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Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon - Negative Scanning
It's been a long time since I've scuba dived, but I'm putting together a short presentation on a trip to Truk Lagoon back in November 1990 for my Knights of Columbus council.
Not a great underwater photographer but I'm happy with the results. I'm "scanning" the old negatives using a gizmo called "instascan" in conjunction with my iPhone. It's essentially a glorified light box station. For the non professional/average person it works pretty good. I've used outside commercial scanning services but they're fairly slow and I don't like the negs (very precious) being out of my possession. Also, want to make the best adjustments I can to the scans myself. Here's screen shots of the photo boards so far.
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That looks like a fun bit of equipment. I hope the presentation goes well.
My dive instructor showed us some of his pictures from Truk from around 2008. That was pretty cool to see. It's on my "I hope I live long enough to dive there" list. It truly is an airplane graveyard. And according to my instructor, it's also home to a very large group of black tip reef sharks. |
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I've seen pictures with a lot of black-tipped sharks, but that's one thing I didn't see there. Saw one very long baracuda.
When the trip moved on to Pohnape we saw a lot of shaks and nice eagle rays.
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Great project, Joe. The images and the slide layouts are superb.
Did you know that the current issue of Naval History magazine includes a 70th anniversary article about Operation HAILSTONE: Naval History Magazine | U.S. Naval Institute There is also an article about Hunley and one about the Confederate ironclad navy that is bound to be of interest to Corey Ertz. Don |
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Thank, Don!
I was not aware of the magazine article, thanks for the heads up. Going to see if I can get my hands on one. The more info, the better. I've found 3 different time frames for the attack - February 16 & 17, 17 & 18, and 16, 17 and 18!
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My experience.
I went through this a few years ago. I have a few thousand Slides...and just as many negatives...laying around. And I really wanted to get a few transferred over to digital. So I looked into transfer services, and those slide and negative scanners, and other expensive equipment... it all seemed a little too much to get into. Until I came across a forum and did a little reading about a particular flatbed scanner. You see, I was also looking for a cheap flatbed scanner at that time, and I was hunting through sales of older scanners looking for something that would work with Win XP. (I had to have a flatbed scanner with a decent dpi scan) I ended up buying one of the most common and cheapest flatbed scanners, a Canon Canoscan 4200. Canon CanoScan 4200F Photo, Film and Document Scanner - Canon UK In the lid of the 4200 is a removable panel, into which fits the Slide and negative holder that comes with the scanner. It has preset scanning methods once you slide in a set of up to five Slides or negatives...or you can do it all manually. Its so fast...and so easy...and the results are as good as is possible. Its a USB connection for the scanner, and updated drivers are available from Canon. I bought my scanner like brand new (used), in its original packaging, for $25. I'm sure there are still a few of these around if you hunt. Its a good alternative. ........ Nice iPhone gadget!! Is your phone waterproof? or do you put it into a case? My little HD cam is waterproof...but I 'm not. So I'll probably never find out what its like to take underwater photos. But I like looking at yours jagolden! And, where is this Truuk Lagoon? I'm confused.
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the new canon slide negative scanner is the cs9000f here awaiting price from canon
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