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Snapping Spring

This entry is an excuse to experiment with images in the blog (and whatever happens in the site feed).

It is Spring in the neighborhood and I was motivated to take a camera walk.  I am also making a half-way change to digital photography.   (If this were a music CD, the code would be AAD.)  I continue to use film and the N8008s that I upgraded to in 1992.  My last roll was processed and delivered on CD-ROM, with the only prints being the little index print that provides thumbnails of each frame.

Bringing home the CD-ROM has a number of advantages over the double-print order I normally turn in:  First, it is less expensive.  Secondly, I have digital images already, and I suspect the large ones (JPEGs of around 1.5MB each) are better quality than I can obtain using my desktop scanner with film adapter. Third, I still have the color negatives if I do need to do that.  Fourth, I have eliminated the normal preparation barrier before I have something I am willing to put on the web or make prints from.

The one disadvantage that I see is that I don't have prints for filing and for mailing -- now that is the barrier.  I can make prints, though I am not sure that will be less expensive, in terms of materials and especially effort.  I'll see.
posted by Dennis at 5/17/2004 11:34:18 AM