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Almost thirty years ago, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, I made the decision to mostly use transparency film instead of negatives.
They would take up less space, and there would be no negatives to lose or get damaged, and there would be less of a storage problem with boxes of slides [...]

It’s early here. Well, it’s early enough for me. It’s 7.45am. I’ve been up about an hour and a quarter. I’ll confess that it’s earlier than usual. I’m not a morning person. I’m sitting here now, feeling tired but not sleepy.
Coffee doesn’t work. I enjoy my morning coffee, but it doesn’t wake me up in [...]