Octavious

[Rob MacKillop]

Local hero, David Octavius Hill, in my local cemetery...until we moved out of Edinburgh. Every time I got a new camera I would take his image. This was with the Canon AE1P.

So, what makes those lines across the frame?

 

[Brian Moore]

Ah,...one of the great men of early photography! A worthy subject for any camera!

As to the lines,...are they on the negative? If so I'd suspect something on the pressure plate; if not I'd think it might be a scanner issue.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I’ve no idea where the negative might be. I think I gave that camera to Rhona, so it will be in London. Anyway, I’m just trawling through my old stuff, seeing what pops up.

 

[Pete Askew]

They look more like from the scanner to me.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Well, I don't have a scanner anymore...no problem

 

[Pete Askew]

Problem solved!

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

I got some scratches on on of my rolls of HP5+ when I wasn't careful sliding it through the negative holder on my scanning arrangement and a speck of dust or grit got stuck in it... It looked a bit like that. It's curious how this line isn't straight though. Nice photo though!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

It reminds me of a woman's remark as she saw the mountains of Norway in all their glory for the first time, "but it is only a heap of stones."