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This picture is another digital version of an old slide. Luckily this one wasn't damaged and did not need any restoration on it. It was taken in Malta around 1978.

Restoring old slides

Hello everyone , I am sorry but I haven't had much time to post in the past weeks. I have been working on those old slides again and here I am adding two more pictures of the ones I managed to restore.

This is how this slide showed up on my scanner before restoration.

This is the same slide after restoration.

  Location: Tarxien Prehistoric Temple - Malta.

Before

 After

 A Malta bus (xarabank, karozza tal-linja) was both the bus used for public transport on the Mediterranean island of Malta and also a major tourist attraction on the island, due to their unique appearance grounded in the bus ownership and operation model employed on Malta. Prior to 3 July 2011, when the network of service bus routes on the island was taken over by Arriva . Malta had several bus types no longer in service anywhere else in the world.

 (Source: Wikipedia)

Restoring Old Slides.

 Back in the days before digital photography was the norm, there were generally 2 methods of processing film: prints, and slides.
Way back in the late 70's my husband and I ... (we weren't married yet at the time) , preferred slides to prints and after all these years we still have them stored away in a box. Unfortunately our old projector broke down years ago and it has been ages since the last time we viewed them.
I thought that the best thing was to convert them to digital so I bought myself a slide scanner and started scanning them .

To my dismay I found out that many of the slides had turned to a reddish hue and others were fading, this meant that I would have had to do some restoration on them. This proved to be a long process since I had to edit each slide individually. The task wasn't an easy one but I managed to save  some which seemed totally lost at first glance. Here are just 3 of the ones I managed to restore up to now but I still have hundreds to do and it will take me weeks to scan them all and restore the damaged ones .
The pictures show the original, almost ruined slides and the restored, digital version. I am quite satisfied with my work and glad that I saved them just in time.

Before restoration.

 After restoration.

This picture was taken in Malta ... the locality is called Mtarfa and was once a British base and hospital.

Before restoration

After restoration

This is Caravaggio's "St. Gerome Writing". It is found in St. John's Co Cathedral in Valletta - Malta.

This was taken around 1978 , the painting underwent restoration in Florence, Italy, in the late 90's.

Before

After

This is the facade of a church decorated for the FESTA, a celebration in honour of the Patron Saint which in this case was Saint Joseph. The church is dedicated to this saint and is found in Msida- Malta.

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I will gradually add some more of the restored slides as I get on with the work

 so if you are interested , stay tuned.