Flying, slide shows and restoration

It has been a while since I posted here. Summer has been busy with travel and family.

I had a very painful trip to the Midwest on United Airlines. I wish that it was possible for the airlines to simply go out of business and start again. I realize that this won't happen, but it is really what is needed to fix things so that travel is sane again.

On the Pixmonix front, we added a couple of new services during the last month. Like photo scanning, we have been offering these services "informally" for years. We now offer DVD slide show creation services and photo restoration services.

On the page about our photo restoration service, you can see some wonderful images that we restored for a book project. It was a real privilege to be involved in this work. The gentleman involved had some wonderful stories to tell and some great photos to show us of Afghanistan in the late 40's. Our customer provided text for the book. We helped on the project with scanning and photo restoration (some of it rather extensive), as well as book layout, proofing, and procurement. The final result is really wonderful. Thanks Charles!

Cheap scanner review

We have been seeing a lot of advertising for an inexpensive film scanner from Hammacher. It cost about $100. We were curious about how it worked, so we bought one and tested it out. You can see the results of our review of the VuPoint FS-C1-VP slide and negative scanner/converter here.

Short summary: this thing is not worth the packaging it ships in.