A few months ago I received an email from West Coast Imaging announcing their annual Thanksgiving Tango Drum Scan Sale.   It had been over a decade since I had last used my large format camera and maybe as long since I last looked at old transparencies.  I knew there were some images packed away in now obsolete ready-load film boxes stored with old tax returns.  Images that I should revisit and see if they were worthy of a very high resolution digital scan.  

It is amazing to me that so much time could pass without being behind the ground glass.  But a lot changes in life and a lot has changed in photography.  But there is still nothing like viewing transparencies on a light table, especially large format 4x5 inch Fuji Velvia.  

I sent a total of five new images to WCI for high resolution scanning using their Tango Drum Scanner, which gives a 600mb file with a resolution of roughly 12,000 by 9,000 pixels - simply amazing.  

Round Pond - On a light panel.

Round Pond - Cropped

Here is the first image - on the light panel (iPhone shot a little washed out not quite the same as in person) and the initial processed file in Lightroom.  

This is a photograph taken at Round Pond at sunrise on October 10th, 2004.  Round Pond is a short hike from the trailhead along Highway 73 in the Adirondacks.  The pond water was very still creating an amazing reflection of the birch trees which had lost their leaves and the surrounding trees which were at peak fall color. I used a 210 mm Nikon lens (~65 mm equivalent for 35mm cameras).  The exposure was 3 seconds at f/32 on Fuji Velvia with an ISO setting of 40.