I have a new film scanner, and I’m trying it out on some old stuff until I get more film in the mail to shoot. I recently found my long lost film camera, and I missed it dearly, so I expect to be shoot much more film in the future. Esp. of note is that this new one is flatbed, and thus I can scan around the edges of the frame, using roughly the methods described here. I haven’t exactly figured out how to completely eliminate Newton Rings, but they’re pretty small at this point, so they’re usually easy enough to clone out.

On an interesting side-note, I also found a post on a blog I read that suggests a good method for using Automator to import photos into Aperture when I scan them initially into Photoshop (since Aperture doesn’t allow for importing from a scanner). That helpful tip can be found here.

This has nothing to do with my photography so much, but it seemed like kind of an interesting fallacy that worked out in my brain that might actually be pretty convincing to people who want to believe it (and won’t even be realized as a fallacy to plenty of people who don’t want to believe it. I was wandering through this economists forum, kind of observing what economists think about affirmative action, or the idea that university departments seem to favor women and minorities in hiring practices, etc. One or several people brought up that a department might hire somebody who came from a disadvantaged background because they had to work harder to get where they are, ergo it shows a higher work ethic. This elicited my response below, which is probably totally bogus in most every case, but it’s an entertaining mental train.

“Nothing much to add to this discussion, other than a point of irony. Isn’t giving extra weight to a person who had to work hard to get where they are self-defeating? I don’t necessarily believe this is always the case, but suppose that enough people give someone a break who appears to be underprivileged so that they might not have to work hard at all to get where they’re going. It could be like a Ponzi scheme with people giving preferential treatment instead of capital.”

working on it.