Old Roll, But Rescanned (Patreon)

Hi! Writing these is giving me something fun to do while I can't leave the apartment, so here, finally, are the rescanned shots from the hike where my wife and I got engaged. These scans are ridiculous. Here's the Drive link; the zipped folder is absolutely enormous.

These are 6 x 9 cm slides taken with my Fujica GW690i on Fuji Velvia 50. Velvia 50 is basically the finest-resolution slide film ever developed, with probably the best saturation of any color film ever. With these scans, the grain is actually visible, so this is roughly the largest useful scan possible. With a long side of over 7,000px, you could print these two feet wide... and still be at 300DPI. There aren't a lot of digital cameras you can achieve that resolution with, including my Nikon D750.

In the same way that I love when outperforming modern cars with ancient ones, outresolving a digital camera with film appeals to me.

In addition to being higher-res, the new scans have vastly more color data and look way better than the original scans I got when I first took the shots:

Original scan, done via laying the negative flat/backlit and shooting a photo with a DSLR

Rescan, done with an actual film scanner at Panda Labs in downtown Seattle

These are all from my hike last year with my then-girlfriend. When we reached our final summit, at Third Burroughs (after five very uphill miles), she proposed.

Shortly after she proposed (she's visible in the bottom left)

Since then, we went and saw the Seattle Art Museum's Hokusai exhibition, including many of his Thirty-Six Views Of Mount Fuji. That project made me really want to shoot my own with Tahoma as the focal point, and I did manage to snag enough rolls of Velvia 50 before tariffs hit that I could, theoretically, accomplish that - especially if I used these two rolls as a starting point.

There's a fairly decent likelihood I offer these as big-ass prints in the near future, once I am confident in my ability to walk to the post office again, lol.

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

<3 Vicki