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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - on returning to film
From: "Bruce Nolting" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:23:19 -0700
True, but slides and trannies on a light table just look better.  ;-)

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> 
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
> > Well, I think it is a bit odd that convenience of viewing would be
> > cited as a reason. 
> Having just looked through four boxes of slides from an old trip, I 
> certainly agree. First, set up the slide sorter. At least I 
> upgraded a 
> while ago to a new one that hasn't yellowed and will hold a full 40 
> slides at once. Then pull out individual ones to view with 
> loupe on the 
> small daylight light box. And then back and forth, and back 
> and forth......
> 
> It was really crazy making after being used to the ease of a viewers 
> like Picassa, FastStone, IrfanView, etc, that allow easy browisng 
> zooming, side by side comparisons, etc.
> 
> And negs are worse. You can't really tell anything about them 
> from the 
> film and so many old commercial prints obscure more than they reveal 
> about what's available in the neg. When my younger son was a kid, my 
> late wife got matte finish prints to avoid fingerprints. They 
> are 3.5x5 
> inches with a sort of pebble finish. You can't see any detail 
> in them at 
> all!
> 
> Moose
> 
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