New Toys
I was out yesterday to spend some of my Christmas cash at Cabella's and Nebraska Furniture Mart is doing a winter clearance, so I decided to have a look. I did not find any good deals on anything I needed. But I spotted a nice HP scanner for about $90 out at the end of an aisle. What caught my eye is that it had an adapter for film and slides. I am a film snob about photography so if I get a scanner I want that capability. Well they only had the floor model at that time so I was out of luck. However I wandered by the rest of the scanners and lo and behold what do I see? A Cannon scanner that not only has a higher optical DPI, with a film strip adapter, a slide adapter, but it even has a 120 MEDIUM FORMAT FILM ADAPTER! All of this for only $170!!!!!
My new run at photography is to explore medium format. I have been puttering with 35mm for a while and medium format is the next step. Now I can play with slides and medium format all I want and not have to pay through the nose for scanning. Hollyking will be happier if I can finally put some of my shots up in LJ (I have not signed up for Flicker yet). I can also go into my slides and put up some of the really great shots that I have and burn them to disk.
First thing I did was scan in some of the shots I took in Sedona Arizona back in 2000 or so. I put one of them up in the photo section, it is too big for putting in here. Somewhere I have some really cool infrared shots I did of Camp Oceola that I will scan as soon as I can.
I may still have print film scanned when it is processed, but these scans are much higher quality. They just take more of my time to screw with.
Oh and I did buy what I had gone out there for in the first place. A great new pair of hunting boots. Laces to my shins, good insoles, and 1000 grams of Thinsulate. They are quite comfortable and not too warm to wear indoors.
My new run at photography is to explore medium format. I have been puttering with 35mm for a while and medium format is the next step. Now I can play with slides and medium format all I want and not have to pay through the nose for scanning. Hollyking will be happier if I can finally put some of my shots up in LJ (I have not signed up for Flicker yet). I can also go into my slides and put up some of the really great shots that I have and burn them to disk.
First thing I did was scan in some of the shots I took in Sedona Arizona back in 2000 or so. I put one of them up in the photo section, it is too big for putting in here. Somewhere I have some really cool infrared shots I did of Camp Oceola that I will scan as soon as I can.
I may still have print film scanned when it is processed, but these scans are much higher quality. They just take more of my time to screw with.
Oh and I did buy what I had gone out there for in the first place. A great new pair of hunting boots. Laces to my shins, good insoles, and 1000 grams of Thinsulate. They are quite comfortable and not too warm to wear indoors.