Collodion is alive and well! I just came across this Youtube video submitted by modern day exponent of the collodion process, Quinn Jacobson (http://www.studioq.com/). Seems there is quite a vibrant collodion subculture in Europe and the US. There are lost of fascinating Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
Sizing up the collection The Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project is focused mainly on the original glass plate negatives taken by the American & Australasian Photographic Co, although several albums of their 1870s photographs exist at PXA365 and PXD352, as wel Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
Gulgong now! Martin Polkinghorne of Collection Preservation and Storage recently travelled to Hill End, Mudgee and Gulgong for a short trip away and took a few happy snaps for fellow Holtermann team members. Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
Resolving the image As discussed in last week's post we have recently made important decisions on the Holtermann Collection digitisation standards. Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
It's all in the detail It's been a productive last few weeks on the project. In this time we've agreed upon and implemented a digitisation standard to encompass the entire 3,500 strong collection. Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
Digitisation Officer appointed I am pleased to introduce our new Digitisation Officer, Lauren O'Brien. Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project
The scanner has arrived The glass plate scanner has now arrived. Though officially known as a Kodak IQ3 Smart XY axis transparency scanner, I think it is already best known as the Holtermann scanner. It is one of the few scanners that have been designed to scan glass p Read more Holtermann Collection Digitisation Project