Mount Dandenong & District
Historical Society
Historical Society
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Mountain Tails No.3
The latest MDDHS Newsletter
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Mountain Tails No.2
The new MDDHS newsletter Mountain Tales #2
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Photos for Wendy, Calendar 2025
Processing of the photos was, in some cases, very challenging and I am not happy with either the Olinda shops one or the tanks on the back of the utes outside Leafbusters. Anyway, below is a comparison of the two scans of the One Tree Hill and Sassafras State School’s Queen Carnival. Left is the…
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John’s Negatives
Print vs Negative Scanning Just to show the difference between scanning a negative and a positive. Here is a comparison of one of John’s scans of a print on the left and Rob’s scan of his negative on the right. Note that the contrast and clarity of the negative scan is significantly improved over the…
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Image Processing
Many of the original images have significant blemishes from dust, stray hairs, staining or degradation through age. Interestingly, some of the Rose postcards were reproduced in a rather slapdash fashion, with little attention paid to cleaning the original negative from which the prints were made. As a result, there are fingerprints, dust and hair blemishes…