The picture below   is an  archival image from the time when I'd just  picked up  film photography again after a 20 year break.  The image was made whilst Suzanne and I were travelling in Tasmania on a holiday  with our standards poodles (Agtet and Ari) in the 1st decade of the 21st century---it was  in late 2006 judging from these  posts on my old Junk for Code blog. 

This was our first trip to Tasmania,  and we were travelling down on the west coast of Tasmania at the time.  There'd been a fire in the hills in the hills around  Tullah,  Lake Rosebery and the MacIntosh Dam.  So I took some photos.  I was rusty judging from the fact that most of the  black and white negatives  from this trip were badly underexposed. 

The camera I was using then was  my old  Leica M4 with an old  Summicron 50mm lens and Tri-X film. The picture  was made  before I'd shifted to using colour film and  Mac computers.  The film was developed  and scanned by a pro lab and it was scanned as a jpeg--a low res scan.   

I didn't know what a  low res scan meant then. I knew nothing about the shift to digital that had been taking place in photography since the 1990s.  I 'd just picked up from where I'd left  photography  20 years earlier- I  was more or less naively starting over again  but without a wet darkroom.  

My other camera on the trip was an antique,   medium format Linhof Technika  70 with an old  6x9 film back that had developed light leaks since it had last been used.  Unfortunately, apart from the odd one ,   most of the negatives from this film back on this trip were useless. 

Today I  find  the compressed 35mm jpeg file hard to work with in Lightroom.  Why  would  a pro-lab give you scanned jpegs?  Thankfully, I  still have the option of rescanning  the 35mm negative.  The Leica M4 was misplaced in camera report workshop and I was left with my Leica M4-P which is used  with colour film.