Aswan Moon
The moon seen from our hotel room in Aswan.
For the technicall inclined: Minolat Dynax 9, Fujichrome Velvia, Tripod, Tokina 80-400 mm lens + 1.7* Tele extender (=680 mm focal length).
January 23, 2005
Random post from the past:
Egypt: an evening in Aswan.
I rented a Braun slide scanner that is able to scan up to 100 slides in one go. This could be the perfect solution for me - I have thousands of unscanned slides. Unfortunately, although this is a very good idea, the scanner itself still leaves a lot to be desired. Colours are fairly neutral, but very often, it will not correctly detect the format of a picture and try to scan a "portrait" as a "landscape" or vice versa.. It's also quite fond of simply cutting of parts of dark pictures. A nightmare for night photographers. Having said that, I was ...