I Got A New Camera!

Well, not really. But I did buy a book (don't tell Patty!).

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Here is an image of a lichen from our yard that I made with the 'new' camera. The curious shadows are a clue to the type of camera I used.

Here's another lichen from the yard. We've had some windy days of late and it seems these were blown out of the trees.

Here's a crop of the second image (that's a grain of sand in the lower left). One very cool feature of this new camera is the high resolution files it creates. The files sizes of the TIFFs out of the camera for the two full lichen shots were 284 MB and 189 MB respectively.

Here is another pair of images, this time of a fossil plant (which I found on one of the first adventures Patty and I had together).

Here is the full image.

And here is the crop. Note the detail in the stem and leaves.

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The book is Picturing Science and Engineering by Felice C. Frankel.

The camera is an Epson Perfection 3200 Photo scanner. A flatbed scanner that I've had since the MacOS 9 days, at least ten years. So, not such a 'new' camera at all.

The first chapter is entitled, "Flatbed Scanner" and was the inspiration for this post. I can see lots of uses for this old camera.

This is gonna be fun.