2007-01-09
(My Blog is back after a 5-month vacation. Actually, I've written frequently, if briefly, on the ImageIngester Blog, but now I have time for this one, too. I'll write mostly about photography.)
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I've been scanning old negatives and slides lately, to try to get them all digitized. (My Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual IV, no longer made, has been OK, but it was balky until I started using VueScan.)
The pictures here I took on a family trip to San Francisco in April, 1970, just before I graduated from college. I think I was amazed at the weird hippies in this park (above), but everyone looks pretty ordinary now!
I can't remember what park it was, but another slide shows a statue (right), so if you know what park it is, please email me (link at top). Unfortunately, the lettering on the statue's base is too small, even at a 100% zoom.
The slide was flat and the colors seemed to be off, but I can't tell if that's due to age, the Dynachrome film (a Kodachrome competitor made by 3M that used the same processing), or poor exposure. I scanned it as a JPEG and fixed the colors and exposure in the new beta of Photoshop CS3 with about a minute's work. I really like its new ability to use Camera Raw on JPEGs, since I'm much more comfortable with Camera Raw these days than I am with Photoshop proper. As you can see, it was pretty easy to bring the image back to life.
Here's another shot I like from that San Francisco trip:
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My camera in those days was an entirely mechanical Konica FP SLR with a 52mm f/1.4 lens, a camera I wish I still had. I gave it away at some point--don't remember to whom.