Vintage - Pre-Digital Camera Photographs
I've been perusing my photo archives lately and decided I'd share some of the vintage, pre-digital camera images. Since I was doing a lot of national magazine work during this period, the subjects are all over the place: industry, energy, people, aerials, landscapes, Native Americans, Mono Lake, isolation, recreation, national parks - you name it. I used a variety of cameras and shot a variety of film stock: black and white (Kodak Tri-X and Ilford HP-5), infrared and almost exclusively Kodachrome for color.
A technical note here:
All the images shown here are scanned from 35mm black and white film negatives. The scanner I own and use isn’t ideally suited for slides or negatives. It does a better job with things like photo prints. The scans aren’t as sharp as the originals and if one tries to sharpen the images up (because they loose some sharpness and quality of the tonal range in the scanning process) it adds an undesirable amount of grain (or “noise” to those familiar with digital terminology). Consequently I find myself apologizing for the scans because they don’t match the sharpness and image quality of the original prints.
OK, enough of the technical stuff, on to the photographs.
A technical note here:
All the images shown here are scanned from 35mm black and white film negatives. The scanner I own and use isn’t ideally suited for slides or negatives. It does a better job with things like photo prints. The scans aren’t as sharp as the originals and if one tries to sharpen the images up (because they loose some sharpness and quality of the tonal range in the scanning process) it adds an undesirable amount of grain (or “noise” to those familiar with digital terminology). Consequently I find myself apologizing for the scans because they don’t match the sharpness and image quality of the original prints.
OK, enough of the technical stuff, on to the photographs.
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