Scanning

I knew I should have bought the 3590. Epson Perfection 3590 Photo scanner that is. I bought the 3490 under the misunderstanding it was the 3590. What was I thinking?

On the face of it there aren't many differences. They both scan negatives and convert them in to digital jpg files. So that's good but the major difference is that with the 3590 you have this little thingamajig in the top that you just feed the negatives in to and it scans them and then pops them back out. With the 3490 I have to manually take the special adaptor out, manually feed the negative in to the correct slot, put it back in to the scanner and scan and keep repeating for every slide. Not good. It's turning out to be a slow and tedious procedure and I am going to go completely insane doing it. But me being me I will have to persevere until I have scanned all my negatives and have got them all burnt on to disk. I can't leave a job part finished. I just hate it when the perfectionist in me comes out and I just have to keep at something even when I'm starting to hate it.

What's the bet that Richard won't let me go and buy the 3590? LOL!

Oh, well, I'm going to cheer myself up by buying a can, or two, of compressed air to blow the dust of my negatives. That'll cheer me up!

On a good note I am loving the pictures I am rediscovering. Too cool and I now have all these retro 80s layout ideas going around in my head. And strangely I am finding myself singing 80s songs whilst I'm scanning them too.

Here's one of me and my dad, now no laughing, I'm looking very 80s glam!