In this article I am going to talk about the journey that led me to build the Mongoose automated negative carrier, and my newest device, the BoopBoop Trigger for digitizing mounted slides. This won’t be so much a technical review or description as much as a meandering memoir for posterity about what I did with my last year.
There are plenty of excellent technical articles and reviews on EMULSIVE, this one will be more of a ‘year in the life of a camera maker during a pandemic’ type of article. At the end, there will be some links and videos that get directly into the BoopBoop, how it works, how to set it up, and how to use it.
Before that, look at something of what I did with 2020:
Today marks the one year anniversary of my being quarantined in my home in New Mexico. Truth be told, I led a quarantined lifestyle to begin with: I live 2,500 miles from the city…