The film featured some of Henry\u2019s photos, which capture the sport at a glorious time in its history \u2014 when the cars had screaming V10 engines, and there was a famous rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. <\/p>\n
Viewers of his Jeffrey\u2019s YouTube channel wanted prints of his dad\u2019s photos, but it\u2019s not so simple. Like many photographers in the 1980s, Pang\u2019s father shot a lot of color transparency slides, which were designed to be printed in CMYK in magazines, not stand-alone photo prints. <\/p>\n
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Henry shot color transparency slides. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the 70s, 80s, and 90s, press printing was called color separation,\u201d Henry explains in a YouTube video.<\/a> \u201cLong before digital, you needed a color separation, which means you needed a positive print. Positive print means a transparency. A transparency means a slide.\u201d <\/p>\n Quest <\/p>\n If Jeffrey wanted to make photo prints of his dad\u2019s work, he would have to scan them. Unfortunately, the materials that allowed original positive transparencies to be directly printed on to photo-sensitive paper have long since been discontinued. While it is still possible to print negatives directly onto paper, positive transparencies must typically be scanned and then printed from digital. <\/p>\n Jeffrey took the slides to a photographer friend named Vince, who scanned them with a flatbed scanner and got bad results. The flatbed scans may have been good enough to share on Instagram, but the limited resolution means that if Jeffrey wanted large-scale prints, he had to find an alternative. While there are specialized scanners \u2014 both flat and drum style \u2014 that provide much better results, they\u2019re uncommon and very expensive. Because of this, most photographers elect to go a different route. <\/p>\n Jeffrey\u2019s father Henry, evidently a photographic whizz, suggested using a 36-megapixel Nikon D800 that would solve the resolution limitations of the flatbed scanner. <\/p>\n Using a 55mm macro lens, the slide holder, a copy stand, an external shutter release, a lightbox, and an extension tube, Henry was able to get much better scans of his dad\u2019s pictures. <\/p>\n While it is a time-consuming process \u2014 each photo has to be manually focused \u2014 it meant that Jeffrey was able to do justice to his dad\u2019s awesome F1 photography. The scans were so good that details such as the air being disturbed around the wake of the car could be seen. <\/p>\n The photos include incredible images of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna talking to engineers while wearing his trademark look of sheer intensity. <\/p>\n Lastly, Jeffrey visited a film lab called Foto Box in Toronto, which does chromogenic printing.<\/p>\n \u201cThese machines still use light-sensitive paper,\u201d explains Jeffrey. \u201cThese machines expose the paper exactly how an enlarger would\u2026 Then the photo travels through some chemistry, then rinsed through two more tanks of water before being run through a dryer.\u201d <\/p>\n While not a photographer himself \u2014 Jeffrey\u2019s YouTube channel is about cars \u2014 he was clearly pleased with the results of the prints and enjoyed showing his dad the fruits of their joint labor. <\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested in buying a print, you can purchase one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1980s-F1-Photographer-800x420.jpg\")
Henry and Jeffrey. <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Henry-Pang-800x446.jpeg\")
Jeffrey points to the air being disturbed around the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-07-at-14.30.59-800x449.jpeg\")
The chromogenic print appears, this particulary one hadn\u2019t been dried so it comes out wet. <\/p>\n