This afternoon I checked the latest batch of slides I took - four rolls, carefully bracketed in half-stop exposures. Hey! I'm satisfied! Some of these shots are really good.
Oddly enough, I knew I'd get to this point. At some point way back, I decided I'd just do whatever it took to take really, really good slides of my work. New glasses? OK. New camera? If needed. Turns out my old canonFT is fine, especially with the new macro lens.
When I make my website I'll write an article on what I learned. Maybe that will help other artists take great slides of their work in less time than it took me. At the very least, they can save some money. Now I know what really helped me, and what didn't matter. But I'm happy with everything I did. It was for the work, and it took what it took.
Many thanks to the canonFD yahoo group. It's great to have the help and companionship of many others using old manual focus canon cameras. Also I learned a lot from photonet. And of course, b&h photo has kept me supplied.
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