Retrochallenge 2008, T minus 3 Weeks

It's three weeks till July, but I'm gettting antsy.

Really antsy.

Like, this-is-the-most-exciting-thing-I-could-be-doing-right-now kinda antsy; ya get the picture?

With that in mind, my proposal for the 2008 Retrochallenge: to produce a series of images.

Let's back up:

In late May through early June, the possibility presented itself, in a new apartment, for time-lapse photography out my front window; alas, the only digital camera I have [and the only one that would functionally qualify for this anyway] is an Apple Quicktake 100 Plus; however, getting and saving and setting up images on a regular basis [automated by Applescript] was not feasible. My thoughts on that involve how the camera behaves when connected to the computer- it mounts as an external storage device, and would have to be mounted and put away on a regular basis; neither recording or writing a script would work here.

It seemed that I might not do this contest again, when another possibility came along: in this time without an analog darkroom or even the ability to process black-and-white film, this is an opportunity to get more comfortable with Photoshop, color film, and digital alternative processes.

For the Retrochallenge: I have a Microtek Scanmaker 3600; it's at least 10 years old, and I've never been impressed with the transparency scanning capabilities... since I now have another scanner, it almost got relegated to disposal. However, it is a well known fact that if something can record an image from a plate of glass, it can record it from the focal plane of a camera; it is on this principle that most of the large format digitizers [including the one at my University] operate.

In addition, scanners can do other things: they can play music, take panoramic pictures,take them in infrared, and still scan things if there's enough spare parts left over.

That's kinda what I'm going to do; specifics to follow.