Tail Of The Blimp

by James B Toy

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Tail Of The Blimp

Artist

James B Toy

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Photograph - Scanned From An Eastmancolor 5247 Transparency.

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NOTE: The logo watermark will not appear on purchased products. Photo copyright James B Toy

A Goodyear blimp is moored at McNary Field in Salem, Oregon, around September 1978. The airship appears to be the GZ-20 model, known as Columbia N4A, commonly used for advertising and aerial coverage of sporting events. A large grid of colored lights can be seen along the lower half of the blimp which were used for a computerized light show as it flew over the city at night.

I shot this image on Eastmancolor 5247 film, which was primarily intended for filming motion pictures. In the '70s and '80s remnants of the film were sold by a few photo labs for 35mm still cameras. The system allowed for producing both slides and negatives from the same roll of film, which had certain advantages. But there were some distinct disadvantages as well. The negatives could not be printed by any photo lab because they required special filtration. And unfortunately Eastmancolor had a nasty habit of fading badly after as little as ten years in storage. This image was no exception. After more than 40 years the slide of this image lost most of its blue and green components, and is now mostly a magenta hue. Modern color restoration software came to the rescue! In mere seconds the colors were fully restored, and it just needed a slight boost in saturation to bring the colors back to reality.

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May 7th, 2024

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