Geoff Charles, Photojournalist

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Original, master file captured in uncompressed TIFF format. Minimal tonal adjustments using levels and curves in PhotoShop. Master files archived as pc format TIFFS.

On-screen display files resized and adjusted for viewing on gamma 2.2 monitors in PhotoShop and saved in JPEG format.

8 negatives were scanned simultaneously on a Heidelberg Nexscan F4100 capture device using Linocolor v6.0.4 software.

Filter settings: light contour-0.5, dark contour-0.5, smoothness-0.6, contour width-1.0, scan spot size-4.0.

Target resolution for hi-res capture was 300dpi at a factor of 450% resulting in +/- 6000 x 5000 pixels; screen res:+/- 600 x 500 pixels at 72dpi; screen-res and thumbnail copies use jpeg compression at setting 7 in Adobe Photoshop v6.0; 8 bit grayscale; hi-res TIFFs Gray Gamma 1.8 icc profile embedded.