Specialization is for Insects

I finally finished sorting through the pictures from our trip to California and Hawaii this past summer.

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I recently uploaded pictures of Yosemite from 1996. These are significant because they are about the last pictures I took with slide film. From the time I first started photography till 1996, I used slide film. I believed that slide film was somehow superior to print film. Then I read something profound on photo.net. To paraphrase, if you want your final result to be a print on the wall, you should use print film.

As you might guess, my next photography task will be to scan negatives (or maybe the prints) from 1996 until July of 2004. In July of 2004 I bought a digital camera. Let no one accuse me of being an early adopter.

It has taken me over 6 months to scan my 2000+ slides. While waiting for my scanner to do it’s thing, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the digital photography revolution. Every once in a while I’ll read a blog post by someone lamenting the death of film. Trust me, I have lost almost nothing by abandoning film.

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I recently posted a few more pictures from the summer of 1990.

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I finally started scanning some old slides and posting them to my gallery. The first batch are pictures from the BSA Troop 621 1990 European Super Trip. They are scanned from slides with an Epson 4990 flatbed photo scanner. Despite my best efforts with both canned air and Digital ICE technology, there is still a lot of dust and scratches on the images.

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