{"id":8684,"date":"2013-08-01T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:09:30","slug":"the-lost-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Images……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When digital start to swoop in on us in the late nineties there was great gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands! \u00a0I even once said, :When the only way to make images is this new fangled digital stuff, I’m out!” \u00a0I figured I would be dead and gone before we had to give up film! \u00a0Guess again. Digital arrived much faster than any of us thought it would. \u00a0I remember an article in Outdoor Photographer magazine \u00a0in which a prominent writer said it would take 25 megapixels to equal the quality of 35mm film. \u00a0I’m not naming names because we all made some wrong guesses back then! \u00a0By the time digital had advanced to 12 megapixels the writing was on the wall, film was dying! \u00a0By that time I had gone to work for Nikon and was experiencing the joys of the digital age, I’ve never looked back.<\/p>\n

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I remember saying a few years ago that if Nikon (my employer at the time) had told me I was going to be their film guy, i would have respectfully said, “so long!” \u00a0I have fully and \u00a0completely embraced digital. \u00a0With the advent of 24& 36 megapixel cameras, even the view camera is obsolete (in my opinion). \u00a0[That should start some cat fights!] \u00a0Anyway I have over 25,000 color transparencies (slides) and over 10,000 B&W negatives in my files. \u00a0What can I do with them?<\/p>\n

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For all practical purposes, with the exception of irreplaceable family slides and negatives, the rest are far inferior to my Digital production of the last 10 + years. \u00a0I recently gave a company called Scan Cafe a shot at scanning a \u00a0couple of thousand slides for me and the results were pretty much o.k. The two images in this blog post are from original color slides and they translated all right, but t hey are \u00a0no match for a digital file! \u00a0So I will have the invaluable family stuff scanned, and a few black and white negatives of significance, but he rest will be, eventually, thrown in the trash!<\/p>\n

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I will soon start producing some eBooks and I plan to do a retrospective on America From 500 Feet and America From 500 Feet II<\/strong><\/em><\/span> which will tell the back storya nd contain what I think are the best images from both volumes. \u00a0Since the first book is only available as a used volume, I am anxious to put that project together!<\/p>\n

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So my countless slides are in many ways lost, they are a technology that is so distant that there relevance in today’s photography world is certainly limited by their technical faults. \u00a0As photographs they still tell a story and so many will be preserved, but as time marches on hopefully we get better and our work from the past is less important to us, as we tell the story better both aesthetically and technically! \u00a0The greatest joy is looking at the old images and remembering the fun you had producing them!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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* Both images were shot on Kodak 100Vs film pushed to 200 and that popped the grain which when reduced with noise reduction software further softens the images, one of the great issues with getting something great out of older film images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When digital start to swoop in on us in the late nineties there was great gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands! \u00a0I even once said, :When the only way to make images is this new fangled digital stuff, I’m out!” \u00a0I figured I would be dead and gone before we had to give up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}