Help! Condensation on lens!

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks Mike,
The image is at
http://fp.mazeweb.plus.com/images/fix_image.jpg

Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated!

Maze wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks Mike,
The image is at
http://fp.mazeweb.plus.com/images/fix_image.jpg

Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated!

This one’s a toughie. I can get recognizeable faces, but not much more.

Maze wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks Mike,
The image is at
http://fp.mazeweb.plus.com/images/fix_image.jpg

Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated!

This one’s a toughie. I can get recognizeable faces, but not much more.

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks Mike,
The image is at
http://fp.mazeweb.plus.com/images/fix_image.jpg

Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated!

This one’s a toughie. I can get recognizeable faces, but not much more.

Sorry Mike, I forgot to say thanks for taking the time to have a look for me! Anything you can get would be great.

Maze wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:

Maze wrote:

Hi all,
My parents have just got back from India, after their 30th wedding Anniversary Holiday. They took a photo of them and their guide, but the camera had just come out of an air conditioned car into the humid air, and the lens had condensation on it. The picture is very bad, and they’ve asked me to try and recover it. I’ve had a go, but the photo is washed out, and quite blurred, and I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I am looking for ideas, and am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I can post the pic online if that is any help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sure- put it online and some of us will see what we can do.
The washed out part can probably be fixed. The blurring may be harder. —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks Mike,
The image is at
http://fp.mazeweb.plus.com/images/fix_image.jpg

Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated!

This one’s a toughie. I can get recognizeable faces, but not much more.

Sorry Mike, I forgot to say thanks for taking the time to have a look for me! Anything you can get would be great.

LOL – no problem. I’ve put the image away for a bit and will give it one more shot later. BTW – if you have the permission of the people in the picture, I might like to make this a tutorial.