Improvement of Scarborough Photographs

[Tony Freeman]

The attached two images are early photographs of Scarborough, England.
One is fairly faint and the other is blurred.

I have tried to improve them but with minimal success.

Can anyone else do a better job?
All help appreciated.

[Trishanne]

I've had a go, but don't know whether there is much difference.
Pat

[McGroger]

Had a go at the second one.
You might need to work on a really high resolution scan, Tony, to get much improvement. I tried an "FFT" filter - which a few of us talked about on here a year or so back - to try to get rid of the banding without losing sharpness, but my experience with the filter has been that it only works about one quarter of the time.
Peter

[Tony Freeman]

I've had a go, but don't know whether there is much difference.
Pat

Thanks for your help.
It's pretty hard to make much of an improvement.
Unfortunately, unable to obtain any better scans

[Tony Freeman]

Had a go at the second one.
You might need to work on a really high resolution scan, Tony, to get much improvement. I tried an "FFT" filter - which a few of us talked about on here a year or so back - to try to get rid of the banding without losing sharpness, but my experience with the filter has been that it only works about one quarter of the time.
Peter

Thanks for spending your time trying to get something better.
I tried various de-blurring programs on the Internet but they did not live up to their write-ups :-)

[Treetotal]

I had a go too Tony but couldn't improve on what has already been done 
Carol

[Tony Freeman]

I had a go too Tony but couldn't improve on what has already been done 
Carol

Thanks for trying Carol ... much appreciated :-)

[DrDude45]

Had a go at the picture of the bridge in Scarborough. Hope you enjoy!

[Tony Freeman]

Had a go at the picture of Cliff Bridge in Scarborough. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks a lot Dr Dude :-)
Looking better