Silicon or gelatin – Look at the pictures

When it comes to my prints, I’m never really happy. There’s friction, always. As a result, I’m always searching, and this search takes me all over the place. In this case, I find myself on that decades-old divide of film or digital. No ‘versus’ debate for me – I hope we’re all past that point. But the question is still with me: how do the different processes translate into the final print?

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Hold tight – Operating an old Imacon SCSI Flextight Precision II scanner on Windows 10-x64

The Imacon Flextight scanners are a well-regarded series of scanners. They are being used even today, despite the geriatric age of some of the models. The Flextight II sitting here apparently retailed for around $17k back when in was introduced in the previous century. But a lot has changed in the world of computers since 1999. How feasible is it to run one of these scanners on a somewhat modern PC?

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