How to replicate old black and white photos

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Hi, i'm new on here. My dad (Brian Duff FRPS) was a professional photographer. He died 3 years ago. i've been left boxes and boxes of his lifes work....he was the chief photographer at the Daily Express from around 1965 to say 85...so theres @ 20 years of good stuff. The pics are great and many of famous people but sat in my attic in boxes which seems a real waste...

Ive been tinkering with the idea of seeing if i can copy the pics in some way...

If i can, and they are in good enough condition, once say scanned and replicated, who knows, i may even start to sell them online:)

Thoughts anybody out there?

In a nutshell, is there a scanner out there good enough to do what i want it to? and for that matter, a printer??

All/any help would be very much appreciated.

Im based near Chester by the way....
 
Hi - i don't know much about them but i believe you'd want a "negative scanner" - so you'd scan the negatives rather than the developed pictures (i think they age better - but i may be wrong!). Try searching for it.

Cheers
 
Your biggest problems will probably be the size of the prints. Anything bigger than 10x8 and you're going to struggle to fit it on a scanner in one go which means copying it in sections and pasting together in photoshop.

Any old flatbed will probably do but if you want to do the very best job you can then look at something like the EpsonV700/V750. It's probably more scanner than you're ever likely to need but it's better than not having a scanner good enough for a repro job.

Something you may need to check is whether your father owned the copyright of the images he took when he was a staff photographer. Normally the photographer owns the copyright unless it's in their contract that the client owns it but you may find that in the time he was employed by the Daily Express they owned the copyright to those images. The last thing you want is a law suit if you sell some images they own the rights to.

Best of luck though.

Did your dad also leave you his cameras?
 
Hi Jonathan, :wave: and :welcome: to TP.

My first advice would be to post your enquiry in the relevant subforum (TalkEquipment or TalkBusiness). There you'll get a lot more views to the thread, as not that many check the "Welcome" parts.

As for the pictures, I'd suggest you go through them all and see what condition and what format they're in. I'm guessing these are pictures that were not part of his work, otherwise I think, and I may be wrong, but may be someone else has copyright to them :shrug: (please excuse my lack of knowledge on this, but I think you'd best to check this out to be on the safe side).

Another thing to think of, if there's a lot of work in scanning and processing. May be outsource this to a 3rd-party. Afterall, they'd have the expertise and time to do this while you concentrate on the more important stuff (marketing and showcasing).

I hope it goes well, it would be a shame to keep them in boxes; and please do keep us updated :thumbs:
 
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