How do I tell wife I need a Nikon Coolscan?

[Ken Shipman]

Buy it and store it in the garage for a week. Then bring it in under your arm casually - unboxed natch - and tell her you finally found a use for this ol' piece of crap you've been holding onto for years.

 

[caffeineshutter]

Tell her it's a newly introduced speed-reading course on tape for just $19.99.

 

[amateriat]

Before we were under one (her) roof, I started handling all of galfriend's film-related needs: finding a good local lab to process her color neg film (which is all she shoots). From there, I've done all the scanning and printing. There was no questioning when I decided to move to the Minolta DS 5400 several years back (which, BTW, has long since paid for itself from scanning other photographers' film).

Does she have any film around that she hasn't looked at in a bit? 😉

Be warned, though: you might become sorely tempted to get yourself a good printer after you've seen what a good, dedicated film scanner can do. Even more dangerous: your wife might get more into this stuff than you might have imagined...you may well find yourself having to hand that G1 over to her to keep the peace.

(Good thing my gal has her OM2S and Stylus) 😀


- Barrett