am sure. Who has still digital images you once had on your hard drive 30 years ago ? Anyone ?

Barely nothing, if anything at all.


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