Day 38 - Yesterday, the UPS driver delivered a new scanner for me. It is an Epson Perfection V850 Pro. It is a flat bed scanner which is capable of slides and film. I have had a lot of good luck with my Nikon 9000. The problem with it is that it is slow and very cantankerous. I need to improve my game because I have thousands of slides, negatives and photographs that belonged to my parents and sister. We hauled them back from Minnesota last summer with the intention of digitizing some for me. This is going to be a big project, but I should be able to fill in some big holes in my family photo collection.

In the good old days, we shot a lot of film with crappy cameras. My family liked the instamatic cameras. That is a film format that should have died a long time before it actually met its doom. We have a bunch that were shot with inexpensive Kodak 35mm cameras. The first real camera in our family was a Canon FT/QL that my parents gave to me about 1967 or there abouts. The quality of the photographs got a lot better with that camera. Still, I can kick myself for not spending enough time really looking at my photos at the time and learning from them.

So here is a photo taken with an Instamatic camera of my dad and me assembling a chain saw that my mom got for Christmas in 1971. I am using the Epson Scan software that comes with the scanner. In the past I have used VueScan a lot with flat bed scanners. I tried it with the V850 and didn't have much luck so I gave the Epson software a go and it seemed to work satisfactorily.