Thursday, September 11, 1997

About the pictures

The pictures accompanying this blog were scanned from slides and negatives. Consumer digital cameras were still a laboratory dream in 1997. You really cannot appreciate how sophisticated your plain digital camera is until you have seen the scanned results of film photography. What the camera does nowadays to make your pictures look good would have required specialist techniques in the bad old days. Film was quite unforgiving and even when you got the exposure right, it would give poor colour balance in light situations the film was not suited for. With digital manipulation I can improve the quality but it's too time consuming to do more than simple adjustments using software.


I took two cameras with me on this trip, a SLR loaded with Kodachrome slide film and a point and shoot camera loaded with Kodacolor print film. As they were the bad old days, film was expensive so I had ration my shots. Shots on negative film generally came out poorer in scanning due the limited dynamic range, but the more saturated colours after adjustment with software, compared to slide film, have a certain attraction. See if you can work out which camera was used for a shot.

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