This article raises an interesting point that we see reinforced every day in our scanning service. People that are truly happy with our services embrace the use of scanned slides and negatives as a memory tool. Those that are unhappy tend to be in the camp that thinks that digitized film should look like images shot today, on fancy digital cameras.

Do you want your Kodachrome to look like Kodachrome – highly saturated colors and contrasty – or like a modern image with fluid tonalities and colors? If you use the images simply as documents of an event, the latter may be appealing. If, instead, they are remembrances of times, people and places past, meant to trigger emotion and memory and to encourage discussion and storytelling, then Kodachrome should look like Kodachrome.

Check out RedCamper for a very cool and interesting use of tourist and travel slides. We see these slides every day at Pixmonix. Many of the examples shown on the website are tourist 127 slides – particularly Ektachrome – that have faded to red. These slides recover very well most of the time. (We show an example of the recovery of this sort of faded Ektachrome slide on this page of the Pixmonix website.)

Please check out these products at RedCamper and help out a small business person who has a cool product and is trying to make ends meet in this harsh economy.

Now the real question: what the hell is Ben Stiller doing presenting the yellow jersey? And, could he have at least looked happy about it?