Havjarl

[Keelman]

Owned by A/S Havprins, Norway, this 11,079grt motorship was built in 1954 by Kockums of Malmo as a convential bridge amidships tanker, she was later converted to a dry bulk carrier.
This August 1962 shows her complete with new self unloading gear installed by North Eastern Marine at Wallsend.
Beyond her bows a new Everard coaster from Clelands is taking shape.

[teesships]

What a great shot of a ship I saw myself during a Tyne river trip on 8 August 1962!
That would be the PENELOPE EVERARD, launched 3.7.62, ahead of her.

Ron

[Poyntonian]

Yes, a great shot. I saw her on a Tyne trip in the August of that year (maybe the same trip/day as your photo?), but my pic is only b & w with a cheap camera.
Later converted to container vessel in 1967, then back to a bulk carrier in 1972. Finally broken up as ARABIAN LULUAH in 1985.

Very impressive these 1960s pics, clear & the sun always seemed to shine! Presumably these were all slides? What type/make of scanner do you use?

[Keelman]

I'm pleased you're enjoying the pictures Mike. The truth is that as a rule I wouldn't take my camera out of its bag if the sun wasn't shining! Nowadays when I think off all the opportunities I must have missed my eyes tend to glaze over!
I used Kodachrome slide film which in the early 1960's was only rated at 25 ASA which meant it had a slow emulsion and didn't cope with dull lighting conditions very well. The film was eventually uprated to 64 ASA which made quite a difference.
I have a Nikon Coolscan V scanner which I bought some years ago at what I considered an outrageous price, particularly as it can only accept 35mm mounted slides. Most of my scanning is now done with a Canonscan 8800F scanner ( which is no longer available since Canon have introduced newer models). My reason for buying the 8800F is that not only can it scan four mounted slides at a time it also accepts 35mm film strips, and my medium format monochrome negatives which were produced with an Ensign Selfix bellows camera. The 8800F can also scan photographs and documents up to A4 size.

Regards.

[Poyntonian]

I remember the 25 & 64 ASA Kodachromes, good films.
I asked about scanners because I may be looking for a dedicated film & slide scanner. I have a Cannon printer/scanner which has attachments for both slides and 35mm negs, but it is very slow scanning these, particularly on the highest DPI setting.

[Dennis Maccoy]

Like Keelman I purchased a Nikon Coolscan V about 9 years ago and it was expensive - however, it's still in regular use and the results are good. In addition to the slide mount adapter it came with a strip film adapter that can handle 35mm strips up to six frames. After changing to 64 bit PC about four years ago the scanner refused to work and I discovered that Nikon at that time did not support 64 bit systems. However, after acquiring a software package called VuScan from a US organisation called Hamrick software (http://www.hamrick.com) for about $28 activity was restored. Some time later the Nikon Scan software came back to life without any (conscious) input from me, so I now have two options for using the scanner.