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HAHA what a funny thread title.

I have had my darkroom equipment packed away for over 10 years now. I am too lazy to set it up. I am thinking of donating the equipment to a local high-school but it's hard to let go...

He's being deliberately controversial to drive traffic to his web site. Attention-seeking, but otherwise meaningless. Did you read what he had to say about microstock a little while back?

It's not just Rockwell, I've noticed MANY photographers who have declared they are going back to film in the last few weeks, it's kindof a quiet revolution that is going on.   Last night I read another blogger who was going back.  I would never be able to go back to film unless I transitioned into a new kind of work (what would that be I wonder?)

1.  All my work is uploaded through ROES or FTP.  Me, drive to the lab twice?  YUCK
2.  I'm too much of a chimp and addicted to that LCD
3.  I'm too cheap to burn all that film when I can knock off a hundred shots of some Redpolls in the bird feeder and only keep a couple frames.

HP has a scanner that scans slides up to 2 1/4 by 2 1/4 . i used to scan my kodachrome and then post porcess them with PS. the scanner was not very expensive, and that was 4 years ago. i am sure HP has a better one for less money today.

The guy who invented "Remote Trolling". 

What he does is pick some subject. Write something absurd but marginally close to factual and waits for people to bite and discuss it. Then they come view his site to see if someone really wrote something that ridiculous. Ken labels himself as satire and humor. Most people call that an escape clause when they get caught for being full of BS and making things up.

Look it worked. There's a thread here about the million monkeys shooting stock, the million monkeys with spray and pray digital cameras, and the latest is digital is dead, which ignores all reason and logic to stretch a point and attract attention to Ken and his site.

If you have your own blog, you can remote troll and spam with impunity. This also saves him the time of going to forums and posting his ravings, because other people do it for him. The guy is a genius.

I'm sure he's a nice person and has fun with this, driving people to write about him and his site. Nice way to satisfy his need for attention and feed his ego. 

Ken Rockwell, for amusement only, don't attempt this at home.

And without? 

I have many memories on those slides, and if I had them in digital format, it would be a lot easier to share them and look at them more often. Also, if the scan quality is high enough, I believe I would even have some stock photos there.

I remember the old Leica my mom was using, no autofocus as well I was mostly shoting slides in the nineties, so auto focus was already there I still have the F70 from that time, the film cover was broken by the security people at San Francisco airport and it was on my way to vacation. Imagine being on vacation with disposable cameras only