Mamasan and dog

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I finally upgraded my scanner to an Epson V700. There are a lot of old slides I have that I've been wanting to scan. This picture is an early one of mine. In 1958 I was 13 and living in Japan. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Tachikawa AFB close to Tokyo. I spent the summer working on base and spent some of my hard earned money on a 35mm Petri rangefinder. That's also the one in my avatar. Not actually the same one. I gave the original one to a friend in the 1970s for parts. Dumb! Thanks to the miracle of eBay I have one just like it.

That's the one in the picture. I think I paid $25 for it. The picture of the Japanese house was taken with that little Petri, shooting Kodachrome, when I was 13. It's not that bad!

The first scan I did was in the slide mount. The slide mount cropped the top of the roof. The slide was pretty dirty, too. I found some archival cardboard slide mounts at InkJet Art and already had some Pec-12 and Pec*Pads to clean with.

After removing it from the slide mount, and cleaning it, it made a much nicer scan. Much more sky above the house. (There is less in the final photo because I rotated it a little.) Also, a lot less retouching! Just a few hundred boxes of slides left to go.

It's been a busy week. I have lots of links to get up. Hopefully, this weekend.