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Adventures in Half Frame Negative Scanning: Roll #2
I scanned another roll of negatives from the Olympus Pen half frame camera, this time using old expired black and white film that I found at a thrift store. It was cheap so I thought I’d try it and get … Continue reading
Don’t Read The Fine Print
I updated my iPhone astronomy app, “My Messier”. Check it out. The text size can now be adjusted, and it supports the iPhone X screen size. I read somewhere that you can determine a person’s age pretty accurately by the … Continue reading
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Kirk is 101
The actor Kirk Douglas is one hundred and one years old today and reportedly doing great. This year I read his autobiography, “The Ragman’s Son”. It was another of my parent’s old books, a yellowing paperback that had been on … Continue reading
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Read, read, read.
I finished reading the book “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck. It’s about a family struggling to survive, leaving Oklahoma during the Dustbowl and Great Depression and their journey to California. I’m not writing a book report or … Continue reading
Adventures in Half Frame Negative Scanning
I still shoot on film, and I recently scanned my own negatives for the first time. I use an Olympus Pen FT single lens reflex camera, which takes photos in half-frame format. Using a roll of 135 format 35mm film, … Continue reading
I Made An App.
I released my first app. Check it out. It’s an astronomy quick reference, called “My Messier”, for iPhone and Apple Watch. When Apple Watch was announced, I thought I’d write an app for it (as an excuse for getting one.) … Continue reading
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