Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

The Preservation of The Curnock Glass Plate Negatives Introduction Our services ( @OxfordDuplicat1 )  are highly recommended in the UK for specialist photographic film scanning. Trusted to our company, we are preparing The Curnock glass plate collection, held at Oxford Brookes University and part of the  @MethodistGB collection. Almost all archives possess some type of photographic collection. Many individuals typically think of “photographs” as plastic-based negatives and slides; but these photographic techniques are relatively recent inventions. Prior to the invention of cellulose nitrate film in 1903, photographic emulsions were made on glass supports. These glass supports are typically referred to as glass plate negatives. The term “glass plate negative” refers to two separate formats: the collodion wet plate negative and the gelatin dry plate. Both of these formats consist of a light sensitive emulsion that is fixed to the glass plate base with a binder. Dozens of photog...

The Preservation of Bicester Glass Plate Negatives to Archive Outputs. Working with Bicester History Society, we are preparing  high quality glass plate negative digitisation of rare footage from Bicesters local history. Our archive specialist archive technicians are skilled in supporting our clients with the digitisation and scanning of fragile glass plate negative heritage materials.  We are able to offer a scanning service for glass plate and lantern slides upto A3 in size.   Glass plates are first gently cleaned before being converted from negative images to positives.  All slides are digitised to HQ TIFF images before we prepare Adobe Archival technique adjusting contrast and sharpness to ensure that you receive the clearest possible digital images.  Output images can be converted into digital formats to include RAW, JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, BMP and Adobe PDF in full colour or greyscale. Indexing, Metadata tagging, OCR and all forms of image processing ca...

The Preservation of Glass Plate Negatives http://oxfordduplicationcentre.com/Photographic-Glass-Plate-Scanning-Service-Oxfordshire-UK.html Highly recommended in Oxfordshire and Thames Valley as one of the leading scanning and archive specialists, we hold 5***** testimonials from University of Oxford, B4 Business, Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums to include thousands of consumer clients. From small orders to large bulk order archives our team excel in all areas of digital scanning solutions. Our digitisation and scanning department can support public and corporate media to include glass plate negatives and lantern slides . Once scanned the negatives can be converted into digital formats such as RAW, JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, BMP and Adobe PDF in full colour or greyscale.

PHOTOGRAPHIC GLASS PLATE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE SCANNING SERVICES FOR CORPORATE AND CONSUMER CLIENTS IN OXFORDSHIRE UK Oxford Duplication have established a preservation technique perfect for preserving photographic plates and prevent their valuable historical information from being lost. The emulsion on the plate can deteriorate. In addition, the glass plate medium is fragile and prone to cracking if not stored correctly. History of Photography, Glass Plate and Tintype Ferrotype Negatives There are 2 types of glass plate negatives and 1 type of tintype negative. Collodion Wet Plate and Gelatine Dry Plate and further below more information about Ferrotypes also known as Tintypes.  Collodion Wet Plate Negatives - 1851 until the 1880s. Invented by Frederick Scoff Archer an English sculptor. Frederick used a viscous solution of collodion coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Glass plates created a sharper stable and detailed negative than paper. This wa...