From: Duncan L. <dun...@gm...> - 2010-02-04 09:31:19
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For anyone who followed this thread I'm afraid the news was bad. Almost none of the photos survived. Soaking them softened the emulsion which allowed them to glide off each other (in the better cases). But the chemicals underneath were just try powder and washed away from the backing. So most of the emulsion was already gone I think. Probably soaked into the back of the adjoining photo. So that was a tragic end the long life of those images. The only upside is that I found a set of photocopies of the images, not too bad quality, with text explaining them. So they are now scanned and sitting in my folder of files to process. Duncan -- 'The unconsidered life is not worth living' - Socrates |