Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice spin by the Mercury News. In reality Paco Galanes sits in the small corner of a cavernous basement, flanked by boxes and boxes covered in dust. As he basks in the faint glow of a computer monitor he ponders what kind of neg holder is needed for an 11x14 glass plate. Occasionally the hum of a Nikon Coolscan is interrupted by some muffled swearing over the lack of user friendliness in the Vuescan UI. It's been a week already. Only 9,999,372 scans to go. "Fascinating, my ass," he murmurs, as he swabs another strip of negatives with solvent cleaner. >>The San Jose Mercury News reports this: "Google releases photos of Life from morgue: Here's good news for anyone who appreciates the power of a still image. Google is in the process of putting the entire photographic archives of Life magazine online. That's about 10 million photos, 97 percent of which have never been seen by the public. Most, says Google engineer Paco Galanes "have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We're digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time.">>