[TI] LDS film

[Elizabeth Budry]

Rosalie:

Thanks for all your help and Happy Easter.

Elizabeth Budry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rosalie" <mygirl at ctc.net>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] LDS film


> Elizabeth,
> What we do with the film when it's like that is take it home and go 
> through
> a computer program that brightens and lightens and use gamma and contrast.
> It helps with some of the film.  Not all but you do get a little more out 
> of
> the film.  When you just gave the information as in your message this made
> me think about this problem.  There is a lot of film like that.  Some 
> times
> doing negative on it works too.
>
> I use Irfanview.  It's a free program from the internet.  Laura uses 
> another
> program.  So maybe need to take digital copies and try that.
> Rosalie Amison
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elizabeth Budry" <erbudry at sc.rr.com>
> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:02 PM
> Subject: [TI] LDS film
>
>
>> Yesterday I went to the LDS to review the bad film I mentioned a few days
>> earlier.  Some of the film is very, very light and the print on some of
>> the
>> pages is missing.  In fact, on a good deal of the death records (four to 
>> a
>> page) the only thing readable is the person's signature.
>>
>> The librarian called Salt Lake City about this film.  They suggested 
>> using
>> a
>> colored filter to aid in reading it.  I happened to have a yellow plastic
>> filter with me.  I also used the best reader in the house, the one with
>> the
>> printer attached.  The filter helped the light documents but of course 
>> not
>> the ones that had no printing on them.  They said they would refund my
>> money
>> but I don't want a refund, only a readable film.  The film is being sent
>> back with a note from the librarian to this effect and I should have some
>> results in 3-4 weeks.
>>
>> Thanks to all for your suggestions.  Happy Easter to all.
>>
>> Elizabeth Budry
>>
>>
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