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Comment by Juha Veikko Mentu on May 26, 2009 at 1:00am

I am interested about the safe storage of B&W negatives.

The oldest ones are over 40 years old, and I keep them in dark, in room temperature. And there are a lot of them.

Some of them are most important for me, especially the one which describes a small island in a morning fog (it was est. 4 o'clock am, like the title of Simon & Garfunkel's old record from 60's).

I wonder if I should transfer them in a digitalized form? Maybe someone would be interested in them in the future? The real value of them may be zero or high, depending the observer of the photos?

Comment by Juha Veikko Mentu on May 26, 2009 at 12:44am

Helge and me have discussed about everyday photography.

Why do we not document our homes with our cameras when we still live in them? Modern people tend to move several times during their lifetime (I have moved 17 times, as far as I can remember). Last homes in Sweden and Jyväskylä are better documented than the previous ones. It was a luck, however, that my father was an eager photographer in his early years, until 60's, but after that here is a huge gap in my memories of my homes. I focused to take photos (since 60's, B&W and dias) out in the nature, in forests and by the lakes. After that, I was keen to document plants and thereafter microbes - but not my homes.

What kind of furniture did I have in my homes? What were the colours of the textiles? What were the forms of windows, doors...?

Maybe we still have an idea about the high costs of photography somewhere in the back of our heads? Somebody asked me on 70's: "Why do you take photos without any persons?". It was obviously "allowed" to take expensive photos of one's relatives, but plants and landscapes...nonsense...

Let's document our homes as long as we still live in them! It is even cheaper today with our digitals!

Comment by Helge V. Keitel on January 10, 2009 at 3:42pm

Nina, about the video-film, I didn't have it with me to Sotkamo but should be able to make the transfer in the coming days. We've been busy with customer visits after we returned. But soon, it will happen. Have a great new year 2009.

Comment by nina sederholm on January 9, 2009 at 4:33pm

Hello Juha, sorry that I have commented about micro/macrophotography before. I don´t have so much experience in this field, that I can give you any good advice.

Last winter I spend few weeks in Kenya where I did som art work from close-ups...

Comment by nina sederholm on January 9, 2009 at 4:18pm

Hej Helge, vad tror du om energy change filmen, kan ni publicera den här? enjoy!

Comment by Juha Veikko Mentu on December 10, 2008 at 11:28am

Thank you for your comments, Helge!

I have written absolutely nothing into my industrymicrobiology blog since November. The need for primary guidebook / Internet site about mb/microscopy/photography would be interesting to evaluate? Maybe some chances to publish this kind of primary textbook - with photos - can be found?

Nina, be free to visit my blogs www.industrymicrobiologist.blogspot.com and travellingwitheyes.blogspot.com. Both of them contain also photos - previous of them professional, later free-time ones.

regards,
Juha

Comment by Helge V. Keitel on December 10, 2008 at 10:35am

Juha and Nina,

Thanks for an excellent idea and posting. Your thoughtful idea should give Nina and her students a lot to think about. A book project could lead to a long term collaborative effort involving microbiologisists and photographers.

My next thought is, could such a project get financing? I know that Nina has been doing "Waters" which is close to hearth to micro- and biotechnologists, limnologists and environmentalists.

Maybe Nina has ideas? How about Kulturfonden? This would be a deep thing. Finnish Academy might be a source of money too. Kulttuurirahasto is one in addition to Tekes, maybe Sitra.

You're an excellent writer Juha and you have a lot of talented people around you. It could be a book in English language. Or should this book be created on Internet?

These are my humble ideas about a very fine idea.

Br
Helge

Comment by Juha Veikko Mentu on December 10, 2008 at 12:02am

Hello Nina!

I have discussed several times with my fellow microbiologist about our idea to produce a very basic book(let) of paper industry microbiology, containing also microphotographs.

This friend of mine has been a very experienced photographer for years and understand very well the various problems which a starting microphotographer may have to solve. We both also share the same opinion: the final picture shall be as informative as possible and this fact includes the similarity of visual (by the observer's eye, through the oculare) and digitalized view. There are some very interesting issues concerning the way our eyes and mind work (by ignoring some details etc.). Optical results may also differ between "oculöar" and "camera" because factors like depth of field, exact sharpness etc.

The most difficult thing, however, are usually the colours: how many adjustments are needed to have a microphotograph where all shades of staining (Gram, fluorescence etc.) are correct and tell to any observer of the photos, what we have detected?

New digi cameras are very effective tools, compared with older ones. Brightness is no more a problem, however we sometimes have to work with very low light intensities - especially when fluorescence of stained microbes on solid, non-fluorescent surfaces will be observed in biofilm research. In opposite, the manifold of programs, delivered with different cameras, is a confusing and irritating fact and it takes time to optimize all installations of a new program.

- These were just some (professional) ideas about digi photography which I just now have in my head. Please comment them! It would also be nice to hear if you have got any experiences on the area of micro/macrophotography!

Regards,
Juha

Comment by nina sederholm on December 4, 2008 at 9:38pm

Hello och hej på er!
tack för inbjudan :)
enjoy!
/nina

Comment by Juha Veikko Mentu on December 4, 2008 at 8:26pm

Hej!

Det vore trevligt om jag får lov att använda mitt svenska Det är ganska enkelt, tyväär, men om man kan inte öva språket, man kan glömma allt det som man har lärt! Så ber jag tålamod, om jag kanske skriver också på svenska...

Hälsningar,
Juha

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