How the Pictures Get Here
The current cameras include a Canon EOS Digital Rebel and a Canon A710 IS point 'n' shoot with optical image stabilization. Film pictures were taken using a Canon EOS Elan or a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II camera using Agfa Portrait XPS 160, Optima 100 and Ultra 50 film. Some of the older pictures are taken on various Kodak film stocks and the pictures from the 1986 Hawaii trip are mostly Kodachrome. The older digital photos are taken with a Kodak DC265 camera, then a bunch were taken with an Olympus E-10 camera.

Many of the recent photos from the Canon A710 IS camera were taken in raw mode. How's that done? By using hacked firmware, of course! Here's a link: Camera Hacks at Lifehacker

Early 35mm scanning was done with a Nikon LS-1000 CoolScan. This unit has LED illumination and 12-bit A/D converters. There's no backing scratch it couldn't resolve! Medium format images were scanned on a Howtek Scanmaster 4500 drum scanner at from 500 to 1000 dpi. The drum scanner uses incandescent illumination and photomultiplier image pickup tubes. 12 bit-A/D conversion is done following an analog log conversion stage. More recent scanning is done with an Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanner.

Adaptive unsharp masking image enhancement is applied using the Gimp (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) under Linux and the image is saved as a JPEG. A thumbnail version is also saved for the clickable images on the gallery pages. The newest photos are processed with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom under Mac OS X (ain't it amazing!), followed by final touches in Adobe Photoshop CS3. ImageMagick is used for automated image resampling on the newer photo galleries.