Well Billy, you'll never believe me, but I just saw a horde of beggars riding by the house on some thoroughbreds...
Yep... APPLE and PS would be my prefered tools... definitely (my buddy Graham is a dedicaded MAC user and keeps asking me, "When are you going to get a
real PC...?"
Never knew that about scanners...
I have used so many film types but mostly stuck with common brands, occasionally playing with stuff that went out to 1000 or 1600asa, then Fuji for a while, but stuck with Koda-gold until I went digi - that's a nice camera you've got, but as you said, tools of the trade...
- only name I can see on the Kiss stock is "Kodacolor II film"...
I have scanned in all my family pics I have traced from family members willing to help and passed them on to all I can find... suprising how many people are just not interested in pics... one is at least 1899, as I know when he died - I have 5 of nine grt grands - all pre WW2...
Done a lot of clearing up work, but some images need tools I don't have at this time, so I wait patiently - the family negs from '88 to '03 are another project, and last will be the music negs, but then there's the writing which I have stalled on...
Define "photographic tragedy"... there was a BIG old leather suitcase, chock full of family negs, that my dad threw out prior to the pair of them leaving London and moving back to Scotland in 1989 - never asked anyone - I was gutted...
After he passed in 2001 (mum passed in '92) my aunt gave me a private photo album that had belonged to my mum; never knew it even existed; he told her to give it to a lady that was her maid of honour at their wedding saying, "I don't want these; she'll know who they are..." there were shots of her parents and family I had never seen before - over 200 of them... my aunt just "didn't feel right" about giving them away...
He gave another photo album (his mum's...?) to a cousin in Oz without consulting us - she is (reputedly) so jealous of its contents she won't even let her brother have it to scan them for me...
My last living aunt had a box of pics she gave me as "don't know who they are" - 300+ - found her parent's wedding shot in it - 1922 - only one that exists...
I found that my sister had placed a vareity of pictures she had "acquired" in a family picture frame in his hall - among them was a wedding shot of my mum's parents - around 1919 - when I found it the sun had damaged it to such a degree that my gran's face had almost bleached to nothing - the only one that exists...
Always converted them back to B&W, not retaining the sepia tones when scanned - kinda sacrilege, but that is what they would have looked like, originally...
Just need to knuckle down and finish the book research...
another good rant...
no scanning tonight... oh well...