#Scanning technique
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Köln Hbf—Aug 1998.
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Working with a 1960s era Nikkor f2.8 135mm lens on a Nikon F3T, I made this view of DB passenger trains from beneath the arched trainshed at the Köln Hauptbahnhof (Cologne, Germany).
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Conrail SD80MAC scanning trial
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Below, I’ve posted five different examples of scans all from the same slide. All were made with an Epson V600 flatbed scanner. All were scaled from TIF RAW files using Lightroom without alterations in post processing
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Sugarbeet on the Roll—November 8, 2005.
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It was Irish Rail’s final sugarbeet season, although no one knew it at the time.
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DB at Bad Grönenbach, Bavaria
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This location on a Deutsche Bahn (DB) single track line at Bad Grönenbach featured traditional German mechanical signaling.
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HST at Newport- A Scanning Lesson.
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A few weeks ago I scanned a strip of 120-size Fuji Neopan 100 using my Epson V600 Scanner.
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Norfolk Southern Train 145 on the Street
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I made a series of photos of Norfolk Southern trains traversing the former Nickel Plate Road street trackage on 19th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Central Vermont 444 at Palmer
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Back in the mid-1980s, I’d often catch Central Vemont’s southward road freight arriving at Palmer, Massachusetts. This would operate overnight from St. Albans, and typically arrive in the morning.
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Classic Chrome Color COrrection—Coal Train at Galena, Illinois.
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To correct for the cyan tint and adjust contrast, I imported the scan into Adobe Lightroom for a few nominal corrections. In this Tracking the Light post I display scaled Jpgs from both the uncorrected and corrected files.
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Amtrak’s California Zephyr along the Truckee River
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In June 1994, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide using a Nikkormat FTN fitted with a Nikon AF28mm lens (focused manually) of Amtrak number 5, the westward California Zephyr as it worked upgrade along the Truckee River on Southern Pacific’s famous Donner Pass crossing.
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Shinkansen on Frame 39.
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Working with slide film had its perils. Normally, I used 36 exposure roles.
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Rabbit at Dusk
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DB (Germany Railways) class 218 diesel hydraulic locomotives are known as ‘Rabbits’ because of the rabbit ear appearance of their exhaust stacks.
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New York Subway—November 1998.
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On a visit to New York City in 1998, my father and I made a trip on the Flushing Line of the New York Subway.
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Gang Mills Sunset—Fixing a Chrome.
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Just after sunset on November 24, 1998, when we were visiting the old bridge (since removed) over the east end of the Gang Mills Yard (near Corning, New York). A bit of evening ‘drop under’ sun had tickled the clouds pink, when a headlight appeared to the west.
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Canadian National at Savanna.
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I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide using my Nikon F3T fitted with a Nikkor f4 200mm lens.
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Rochester & Southern—Example of a Multiple Pass Scan.
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I made the original photograph on April 19, 1989, showing a northward Rochester & Southern freight with former New York Central GP40s crossing a road at Scottsville, New York.
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Amtrak Pepsi Can on Kodachrome—High Resolution Scan (and how I made it).
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I have thousands of properly exposed Kodachrome slides from the 1980s and 1990s. This view of Amtrak 502 was exposed at Oakland, California 16th Street Station in August 1992. Gradually I’ve been scanning these into my archive. I’ve experimented with several…