I was down in south bay today inspecting a couple systems at this lovely theater. I brought my camera gear along to get some shots for our early marketing:

The company I work for during the day has just launched its new website, designed by Wolfe Gleitsman. If you are at all interested in what a theatre consultant actually does, it’s a good place to start.

Next few days, you’ll be seeing some broken images.  I’m transitioning from Flickr to Zenfolio.  In with the new, out with the old and all that.

We stumbled upon a really tasty way to prepare brussel sprouts.

They’re super easy, here’s how:

• Preheat oven to 500F
• Clean and cut small brussel sprouts in half, larger ones in quarters and place on greased baking sheet.
• Pour a little extra light olive oil over the sprouts and sprinkle a little kosher salt
• Roast the sprouts for about 15 minutes, stirring at least once to keep them from sticking to the roasting pan.
• The outer leaves will be black or brown, and the rest of it will be nicely browned.
• Once out of the oven, drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil over them
• And serve.

Went out KAPping today with Michael L and Scott Haefner. First flight with my new controller and film camera:

A nice collection of digital images of the Naval Air Station. More to come shortly:

I’m diving into this film-scanning stuff. I haven’t yet done the high-end film scanning, but that will come. Here we have, five different options (click for full size image):

A through D were done on my Canon 8400F scanner, which is a pretty decent flatbed with a film tray:

A & B: 1200dpi scans, B has an unsharp mask applied. Both have dust removal at “medium”, total time is about 2 minutes per frame.

C & D: 3200dpi scans, D has unsharp mask applied. Dust removal as above, total time 8 minutes per frame.

E: Costco 2000dpi scan on the Noritsu Koki — This is about $2.50 for the scan & CD above processing. I was glad to see that the pointilism in the blurred sections is not on the film, but is some artifact of their scanning process.

The one thing I will say about the Costco scans is that their color correction and curves are quite good. They do not dust the scans at all, and the pointilism thing is just annoying. For what it’s worth, I can do low res scans (600dpi) on the Canon scanner, including the unsharp mask for preview images at less than 45 seconds per frame. See here for an example.

So it is looking like I can do pretty much anything for web-use on the Canon scanner, reserving film scanner time for things I want prints of, or really need to work on.  The rest of the gallery is here, with lots more images & test parameters.