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Scanning New Work

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I’d thought this through as part of planning on how to complete this archive scanning project: how would I incorporate my new film scans into this archive and keep everything well organized. It was actually pretty easy. Remember the twin-check…

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Top down view of camera scanning hardware

Final Equipment Setup and Scanning Starts (And Ends)

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While I was organizing the negatives I also got the rest of my equipment together and Negative Supply delivered on their 120 carrier via kickstarter. Here’s everything I ended up using: Camera: Fuji X-Pro2 (24mp APS-c mirrorless digital camera) Lens:…

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Fort McHenry National Monument

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Fort McHenry was the last line of defense intended to stop the British from invading Baltimore during the war of 1812. The soldiers at the fort held off the British for 25 hours, the extended canon fire through the night…

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3 Fall Weekends

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I had accumulated a few rolls of 35mm from over the last couple of months and got a chance to develop them last night. Here are a few frames from 3 different weekend outings around San Francisco from the ocean…

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Weekday Morning Hill Hike

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It’s definitely a bit exceptional (in the strict definition of the word) for us to be up on the hill around sunrise during a normal weekday morning. It’s kind of nice though as it provides a different perspective to something…

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El Capitan Climbers

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Hasselblad 500c/m Tele-Tessar CF 350mm f/5.6 6×6 100TMX HC110-b See if you can spot the climbers © October 2021 It was about 7am and about 30 degrees F. The frozen fog was just starting to dissipate from the valley floor…

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Ocean Beach SF, CA

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Pentax 67 Takumar 6×7 105mm f/2.4 6×7 100TMX HC110-b Pelicans making their way South © July 31, 2021 Still testing things out here. I went through my photo catalog looking for pictures from Ocean Beach and pulled this small set…

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South Fork of the Merced River

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I’ve been preparing some pictures from a recent trip to Yosemite, we hadn’t been in several years and i brought a couple of different camera systems with me. I’d also planned to shoot some color film which isn’t something I…

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Negative Supply 120 film carrier

Finding a 120 Film Carrier

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Over the course of 2019 I finally decided I wanted to try out camera scanning. I wasn’t in a hurry, I figured I’d spend a couple of months figuring out a plan and then try to get everything together in…

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Flatbed Scanning Negatives

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From ~2004 up until around 2020 I scanned all of my film using an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. I used it for 35mm, 120, 4×5, and 8×10. At the time I bought it it was one of the best (consumer…

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