Photography thread

I have them on my Facebook page and I am linking the url here, it displays them at that size.

 

Great stuff everyone!

At the risk of being hung for blasphemy I would like to submit not photos, but two stills from video.

Two of my favorite recent fall images:

 

I would love to spend a longggg weekend in your back yard. I always seem to be in a rush when there, it would be nice to slow down a bit and take it all in.

 

Try this.

 

What a difference!

 

I could post pictures like that all day of the roads in the Bay Area. Sometimes it's hard to decide if you're there to ride or take pictures! If you come this way again let me know. Rent a bike and I'll show you...

 

Before the digital age the photos I have are all on film, the trip down around what I believe the locals call Skyline blvd? that has Alice's restaurant on it, that area is just to nice to believe when it comes to the scenery vs. roads and of coarse the type of vehicles ones witnesses. One of these days, maybe a deliberate trip needed just to take in the whole area.

 

Snow Patch Spire in the Bugaboo's, BC. Out of my fun zone and climbing capabilities. Watched 2 guys climbing it from near the top of Bugaboo spire which is next to it but a much easier climb.

 

Back in the day when I used negative film, I stored my photos in a Photo Album. Now, with digital being what it is, I store my photos in a 300GB hard drive.

 

I think Slesse here in Chilliwack is very similar to that spire, but very much smaller. It is a very popular climb. It is also a memorial for a airplane carrying a football team or something that struck that peak back in the 50's I think. They never did recover the bodies.

I have flown over Slesse in the RCMP helicopter searching for a lost hiker so 15 or so years ago. The search did not have a happy ending unfortunately. That aside, there were gorgeous views from up there. We were flying fairly close to the sides and top. I think we were up there for a couple hours, but not sure.

 

WalMarts in the US will still process color negative film (Process C41) in both 35mm and 120. The film is sent out to one of the "wetlabs". 35mm film is returned not as a negative but on disc. The trick is to state clearly on the envelope "NO PRINTS". Current pricing sans prints is less than three Canadian pesos. Costco may have a similar service (??)




Film is not dead. There are more types of film for view cameras (4X5") than one might imagine. No more 220 that I know of.

Film negative and positives can be scanned and dropped into several of the post processing programs. The better scanners are standalones and will scan up to 8X10" film stock. For 35mm, a great buy are the devices made by Nikon that are dropping in price. Flatbed scanners by Epson are great. Again, bring money..

Medium and large format digital backs are available for cameras as well as cameras built that way. Bring money!!! Last I looked Leica had one that was recently replaced and was on sale for 18K USD..

 

I have a cheaper Epson scanner that I use when I want to digitize an older photo. I don't pretend to say they come remotely close to National Geographic quality, but it does a pretty good job. I have never tried to scan a negative directly but it says I can do this.
I have been saying for a long time I will take all my old negatives and put them into my Safety Deposit Box at the bank but have yet to do that. Maybe today...maybe not.

Eventually, when I have nothing else to do, I will scan all my printed photos from 35 mm into the hard drive. Then again, when I am dead, no one cares about my pix. Shit, most don't care now.

 

As a computer geek and knowing that "What can happen will happen", I would advise people to print everything that they truly cherish.

A solar flare can wipe out our data, and I expect this to happen. A paper copy can always be digitized, but a corrupt or lost digital is gone for good.

The other thing is that digital data is not robust, but it naturally loses its integrity. It takes a very very long time, and also is accelerated when backups are made but the backup is not tested at a byte level for integrity. AKA, eventually your CDROMS will lose enough data and stop working. They have already lost data, but the player makes guesses and fills in the gaps, so you have not noticed.

A fire safe is a good place for film and print archives.

I have a Minolta Dimage Film scanner. These things are awesome. I made a six month project in the early 2000s and made a proof sheet of all of my film and slides (a proof sheet is a sheet that shows small versions of all of the pictures from a roll of film.) I know where these 3-ring binders are and so I can quickly find the proof sheet and film, then get a high-quality scan from the film for printing or sharing.

I am most concerned about my digital pics. I have printed almost nothing. After all, that is why we take digital: There is no print cost! But again, read line #1 above.

 

Good advice Knight..thanks

 

Can't help but like someone who solves his own problems..

 

Adding to this, we should be watchful for plagues of locusts, tsumamis and Donald Trump being the next POTUS.

 

So If Donny Dump becomes POTUS, will he be able to go to the UK?

A little off topic here, and I don't like to get too far involved in politics, has anyone noticed that the film about how he got to where he is, and that Mighty Planes episode seems to be on just about every fucking channel most days. I can't help but suspect he is behind that airing of those two programs as often as they are aired during this campaign.

I think Reggie should run for POTUS and we can show videos of R3 over the years every day as a campaign strategy. Makes about as much sense as the crap flowing from below that bellowing locks of blond hair. Then again, look who we just elected. My oath. I'm worried.

 

The Minolta Dimage scanners were good about 10-12 years ago. Unlike a flatbed scanner they do not scan prints. The Epson standalones run from aboot 180 pesos to over 800 pesos and will accommodate film sizes from 35mm to 8X10 negatives or transparencies and prints. There are aftermarket carriers for the oddball size film stocks that have come and gone. Flatbed scanners will also scan panorama pix, magazine and newspaper pix, and even tintypes and any other of the original photo chemistry processes. On the upper end of the Epsons scanning and auto clean up for really bad B&W is done in a special film holder that uses liquid with the software. Many other features including the ability to read printed work and converting same to several types of document types.

Data loss in pix? Yep, in JPEGs. Several of the other type files? I don't think so. Everytime a JPEG is "used" it loses data. Not a biggie on pix on the net anyway.. For quality prints, a real biggie.

Print costs? If we are talking a dime a pop for small machine prints where ya print every neg then that's not bad. Lots of mail in labs that are now printing on metal, ceramic, hardboard real and faux canvas ect. One more of those bring mucho pesos things.

If ya got a shitload of digital pix on a hard drive, and are waiting for the next solar flare or a bad dream from "San Andreas" , put em all on a DVD disc and put the thing in a light tight box. If we have a solar flare big enough nobody is gonna give a shit one way or another.. Me, I'm laying in all the freezedried Jo-Jo's I can lay me mitts on.

Sidebar: Up here in Ogeron on the coast, they expect a tsunami. Probably had one or more already since they can be really small. So locally in low spots along the coast they put up some really nice signs stating that the area was a tsunami zone. The signs got gone in just a few weeks and became collectables. Another theory that was floating around was that the signs were attracting surfers from California who were corrupting the natives here..

 

Sure, then on to Damascus draped in a three piece Brooks Bros suit. IMO you could become the official guy to keep him from going to Canada for anything.

He has big bucks explains that. What is telling are the audience shots of his stump visits. Kind of like somebody rounded up most of the People of Walmart for a photo op.

I see other of the Canukistan faith are not happy with your new PM. At least we can be sure that if he and Trump get together, there will not be issue unless there is some really big things going on medical science that is not being published on the net..

 

Digital storage. I have a copy of all my important images on hard drives and solid state drives and on Blue ray disks. I save all originals in Raw format or mastered edited in Tiff format along with a high res jpeg. And jpegs only lose quality when they are actually compressed. Opening and closing a jpeg does not do anything to the image. If you do anything to the jpeg then save it again you will lose a bit or 2. Jpeg's these days are actually very good. But for the real important and big stuff, raw and Tiff 16 bit. My images are in a fire safe inside of my much larger gun safe.