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A couple of years ago I had to replace my old Epson scanner which I'd had for around a dozen years. I'd got around two thirds of my slides copied and when I started scanning with the new machine I noticed a definite drop in quality. To be blunt, the new scans were horrible. Mushy, lack of detail and lots of chromatic aberration. It seems newer scanners have something in them called FARE, so instead of a basic scan you get a retouched and "enhanced" image.
I played around with the thing for months using virtually every combination of control available to me. Still awful. When I did a direct comparison with slides I'd previously scanned, the difference was unbelievable.
So I boffed it off and it's been gathering dust ever since. Anyway, I was chatting to a pal of mine a few weeks back and we got talking about those old slide copying lenses you used to be able to buy and I had an idea. Why not make a slide holder and photograph it with my camera? Would it work? Only one way to find out...
A block of wood with a square hole for a tripod clamp at one end, a slide holder made out of some brass plate and bits of aluminium found in the garage at the other and a 60mm macro lens on the camera. Gave it try just shooting against a bright white sky.
Well, here is one of the results and you can judge for yourselves. Apologies if you've all sussed this ages ago and are already doing it anyway, but I'm well chuffed with it.
Anyone want to buy a virtually unused scanner in pristine condition..?
For the record, 86227 Golden Jubilee waits at Ipswich with a Norwich - London service on 23rd September 2002.
Minolta Dynax 5000i Boots 100 colour slide
Back home 1: I'm back home after many long days and many sleepless nights
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EXPLORE Mar 13, 2014 Best position #94
Like the way she's pulled the leaves over her nursery to protect her eggs and even extended it to give her protection.
I think they have such little personalities, and once I get to know them, I can tell if they are in need of water at a glance. They live here in a little prickly pack, on the windowledge between the wood stove and the snow.
Built for the fun of it! :)
Not for any Group or Faction.
Inspired by Derfel Cadarn Siercon and Coral And Mark of Falworth.
C&C Welcome! :)
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Goethe
That peaceful and pleasant place in the middle of nowhere. Isn´t it enough?!
An old house in the oldest part of Homer, Alaska. Everything here looked a little weatherbeaten, but it is a quite harsh environment.
The last two RoadRailers were previously very predictable, then the schedule changed. Slightly less so - still better than most trains, but the window for "when 255" broadened... significantly. This day, it really hit the limit. Evening clouds were rolling in as the last hour of light was coming to a close when 255 finally came racing through Homer. We'd heard it on the radio early, suffering some kind of air issue near Danville, but it was still much later than its regular time just a few weeks prior. In the weeks since then, 255 and 256 have gotten a bit closer to the normal times, though they're still a little more random than how they were earlier in the year. But, thankfully, both trains are still regular daytime runs on my neck of the NS Lafayette District, so at the end of the day, I'm still happy.
At Homer, grain cars for the towns elevator fill out some storage tracks while the 255 blasts straight down the main. Some bits of codeline remain here too, which is nice considering how hit or miss the codeline is on the Lafy. A lot got cut down, but pockets survive, which is always a treat. A DC Gevo is less a treat, but it is home power for the last Triple Crowns, which to me, is a good thing. After all, you're not shooting the RoadRailer for the power - you're here for the trailers! Or I am, anyway.
2015.09.23
wednesday.
k o k...
what city this is. whoever guesses it right give yourself a round of applause.
... g n a b
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A gypsy way of life - making trinkets to live, and moving around the country from place to place. Home is where the heart is :)
This is an image of Christmas lights on the wrought iron fence leading to the front door of our home. This will be the first in a series of images that I want to share with my Flickr friends during this Holiday Season. I hope you enjoy them and I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year..
View LARGE or ORIGINAL for more detail if you have time... thanks....
Fuzzbutt's home after his month away taking part in the annual Dickens Christmas Project... napping contentedly, surrounded by things he finds most familiar... his burlap pillow, blogger desk, can of Innsmouth's Finest pilchards... "Elder God" trophy from KittyCatS...
Visit this location at Innsmouth, HP Lovecraft Tribute - early 1930s Massachusetts in Second Life
After shuffling some tankers into storage the Vermilion Valley Geeps return to home base near Covington, IN, on 2-20-16.
the disused house. structurally precarious especially for a large guy like me. the porch roof is about to fall off. it looked good and had to get some attention. a very long exposure for the sky plus 8 full power pops with my 430ex. there is even some startails in there
Adcuz and i went back down to the disused quarry in petersfield. another long hike and getting lost on the way home again but it was worth it
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Dunning - Benedict House - built in 1889 by William Lang which built bout 150 homes till the silver crash of 1893. Walter Dunning sold it 1898 to Mitchell Benedict and family which he served as city attorney plus involved to the development Riverside Cemetery plus Capitol building. He managed to hang on to this place where many didn't during the silver crash. 1930 Benedicts sold it then was turned into apartments.