How many MegaPixels can your camera capture?, how fast? And how many millions of colors can you display on your computer screen? What are the ISO settings on your digital camera? What kind of film do you use?
How sharp do the pictures get?... Do you sharpen them? Saturate them?... Or do you just let the corner shop develop your film and live the lie that they do not saturate and adjust your prints?...
How refreshing is it sometimes to just let go, to relax the eye muscles and to let the world turn into a noisy blur. How wonderful can it be at times when we travel on the Autobahn, and yet not at full speed. How great does it feel when we can dim the lights at home, or even light a candle. How good does it feel to not have to eat the entire dinner, drink the entire bottle of soda, not supersize that whoppy meal...
And yet with photographs it seems to be a different story. They better be sharp, they better have the right white balance, and they better be of something that has not been photographed before... why is that?...
What if we just installed a sign somewhere in New York and all of us would just try to take the same bad picture of it... how would that be?...
Or let's try to just find the frames between the frames, the moments before the auto focus kicked in... how about taking pictures with the crappiest resolution and with all the wrong settings, and maybe not even of things that are in any way interesting...
Let's try that... for once...
I guess it has been done a lot already... and me writing this here just makes those who grew up on the David Carson diet put greasy stains on their monitors and laugh themselves sore...
And all because this picture of the drawing I recently sent away is just so horribly off... this might be the right time to get that scanner... should I get a film scanner? Do you think?... which one should I get?... I am flirting with those sexy coolscan ones... but what will I do with my large format slides?...
; )..
You'll spend a lot of money if you want a scanner that scans slides well (even more if your slides are larger than standard 35mm). The flatbed scanners which scan slides, at least the ones I'm familiar with, have always done a very poor job. I find that if working with larger format slides and you don't have access to a high end scanner such a drum scanner or 4x5 slide scanner, you can do one of two things: make prints and scan those in with a flatbed, or affix them to a color-calibrated lightbox and shoot them with a digital camera (usually macro mode, no ambient lighting other than the lightbox).
The Nikon Coolscans are indeed very nice. That DigitalICE correction algorithm can save hours cleaning up one scan. I'd go that route if you have a lot of 35mm to do.
hmm.. i was thnking about that 5000 one... ou know... SD5000?... not sure about the name...
i love this drawing... i would love to have it GIGANTIC covering the whole wall on my bedroom...
great stuff :) and love the scans from That Book :)
"how about taking pictures with the crappiest resolution and with all the wrong settings, and maybe not even of things that are in any way interesting…"
As a matter of fact, that would be a pretty accurate description of every pix on my blog.
took your advice, skipped the latest version and came home with this little cute apple...
i finally understood their logo: this is the forbidden fruit. it really is.
it is not the latest version and probalby soon a faster one arrives.
but this ones works... 10 times faster than the one before. and that's all i needed. ( i guess i was just too scared to end up with a slow one...)
anyhow, tx for the tip on the shop. they were indeed great.
nyc was interestingm different than expected, but yet awesome.