Mt Spokane Photography said:
I don't recall seeing color images from WW II, so I find these interesting. I do have some color print film taken in the 1940's or early 1950's by my parents, but the color is virtually faded away, along with the rest of the image.
http://www.cnn.com/style/article/iwm-ww2-color-photography/index.html
Thanks.
A friend several years back sent me a picture made of him in his high school football uniform. It had faded to red and yellowish white. He wanted to use the picture in a booklet he and siblings were preparing for their dad’s birthday. A black and white result would have been OK.
I scanned it in using Vuescan, probably using the RAW file, but I’m not sure by now. I was surprised at how much detail and color were retrievable by ACR. The result was quite usable in color. It still looked somewhat like an old print, and would have likely looked over-corrected if I had aimed for anything else. I’ve had decent luck with some old Polaroids and even a daguerreotype.
I’ve not tried scanning in any color negatives that old (early sixties). I have had good luck with ones around twenty years old. I’d try negatives before prints if I had both. Vuescan seems to do well with orangy masks from different brands. I wonder if one had a faded negative and its faded print, whether stacking the scans could recover information from both. I’ll likely never have occasion to find out.
I shot some Kodachromes back in my slide period (1966-2000), but mostly Ektachrome, Agfachrome, and Anscochrome, none of which have as much longevity. I do hope to get around to scanning in slides from my 2000 trip in Eastern Europe before they fade any more.