{"id":42139,"date":"2025-07-09T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42139"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:04:17","slug":"tyrone-ektachrome-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tyrone-ektachrome-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrone\u2014Ektachrome-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last October, Kris, Seamus and I chased a westward Norfolk Southern freight on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division from Huntingdon to Tyrone, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I exposed a few digital photos, I’ve been waiting for this image for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I still occasionally expose color slides. However, where I once would shoot several rolls a day, these days it took me almost eight months to work through four rolls of Kodak Ektachrome. Finally, I boxed these up and sent them off to AgX Imaging in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan for E6 processing. https:\/\/www.agximaging.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, my four boxes of slides were returned to me in good order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owing to exceptional selectivity, I had a high ratio of success with the processed photos. A few were disappointing (mostly as the result of underexposure), but there are many very satisfying photos in the selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this image from the station platform at Tyrone of the NS westward train as it reached the apex of the curve. I was working with a vintage Nikon F3 with f2.0 135mm lens loaded with Ektachrome E100. I scanned the slide using a Nikon LS-5000 slide scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are two versions of the scan. The first is the unmodified scan, more or less the way it looked right out of the scanner (converted to JPG and scaled for internet presentation). The second is after some nominal post-processing. More slides to follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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unmodified scan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adjusted scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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