ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2024
Entry 11th July 2024: Post 1: Digitizing - My last Amiga disk.
Digitizing - My last Amiga disk.
Time was I would rush home each night and fire up the Amiga plus
the SONY Handy-Cam, switch on the lights and place on the easel
what ever magazine I had purchased from the local news stand. My
time would be immersed in images of supermodels and film stars with
the intent of capturing them to my Amiga where I could manipulate
to my hearts content. Such happy days.
All this would come to an end 1998 when having spent two years in
the grasp of the Windows 95 machine I finally shelled out the cash
for a Black Widow scanner. At this point the Amiga was relegated
to the box room where she sat alone. Not before, however, I had
transferred all the images from the hard drive to HD floppy disk.
I was blessed with a Power Computing HD disk drive for the 1200
and was able to store on the PC style disks.
In 1998 I finally completed my challenge of retrieving all of my
files and so I came to the very last disk and named it accordingly.
I was discussing various methods of digitizing images with someone
on the forum and reflected on the fact that I struggled with the
quality on the Amiga until I discovered I could scan on the PC and
simply transfer the files to the Amiga. This avoided the use of
the analogue camera and the annoying bleeding of colours. Whilst
the VidiAmiga handled larger scale images to an acceptable standard
it was unable to deal with the finer detail of zoomed out pictures.
So I dragged out the disk today and reviewed the contents. It was
mainly images of a Vogue photo-shoot of Teresa Maxova with a few
pictures of Stephanie Seymour and Linda Evangelista. I have to say
the pictures didn't look too bad in DPaint. They held up pretty
well even against one of the first scanned images I made with the
PC of Daniela Pestova.
The disk was compiled in 1998 and the files date from 1995. The
models are now in their 50s with Linda Evangelista now 59.
Nothing now compares to the high digital quality of modern systems
however, as was pointed out by the guy digitizing with DigiView
you can achieve a certain retro feel using the older systems that
the modern scanning methods find difficult to replicate. I wasn't
able to fire up DigiView as I no longer have a working analogue
camera, however, there is something quite rewarding in cutting and
editing Amiga digitized pictures, if only to pause every now and
then and play Sensible Soccer.
So would I ever go back ... only if I could magically transform the
very beautiful Miss Maxova to her earlier years and have access to
the plethora of magazines that once adorned the news stands. Sadly
time moves on and even if I had the desire I certainly would struggle
to find suitable material to digitize these days. Unless you are
into Madison Beer that is .. ooh er !! Look I'm being naughty again.
Who is Madison Beer you ask... I better leave it there.
Digitizing - My last Amiga disk.
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