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Originally Posted by thecatspajamas
There is a guy who takes old b/w baseball photos, digitally "colorizes" them in photoshop (similar to what Scott was suggesting, but all done digitally), and sells prints on eBay and elsewhere. The name, user ID, and whether he's tackled this one or not all escape me, so this post may be pretty much useless 
I know he's posted on here before though, so perhaps he'll see it and either help you out or make that his next project.
Scott, I would love to hear specifics about the print quality of the Conlon photos you spoke of. Pretty sure I know of where you're talking about getting them, but have never been able to pull the trigger at those prices, so I've not seen any of their modern prints in person. PM me if you want (once you've caught up on your sleep after last night's auction). |
Lance, you HAD to have won a few last night? I went to bed around 10:00 Pacific, so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.
The problem with the prints we allude to is that they do not have the richness and depth of original vintage prints - not even close, in my opinion. In addition to all of my silver gel original prints, I have a few nice vintage platinum prints. I have no idea if these 'new' version platinum prints are of better relative quality than the silver gels, but I will leave other, more adventurous collectors, to run that test (I would love to hear someone disagree with me regarding the silver gels - perhaps I just got a bad batch?)
Regarding the digitally-colored Conlons - the good ones are incredible. I bet someone has already done that to the 'sliding' image.