Blogger Bummer

The last couple of days have been a bit rub­bish really. For starters, I had a French exam yes­ter­day. I think it went quite well actu­ally, but any exam is always a downer. Added to which, today I had a three hour span­ish les­son, which was fur­ther marred by hay­fever. And Blog­ger, which I use to main­tain this, seems to be in a state of per­petual broken­ness, so post­ing is some­what erratic. That should at least put a healthy damper on the afore­men­tioned inane ramblings!

On the upside I did man­age to develop my film, finally, and whilst devel­op­ing flim in itself is an incred­ibly bor­ing pro­cess, it does mean that I might actu­ally be able to print the pho­tos. Pho­tos of lots of things, actu­ally, flowers, rail­ways, DJ and Claire — so that should be fun. I tried scan­ning them into my com­puter, the res­ults of which can be described in four words: digital tech­no­logy my arse. That’s right, I can make bet­ter prints than my 4800 dpi scan­ner and printer, pho­toshop and hi-tech com­put­ing wiz­ardry with… a light­bulb in a box. Ok, so a photo enlar­ger is slightly more com­plex than a light­bulb in a box (it’s a light­blub in a box with a lens), but really, you’d think all this new-fangled tech­no­logy would make things easier; as it stands it takes an hour to scan 18 neg­at­ives, hideously exag­ger­at­ing the grain and with some really weird tonal abber­a­tions, so it takes another hour to fix the 3 I choose to print, and then when I try to print them, not only does the print look noth­ing like what’s on the screen, but after one 8×10 the ink runs out. Back to sil­ver prints until I get a digital cam­era I think, as scan­ning neg­at­ives seems to be about as effect­ive as eat­ing soup with a fork.

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