35MM Slide and Film Scanning Service now available….

I am available to scan 35MM slides or 35MM film and produce digital images. I realized recently that as a photographer who went digital in 1996, I have thousands of slides and film strips I have not looked at in years and likely will not. And no ability to share with family and friends! So I bought a a professional film scanner and being very familiar and competent with Lightroom and Photoshop, have developed a workable work flow for excellent results.

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I clean the slide or film. There is an amazing amount of dust your eye cannot see but shows in the scans. I then scan and save, import to Lightroom, color correct, crop, sharpen and do other processing tweaks. Then save a small (1000 pixel) jpg for email and online use and a larger image that will easily print an 8×12 (slide format) 300DPI print. I can do the same for you.

Day 3 1981-82-3The average time spent per slide is 10-20 minutes. It is NOT an automated process and results are superior to the places you ship a shoebox full of images. I will do a single slide or discount for 6, 12 or more. Film must be in strips of 4 to 6. No more, no less. And results vary DRAMATICALLY with the quality of the original film image, sharpness, exposure etc and so results can not be guaranteed. But quaility film will product quality digital images and all can be improved to some degree.

A link to examples of 40 year old slides available on request. I’ll discuss your project and pricing in person or on the phone.

If you are seeng this on my website, fill out the contact form. If on other social media, send me a private message.

~Bob

The tale of customer service…

Comcast Xfinity 510x209 (Custom)I have had to deal with numerous customer service reps – some with Xfinity and some with others. It is not enough to say thanks for being a loyal customer nor thanks for your patience, but MUCH more important to learn to say “I don’t know” rather than guess and likely guess wrong. I have known more than 90% of those I have talked to. It is frustrating.

I once trained my salespeople that when a customer asks a highly technical question they might know the answer and really be asking “are you going to lie to me?”

Xfinity fails multiple times on ever saying I don’t know, but will find out and with solving user issues.

Thursday the Internet went down at 1:59 AM. TV was fine. So either past the splitter or an error in the CO. At 7:00 I spent quite some time with a really nice tech rep who swore it was my (customer owned) Gateway (easy excuse) when I knew it was not. But lacking any other choice, I decided to go buy a new gateway.

5 minutes later the Internet came back 🙂

I assume my provisioning at their router at their switch was bad and I now had a new IP address. As you might know, this does not change often- the assigned IP from the switch to my gateway on the WLAN. Sometimes stays for years.

The problem is, the geolocation of this new IP is different everywhere depending on what site including Google is trying to determine my location! On some I am in Palo Alto correctly. Many more in Vacaville and the pizza joint there will not deliver to me 🙂 And, in MANY more KANSAS as the IP address only shows US, CST and it chooses Kansas. Really Bad. ipdata.co shows this when you check my ip: 98.xx.xxx.xx. IP2Location.com shows Palo Alto properly. I cannot find who is picking up Vacaville.

Tech Support Carla last night told me all gateways come with an IP address and only the gateway manufacturer can change it 🙂 Antonio, bless him said it gets changed in windows and who was the manufacturer of my computer??????? Obviously they have no idea the difference between LAN and WLAN and they love to guess – incorrectly.

Frustrated. I’m not in Kansas anymore 🙂 Nor have I ever been.

Antonio was Tier 2…

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OK, gets odd that some browsers properly pick up my location and some do not. So each browser might use a different API for geolocation. On the ones that find me in Kansas I downloaded an add-on that allows you to spoof your location. In my case, instead of spoofing I use it correct to the proper location. The disadvantage of this is that as a laptop, I have to turn this off when I travel and use a different IP address and back on when home near my router. So a kludge, but a workaround.

Jan

My sister passed a little after midnight ESTHappier Times-1 February 29th. I knew she would hang on until leap day just to confuse us all on when to remember her.

She was five years older than I. We were never really close sharing a difficult childhood that pulled us apart rather than bringing us together. Very different beliefs and views of the world. But my only sibling, last of any family that existed before me. She left behind three kids and a slew of grand-kids I can never keep straight as all their names begin with “J”.

No need for “sorry for your loss”. I know all my friends are, just as we all are for any friend losing a parent, friend, family member, pet or hero in whatever way they describe theirs. Or for any freedom or source of joy or security we all seem to lose almost daily. Your thoughts are all appreciated without you having to type them in.

So requesting a special dispensation from Throwback Thursday, I’ll post this from a happier time.

Gentle passing Jan…

2020

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Hard to believe 8 years or so since I started the blog here. Never really knew what I was going to do with it. Did not want to have everybody/anybody have to join to comment and yet did not know how to easily prevent spammers. And I was learning a new skill with WordPress and finding a place to send potential clients and showcase my photography.

So, it stalled.

Once upon a time I was prolific at the WeLL, even doing my best writing ever on a 1989 cross country trip following the Dead and meeting friends previously only know through pixels. I had a voice. In recent years I lost that, but I think it might be morphing and returning in a new guise. So, time to at least dust here in the corners and see what if any purpose the blog section of in4m8n.com might serve.

Populating the image galleries

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After way too much trial and error to find a great WordPress web gallery, I decided to keep it simple for now and link to Lightroom generated galleries. Just could not find something I really liked though Nextgen came the closest. But support was non-existent to fix the few bugs I just could not get beyond.

So, just a few up now to test the premise. Expect a new gallery or two a week until I catch up loading legacy pictures. Let me know what you think. Or if you know of a standalone WebPress gallery I should take a look at.

Update: Galleries have now been changed to a customized NextGEN interface and I think much more useful. Images culled. Expect more galleries as time goes by.

~Bob

A good bit of progress

Logan April 2012

Not yet ready to go live, but getting close. I have a theme picked out and then will upload a number of photo galleries, social links and perhaps affiliates. So this is now a test of BlogDesk for posting creations offline.

Have I shown this pic of grandson Logan after the back nine at the Senior PGA Championship this year?

Not too shabby for a quick iPhone grabbed shot.