Digital vs Analog Comparison

I started the film page with the idea that I wouldn’t post film images on this page (unless they were reblogged from the other page). I also said I was going to post digital vs film comparisons because… because. So I guess that allows me to post a few film pics, right?

Last week I put on a record and took a spinning media picture. Pretty sure I posted it here. I also took about the same shot with the Nikon Ebay film camera too. I think everything about the digital pic is better, but I also think I prefer the film pic. Maybe I am just an old fashioned sucker.

This one is digital:

This one is film:

Isn’t that interesting?

Now we move to Methuen’s little downtown area, specifically the used record store. I’ve taken this three times, one digital and two film, one with each camera. The two Nikons have a wider lens than the Pentax, so the Pentax is zoomed in much more than the other two, but you’ll get the gist of it.

This one is digital, it’s also portrait:

This one is film from the Nikon and it’s landscape:

This one is Dad’s Pentax. Like I said, it’s zoomed in more. It also has a coloring that might be from the roll of film or it might be from scanning it with my iPhone or maybe it might be because it was within about an hour after sunrise while the other two were later in the morning. I don’t know exactly, but I kinda like it.

Which one do I like best? I think the second one. The Nikon film one. I think I will do the Pentax one again at some point. If I do, I won’t get it developed at CVS and I won’t be scanning it with my iPhone.

Now I just have to try to remember not to reblog whatever posts these film shots end up on. I can do that (but I’ll probably fail).

Leaf

Cellar window plant has a new leaf opening up!

Fixed It?

Dig it, I fixed my little wireless shutter remote. I didn’t actually do anything to fix it, but suddenly it works again. Cool!

In case you didn’t catch the hint, I took this artistic masterpiece of a photograph with the wireless remote shutter.

I have a remote with a cable too. That guy’s always worked, even though the casing is at this point only held together with happy thoughts. The infra-red wireless remote stopped working shortly after I bought it, but it’s working now. I wonder if it will work outside. I think that was a problem back when it was new. Who knows.

Spider Massacre of 2022

The spider hunt from this morning can now be more accurately called the spider massacre. The current kill count is seven. Seven spiders dead. I saw one on the wall in the corner and when I leaned in to squish it, I saw two more tiny spiders hanging out close by. I saw an eighth spider, a great big sucker, near the floor in the corner by my desk, but I couldn’t reach it. I’ll have to go back for it later.

More important than the on-going spider massacre, I ran into the most evil creature on Earth in the bathroom. A House Centipede. Vile, disgusting, evil beyond measure. The House Centipede (capitalized out of respectful horror) is the only creature that is so terrible to look at that I have legally sentenced the entire species to death. I murderlized it with merciless fury. I was lucky it didn’t try to run away when I went after it. Those sons of bitches run fast.

Lunch break is coming to an end, so let me share a photo from early this morning. I filled the bird feeders and took a picture with a blurry background. Oh, yeah. I took one like this on film too. At some point before the decade ends I’ll get that roll developed and we’ll see if it came out okay.

Until then, enjoy the digital version:

Viewing Area

The Stranger Things viewing area is prepped and ready for season four episode seven.

The Massacre at Hawkins Lab.

Spinning Media

Lunchtime photo shoot. I took two pics of a spinning record (Rush – A Farwell to Kings. Side two, track four. Cygnus X-1) with the digital camera and then tried to take the same pic with a film camera. Someday in the distant future I may be able to compare the results.

Hiss

Patches hissed at Bellana tonight. What an asshole. I demand an apology.

Bean Bag Cat

This is currently my favorite thing Patches does. Normally she runs away when I come downstairs and find her on the bean bag chair, but today she let me take two pictures. One digital and one film. Here is the digital:

You’re going to have to wait for the film.

Patiently Waiting

Jen was in the office this morning, but Patches sat in her home office the whole time. She was either patiently waiting for Jen to come back, or she was just keeping the desk warm.