I recently sent emails to my transfer customers with the subject "Doorstep Pickups For Digitizing Now Available". I offered to come to their home, and safely pick up their transfer media from their doorstep. This was to eliminate the person-to-person contact we have...
I was cleaning my desk the other day and stumbled on some old film negatives that I had never printed. Since I had just written an article about Transferring Negatives and Transparencies, I wanted to scan these long lost negatives right away and see what I was...
Transferring negatives and transparencies can be a challenge if they are not typical sizes. Those that are typical sizes like 35mm, 120 and 126 can be scanned using a good flatbed scanner. But other sizes require a different approach. One recent job was all negatives,...
The Societies of Photographers is a group of UK photo organizations. The Society has awarded Dr Fong Chan Onn from Malaysia the prestigious Photographer of the Year 2019 award. Dr Fong Chan Onn, a former cabinet minister in Malaysia, is 76 years old. His photo depicts...
Google admitted it may have accidentally sent some users' private videos to strangers after a bug impacted its Photos service. While Google says less than 0.01 percent of users were affected, the user base of Google Photos is over one billion users. So 10 million...
There are a lot of good options for secure file saving. These services encrypt your files in transit and during storage. One service even encrypts the files from itself. It's called Firefox Send. They can't reveal the files to law enforcement or any other agency. The...
What do these films have in common? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Marriage Story The Irishman Little Women The Lighthouse Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Ad Astra Apollo 11 Uncut Gems The answer, as you guessed, is that they were all shot in film rather than digital...
You can find some great deals in used computers on eBay and Craigslist. For any used computer, the first priority should be safety. The vast majority of used computers are safe, but you don't know how careful the previous owner was. Are there risky files or software...
Photoshop for iPad was re-designed from the ground up. It is now a touch based app where it was mouse and keyboard based before. On the left side of the screen are the tools, although this initial release is missing some features like the Pen Tool which draws...
The Phonocut is an analog vinyl lathe which makes vinyl records and costs $1100. The machine cuts 10 inch vinyl records with 10 to 15 minutes of stereo analog audio on each side. The lathe can also cut 7 inch records. The blank records will cost about $10 each, but...
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