three from the sixties - final update

[Riessen2]

To address Adrians wish for more "golden oldies" I took three random slides from my collection. Clean them, scan them and gave a bit of love from Photoshop.

Canberra PR.9 WH794 from 58 sqn at St. Mawgan in September 1967.


Sea Vixen FAW.2 XJ582/721 from 766 sqn at Yeovilton in September 1968.


Belvedere HC.1 XG452 at Cranfield in June 1966.


Hope you guys enjoy them.

[HOLTY]

My god!! They could have been taken today!!! MORE!!!!

[AndyXH558]

What he said. the first one i think is a PR7?

[Riessen2]

What he said. the first one i think is a PR7?

Sorry for my typo.

[AndyXH558]

there is no problem. it looks amazing nevertheless. looks like it has just come out of the factory. Please if you have any more I would love to see them. just one thing... how did you get your time machine running?

[Arthur Tee]

Absolutely fantastic!

Arthur

[PeteM]

Superb
More please!

[paullangford]

Beautiful quality, best I've seen from slides to web.

Thanks for sharing them.

[Rory76]

Wow. Stunning shots and unbelievable clarity

[ciaranchef]

Agree with all the others, perfect quality considering the age, please please put up some more, Ciaran

[AMB]

Ah now THAT'S more like it! These are what I call real 'golden oldies'.
Excellent stuff and that Belvedere is the one that is now in the Helicopter Museum at Weston-Super-Mare!

[bigcrow]

Outstanding quality...

[Westy]

I'll add my astonishment to the list also - brilliant especially the PR7, and ye please, we'd love some more

[Maisie]

They are just digital photos, right? Superb quality! Mind me asking whats been done to them in Photoshop?

[Riessen2]

They are just digital photos, right? Superb quality! Mind me asking whats been done to them in Photoshop?

To be honest nothing special. I scan them with 3600 dpi (Plustek 7600I) and then do the obvious things in photoshop like levels, contrast, colour ballance, noise reduction and a bit of sharpening.

[Thunder City Veteran]

Beautiful pictures..3 great british classics!! Sadly, 794 ended her days being burnt on the Catterick fire dump

[AMB]

They are just digital photos, right? Superb quality! Mind me asking whats been done to them in Photoshop?

To be honest nothing special. I scan them with 3600 dpi (Plustek 7600I) and then do the obvious things in photoshop like levels, contrast, colour ballance, noise reduction and a bit of sharpening.

The key was to use a good quality camera lens (even Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Minolta made top 35mm cameras in those days) plus Kodachrome II (later K25) colour slide film. This combination has stood the test of time and works very well with todays' scanners with little adjustment necessary in Photoshop, providing you had framing, focus and exposure all 'spot-on' when you took the shot.
If you used an inferior camera, film made by Agfa or even worse Ilford, then you may have to do some work in Photoshop to produce a good digital image. If you took prints and not slides, then the results would be significantly reduced in quality as a print is a secondary image whereas a slide is a primary image (a positive negative!)

[Riessen2]

To be honest nothing special. I scan them with 3600 dpi (Plustek 7600I) and then do the obvious things in photoshop like levels, contrast, colour ballance, noise reduction and a bit of sharpening.[/quote]
The key was to use a good quality camera lens (even Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Minolta made top 35mm cameras in those days) plus Kodachrome II (later K25) colour slide film. This combination has stood the test of time and works very well with todays' scanners with little adjustment necessary in Photoshop, providing you had framing, focus and exposure all 'spot-on' when you took the shot.
If you used an inferior camera, film made by Agfa or even worse Ilford, then you may have to do some work in Photoshop to produce a good digital image. If you took prints and not slides, then the results would be significantly reduced in quality as a print is a secondary image whereas a slide is a primary image (a positive negative!)[/quote]

Of course Adrian is right. As I have collected fairly good quality Kodachrome slides it is a little beat easier to work them. Seeing all the nice reactions and the amount of people that have been watching them I have prepared another three.

Andover C.1 XS643/D 84 sqn at Sjarjah on 7 May 1969.


Jet Provost T.4 XS226/42 of the Red Pelicans demoteam from the CFS at St. Mawgan on 13 September 1968.


Royal Navy Phantom FG.1 XT862/VL-722 at Yeovilton on 4 September 1969.


Enjoy.

[PeteM]

Superb! You can post as many as you like from St Mawgan

[AlexC]

If you used an inferior camera, film made by Agfa or even worse Ilford, then you may have to do some work in Photoshop to produce a good digital image. If you took prints and not slides, then the results would be significantly reduced in quality as a print is a secondary image whereas a slide is a primary image (a positive negative!)

Absolutely right of course! I started out in the 60's using Kodachrome. Tried Agfa once, didn't like it. Never used Ilford. Continued using mainly Kodachrome 64 plus some Fuji Sensia, Velvia and Provia later (not bad) until being dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age!

[Riessen2]

Hunter T.7 WV372/R of 2 sqn at Gütersloh in February 1969.



Javelin T.3 XH446, C.S.N. Shawbury in May 1965.



Valiant B.1 XD816 of 214 sqn at Abingdon in April 1969.



Cheers

[Westy]

Excellent stuff please do keep them coming

[DanO1978]

Exceptional clarity and quality!

[Rory76]

Are you sure you don't have a direct line to Dr Emmett Brown? The quality on these is better than some pretty good DSLR shots on here!

[AMB]

If you used an inferior camera, film made by Agfa or even worse Ilford, then you may have to do some work in Photoshop to produce a good digital image. If you took prints and not slides, then the results would be significantly reduced in quality as a print is a secondary image whereas a slide is a primary image (a positive negative!)

Absolutely right of course! I started out in the 60's using Kodachrome. Tried Agfa once, didn't like it. Never used Ilford. Continued using mainly Kodachrome 64 plus some Fuji Sensia, Velvia and Provia later (not bad) until being dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age!

Wrong quote Alex - I posted that!