Digital Age
Analog or Digital?
At the start of this century when digital cameras became available a decision needed to be made if I wanted to continue with film or change to a digital camera. My Nikon F-801s is a decent camera. But it is not digital.
The highly developed film quality was still giving better results than the early digital cameras. I had already accumulated a large archive of slides and photo negatives. And my parents also had a decent stack of 120 (6×6 cm) en 135 (24×36 mm) negatives.
Scanner
Finally found middle ground by aquiring a high-end negative scanner. This allowed me to extend the useability period of the F-801s and still create digital images for Internet use.
After having the film developed through a photo shop it was immediately scanned at high resolution. Simultaneously effort was put into scanning all old negatives where possible over the years.
After over 15 years, two major scanner overhauls and one scanner repair, a milestone was finally reached. Over 15,000 negatives and slides scanned into 600 GB of data. Finally fully digital!
Analog Images in Digital Age
This allows sharing of old family pictures.
Look back on photo assingments of the 1st photography course.
Reused old photo portraits.
And put more recent analog work online.
Camera
The quality of digital cameras has improved significantly since then. And there is hardly any place where you can get film developed these days. Eventually the switch to digital camera happend some years ago. Also for the obvious reasons that you can check results immediately and publish easily on websites and social media.