Yesterday i’ve start working on a article („Aspecte tehnice privind Colecția Costică Acsinte“) for kosson.ro describing the digitization process i use at Costică Acsinte Archive. Now i’m planning a print-ready version, probably tomorrow will be ready.
Besides usually scans, today i’ve finished digitizing 20 postcards printed by Costică Acsinte. Nothing unusual except they have been borrowed from a private collection that belongs to Sava Ștefan. I didn’t finished adding the metadata yet but i can show you two version of the same print:
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- Original version
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- Cleaning before scan version
Statistics
| Number of items digitized | 18 + 20×2 (58) |
| Size on disk | 7778205696 bytes (7.24 GB) |
| Total area scanned | TBA cm² |
Here’s the first part of the Sava’s contribution to the Costică Acsinte’s Archive. Enjoy and stay tuned, the rest will follow shortly after (ok, maybe tomorrow):
How do you ”clean” the glass plate, having in mind the already crackling and detaching emulsion? the difference between the two images is astonishing!
iopopescualta The deteriorated plates (with cracks and flakes as you said) are not cleaned on the emulsion side except for dust with a gentle brush. Read the whole process on http://kosson.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=927:aspecte-tehnice-privind-colectia-costica-acsinte&catid=54&Itemid=79&lang=ro