Glass Negatives
This is a collection of large format glass negatives, each measuring 4 5/8" x 6.5". Although I cannot confirm the actual date or location of these photos, I do know they were taken between 1839 and 1880. The first glass negative was made by John Herschel in 1839. By 1884 George Eastman invented "dry gel on paper" or film to replace these photographic plates. By 1901 glass plates were no longer widely used.
Below are fine fine examples of photography we've scanned from the advent of the photograph. Although the emulsion is showing it's age, the images we've captured from these glass negatives give you an idea of what we can do with transferring glass negatives to digital.
It should be noted that glass negatives are extremely fragile. We take the utmost care in handling and transferring these memories from this time of medium. We however cannot be held responsible for damage or breakage that may occur when handling glass negatives throughout the scanning process, transport or shipping.
The red outlined bubble points to an un-edited raw scanned image of each scanned glass negative.
The blue outlined bubble pointing to the finished "customer ready" scan following manual re-touching. Because of the age of these negatives, and damage to the emulsion that is typically found on these types of negatives, we highly recommend that you take advantage of the re-touching service we offer. In most cases we can reverse damage to the emulsion on your final image. This is a process where we utilize our considerable skill in photo retouching to reverse existing damage on your scanned images.
Information contained in the blue bubble gives you an idea of the specifications of the completed files you'll expect to receive. Of course you will also receive the same image in JPG format, reduced in resolution by 50 percent. These reduced JPG files will be suitable for printing your images if you'd like at your favorite photo printing retailer. Alternatively, these JPG images give you more than enough resolution for displaying on your phones, portable display devices, computers, digital frames... any device that supports JPG format images. The possibilities are endless. Even e-mailing to your friends and family. As discussed elsewhere on the website, the TIF format images (as shown beside the blue outlined bubble) are given to you because they contain ALL of the data from the original scan. Retain these as they are a permanent copy of all of the photo information that was captured at the time of scanning with no compression or loss of data.
Glass Negative Scanned Sample - Number 1
This group of large format glass negatives were shot between 1839 - 1880 putting them at potentially over 170 years old. As you can see the glass negative has shown it's age, however, quite a remarkably good image can be obtained from such an old glass negative.
The first scan is an un-modified raw scan as the analog image exists at the time of scanning.
The subsequent images are what you would receive if you chose our restoration option. As you can see, the first re-touched/restored image has the majority of the imperfections removed. The last image has ROC applied the restores the contrast and life back into the photograph.
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Scan with no post processing. |
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Retouched/Restored Scan |
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Retouched/Restored Scan with ROC applied. |
Glass Negative Scanned Sample - Number 2
This group of large format glass negatives were shot between 1839 - 1880 putting them at potentially over 170 years old. As you can see the glass negative has shown it's age, however, quite a remarkably good image can be obtained from such an old glass negative.
The first scan is an un-modified raw scan as the analog image exists at the time of scanning.
The subsequent images are what you would receive if you chose our restoration option. As you can see, the first re-touched/restored image has the majority of the imperfections removed. The last image has ROC applied the restores the contrast and life back into the photograph.
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Scan with no post processing. |
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Retouched/Restored Scan |
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Retouched/Restored Scan with ROC applied. |
Glass Negative Scanned Sample - Number 3
This group of large format glass negatives were shot between 1839 - 1880 putting them at potentially over 170 years old. As you can see the glass negative has shown it's age, however, quite a remarkably good image can be obtained from such an old glass negative.
The first scan is an un-modified raw scan as the analog image exists at the time of scanning.
The subsequent images are what you would receive if you chose our restoration option. As you can see, the first re-touched/restored image has the majority of the imperfections removed. The last image has ROC applied the restores the contrast and life back into the photograph.
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Scan with no post processing. |
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Retouched/Restored Scan |
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Retouched/Restored Scan with ROC applied. |
Glass Negative Scanned Sample - Number 4
This group of large format glass negatives were shot between 1839 - 1880 putting them at potentially over 170 years old. As you can see the glass negative has shown it's age, however, quite a remarkably good image can be obtained from such an old glass negative.
The first scan is an un-modified raw scan as the analog image exists at the time of scanning.
The subsequent images are what you would receive if you chose our restoration option. As you can see, the first re-touched/restored image has the majority of the imperfections removed. The last image has ROC applied the restores the contrast and life back into the photograph.
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Scan with no post processing. |
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Retouched/Restored Scan |
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Retouched/Restored Scan with ROC applied. |
Glass Negative Scanned Sample - Number 5
The first image is a scan of the slide exactly as it existed at the time of scanning.
The second scan is what the actual scanned image would look like that you, the customer would receive if this were your slide. ALL scans that we do undergo this same corrective process ensuring that you get the best quality image possible, in a 3600dpi scan.
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Scan with no post processing. |
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Retouched/Restored Scan |
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Retouched/Restored Scan with ROC applied. |
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