I know this is not what naturerecordists is about, but I crave your
indulgence, arguing that photography is a way of recording nature, and
knowing that Naturerecordists collectively represent a wonderfully wide bod=
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of knowledge and experience.
My mother was an excellent nature photographer within the limits of the
technology of the day - circa 80 years ago: Thornton-Pickard half-plate
camera and B/W glass plates. Had photo-essays published in the local
"Queenslander" newspaper; made it into a recent Queensland Museum book
"Their Brilliant Careers" - being biographies of naturalists of note, not
generally celebrated in their day because they were women.
I have some hundreds of these glass plates. Mother developed them herself,
as she considered that locally-available commercial firms didn't wash them
properly, thus jeopardising their permanence.
Can anyone advise me please, whether there exists a scanner that would scan
these into a computer (Mac G3 - OS 9.1) and allow them to be printed as
positives.
TIA
Syd Curtis (Brisbane, Australia)
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