Gardening Excellence goes Digital

Well, it's about time that I got up to date with technology so I went out and got myself an inexpensive (OK, cheap) little digital compact camera at the weekend. I've been struggling with some beautiful but very awkward old fashioned film cameras for a while which just don't quite work as well for this sort of thing. Now don't get me wrong, I still love my film cameras (I'm still buying Olympus OM cameras and lenses but have given up on the Canon FD system after buying a duff A-1) and I still use them lots but it's useful to have a little digital snapper for convenience.Anyway, now that I'm fully conversant in the ways of digital point-and-shoot photography, I'll try to get some more photos taken of some of my gardens. Hopefully that will get me motivated to get blogging again as it's been way too long since I've written any updates. I can also make little videos so you never know, I may get my act together and do a couple of Gardeners World spoofs if I can think of anything worthy enough. I'm sure I'll be able to get some help from Cat on that one...

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Comments

Nick Steele September 16, 2008 at 5:48pm

Do you digitise the photos you take on the "old" cameras ? If so, how ?

I've been looking at a number of processing houses that offer CD's alongwith prints or slides, but few of them give any detail of the quality of the digital images they put on the disks - i'm obviously looking for one that puts a decent quality image down, so I could effectively use my (sadly neglected) Canon T90 as a "digital" camera.....
Andrew Fereday September 16, 2008 at 5:57pm

You can either scan the prints, which is what I have been doing but doesn't give fantastic results, or you can actually buy a negative scanner. You can find a 7200 dpi scanner for around £120 which should give you quite good results - I think that should be the equivalent to a resolution of about 12-18 megapixels. It's definitely worth it for your T90, assuming it still works and you've got some good lenses.
Nick Steele September 16, 2008 at 9:06pm

Its a real slog scanning each slide tho' isn't it ? I've been trying to find an economical "process and burn to CD" service, but the ones I've come across so far are very expensive if you want decent quality digital files on the CD. I have a scanner, but am trying to get away from the laborious process of manual scanning.