From 1984: Berlin.




And from maybe 2012? I had decided to shoot a roll of film and walked around the LES. The camera might have been the Pentax Super Program I got cheap on eBay.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

Is that first photo Checkpoint Charlie? I visited there 19 years later, in 2003 - as you might imagine, the area looked very different by then.

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It is what it is.

I was in Berlin in 1985 on my honeymoon. So many great memories!

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N-OS X-tasy!
Is that first photo Checkpoint Charlie? I visited there 19 years later, in 2003 - as you might imagine, the area looked very different by then.

Yes, that area. Berlin is my favorite city outside of New York.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

Yup, digital still can't improve upon those gradations of tone.

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Hurts like a bastid...

THANKS for the pictures of Berlin.

I went through Checkpoint Charlie for a few hours during my European vacation, back in 1990.

I came across some of my pictures from that trip while digging through photos over the past weekend! If I get a good scan, perhaps I will post it here, or on a different thread.


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Side question on your cleaning up of photos: Not sure what best approach is on photos that I have here, scan the paper or scan the negatives? Do the negatives hold up better over time? Some of my old hard copies look great, others degraded. What software do you use, if any, to clean up your photos?

THANKS for the pictures of Berlin.

I went through Checkpoint Charlie for a few hours during my European vacation, back in 1990.

I came across some of my pictures from that trip while digging through photos over the past weekend! If I get a good scan, perhaps I will post a few here, or on a different thread.


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Side question on your cleaning up of photos: Not sure what best approach is on photos that I have here, scan the paper or scan the negatives? Do the negatives hold up better over time? Some of my old hard copies look great, others degraded. What software do you use, if any, to clean up your photos?

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THANKS for the pictures of Berlin.

I went through Checkpoint Charlie for a few hours during my European vacation, back in 1990.

I came across some of my pictures from that trip while digging through photos over the past weekend! If I get a good scan, perhaps I will post a few here, or on a different thread.

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Side question on your cleaning up of photos: Not sure what best approach is on photos that I have here, scan the paper or scan the negatives? Do the negatives hold up better over time? Some of my old hard copies look great, others degraded. What software do you use, if any, to clean up your photos?

Would love to see the Berlin pics.

I'm scanning the negatives and slides. Nearly all the prints I have from that far back are horribly faded. I'm mostly using Vuescan, and my 20-year-old Polaroid Sprintscan+ film scanner. I'm making the time to do this, but it is really, really time-consuming, and I am still not at the end of the learning curve. I'm rescanning some stuff that I scanned 20 years ago when I first had the scanner, in fact, because I see quite a few that were over-sharpened in the scanning process.

Cleaning up the dust eats up more time than the actual scans, although those are also quite slow on the Polaroid. I am doing the tweaks and cleaning in Bridge and Photoshop CS6.

One thing I didn't consider when I started was that the file names needed to offer some clue about roll and what frame they're from. Calling something "cats1.psd" is NOT helpful. Now I try to include a few more clues in the file name, and the folders indicate general content and the film used, usually.

I'd recommend using a service like Dijifi for the negatives you feel would yield the best results.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals



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