Rain Against My Window (And in the basement)

In the several months since I last posted, a few things have changed. I mentioned previously that I’d started to digitize my negatives.  Well, OK, I’d made a false start in 2021.  In February-ish, I started again and this time, I got through the entire 222 archival sheets of negatives.  About a third of the way through, my ancient Minolta Dimage Scan Multi 2 film scanner started giving warnings that bulb failure was imminent.  This is a (mostly) irreplaceable part.  I did find a thread on photo.net that discussed building one and even provided the source for the CFL tube.

At that point, I wasn’t too comfortable with the idea of possibly shorting or frying something with my seriously rusty electronics soldering skills*.  Nor did I love that the bulb site provided moneygram, western union or a Paypal transfer address options instead of a proper purchasing route.  So I opted to hold off and see if the bulb survived the project.  In retrospect though this may have been self-sabotage.

(*Skills I got to dust off soon afterwards when Continue reading Rain Against My Window and also reviving some Sweet Memories →