Money can't buy happiness, this is true.
You know what money can buy? A new scanner!
A new scanner makes me happy.
I knew my old scanner was on it's last legs. I tried my best to muddle through. I chose to spend my money on film or lenses or more Holga cameras rather than a piece of computer equipment (I am all film after all, computer is not my end game). Well after ten minutes with this new scanner I now realize how much time I wasted *fixing* bad scans. You see, my negatives are almost always perfectly exposed/processed but my scans were horrific. I tried scanning prints but they looked even worse. As a result I scanned very little. There is not much motivation to scan and share work with the Internet public when my lovely work looked like poo.
No more!!
Here is the first print scanned. An 8x10 that I chose for this test because it made me crazy last year when the old scanner rejected it over and over. Less than 20 seconds with the new scanner and I have a scan that looks close to identical to the original print, with no adjustments.Raw scan just resized. (as always, click to view larger, if you're into that sort of thing!)
The first 120 film scanned. Myself last week on the top of windy Butterpot Hill with a Holga Fisheye.
Lastly the first 35mm scanned. Look ma, no adjustments!!
And now I feel the need to rescan every single bad scan I have and redo my entire website from scratch. So it goes with spending money. One things leads to another. ;)
p.s. It's safe to expect a flood of photo posts over the next few days.
