Did you post this young lady as a PESO a few years back? I think I
remember seeing it.
On 8/1/2025 10:39 AM, Bill wrote:
We'll get the random stuff out of the way.
At the end of April I decided it was time to pack it in. I was working
in a warehouse and as old injuries from crashing cars and motorcycles
were becoming increasingly painful, I made the decision to walk away
while I could still do the job.
I might go back to work at some point, but I'm comfortable enough to be
able to be very picky and am quite happy to be retired.
The only other things of note that have happened over the past while,
we lost our much loved Rottweiler to cancer back in January and a few
weeks later adopted a Mastiff cross. We aren't quite sure what she is
crossed with, but whatever it was, she isn't Mastiff sized, which is
nice. I may have posted that already, I'm not sure.
Anyway, meet Luna:
https://flic.kr/p/2qKhTGL
Now to the more on topic content:
Before I joined the PDML in 1997 I was a pretty avid and relatively
talented photographer. I had done a few gallery shows, won a few
contests, taught a few seminars, and was recognized locally as one of
the photographic peers in the community.
Times have, of course, changed, and now I am just another hack with a
digital camera.
I have come to accept this fact.
But, I have a huge pool of negatives, many are pretty good images, some
even won awards, and I wanted to digitize them and give them a second
chance at life since I gave up the darkroom about the same time I joined
this group and shifted my attention to what I recognized as the future
of photography.
So, I built myself a film scanning station based around the Fuji X-T5.
You can see what it looks like here:
https://flic.kr/p/2rimmKZ
Colin Brendemuehl was kind enough to acquire some Beseler 45 masks for
me, and everything is sized around those film carriers, so I can copy
anything that a Beseler 45 series enlarger would hold. I have masks for
35mm, 6x7cm and 4"x5"
Using the pixel shift mode on the X-T5 I am able to scrape ~124mp files
from my old 4x5 negs. Admittedly overkill, but I went that way because
my other option was closer to 32mp.
So far the results are pretty good:
https://flic.kr/p/2rhKA1B
https://flic.kr/p/2rhR6bh
https://flic.kr/p/2ri2Yz1
https://flic.kr/p/2rjvDgt
https://flic.kr/p/2riEGDa
https://flic.kr/p/2rjBkFJ
Enjoy
bill
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