Hi Paul.
Great brochure there Paul - must be from 1969, as that style of photography was from when the machines were introduced new. I have the marketing guide to both the 1600 and 1504 (in pdf format, so I cant post them) and it uses similar photographs.
I developed a love/hate relationship with scanning, as the quality is dependent on the quality of the paper involved. Though you can make the scans HUGE, they can become heavily pixelated and you can also finish up scanning the grain of the paper too.
In the end, I gave up with scanning and instead carefully photograph brochure pages and then manually crop and tidy them up i.e copying and pasting background colours to remove blemishes.
Time consuming, but worth it generally as you get a photograph of what your eyes see, though lighting conditions have to be consistent across the page, or else you end up with contrast issues, areas of shade or shadows.
Why can't life be simple,eh?
Also not a fan of the new way of posting pictures on the forum, as they are small and the option to 'view normal size', on my laptop any rate, tends to pixelate the image. I always use the old way of uploading, which is discretely placed underneath the new fangled photo uploading box. Thank goodness it survives.
Anyway - back to the brochure - its a superb piece of Hotpoint history. I know the brochure(s) appear split over two threads. Is it one brochure for the 1600 and one for the 1504, or are the pages so far from one brochure only?
Paul
