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Topic: As Requested an Enlargement of unknown ELCO 77' |
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Mar 23, 2008 - 11:04am
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Ted, can you scan the four photos you mentioned to this website?
I'd love to see a photo of PT 59 underway as a gunboat that Dick could enlarge!
Thanks again to all you guys for these historic and fascinating photos and the enlargements of same.
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TED WALTHER |
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 Posted on: Mar 23, 2008 - 6:22pm
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Drew;
If Dick can send me his e-mail via my personal email. I will send them to him for posting.
Take care,
TED
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 23, 2008 - 9:27pm
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Ted . . .
It's webmaster@ptboats.org
Dick . . .
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 27, 2008 - 9:40am
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Wayne . . .
I took your 5"x7" Photo and scanned it at various setting, including 1000 dpi @1600 percent. It was at the point that continuous tone photograph became extremely grainy. Almost to the point of being useless. As you can see in the photos below, it is still to hard to definitively decide if the boat is 40, 46, and 48. It will have to be left to individual interpretation and opinion. Evidently the original photo was shot at a great distance and the photo itself doesn't contain the image data.
Well it was fun trying, I tried many techniques, but just couldn't pull the image out - to bad the technology that TV's CSI programs use isn't really available or even exist. The two photos below were created using different methods. The final posting size was change to 72 dpi (standard internet resolution) at 1200 pixels per inch wide.
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alross2
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Posted on: Mar 27, 2008 - 12:38pm
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Can't be 40. This one has the V shaped charthouse front, which started with 45.
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Wayne Traxel
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Posted on: Mar 27, 2008 - 5:04pm
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Hello Dick,
Thank you for the attempt. It was worth a shot at any rate.
Al is right though, this is a later series 45-68 series boat.
My Thanks again Dick.
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 28, 2008 - 12:01am
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Wayne . .
I found this great shot of depth charge rack discussed in earlier post under this subject. I barrowed it from the pt_king website at Geocities. Hope he doesn't mind. The site has great collection of photos and info, but because the photo are so large and so many, it doesn't take to many visits or viewings for Geocities to temporarily suspend the site because of the amount of download traffic.
Geocities only allows so much traffic before it suspends a site for an hour or two, then reopens it until the limit is reached and shuts down again. I haven't been able to find out who runs the site, there is no name or email. If anyone knows let me know.
PT_King's site is:
http://www.geocities.com/pt_king/PTboats
Dick . . . .
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comcardiv1
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Posted on: Mar 28, 2008 - 10:54am
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Dick,
That would be me--and no, I don't mind the use of the photo at all.
Gene Kirkland
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comcardiv1
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Posted on: Mar 28, 2008 - 10:56am
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Dick,
Almost forgot my e-mail address: pt_king@yahoo.com
Gene K.
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 28, 2008 - 11:32am
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Hi Gene,
Welcome, the photos on your site are great, as well as Research tips. Glad to see you didn't mind the photo theft . . .
Dick . . .
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