Wildflowers With Film

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San Diego Wildflowers: Photographed With Film Cameras
Scanned Kodachrome Transparencies (some over 40 years old) by W.P. Armstrong

Film Cameras Used For These Color Transparencies: Nikon FM-2 Nikkormat EL Tower 32A

The primary purpose of this page is to show the quality of scanned 35 mm Kodachrome color transparencies compared with modern digital cameras. Even more remarkable, I took some of these pictures over 40 years ago when I first moved to San Diego County to start my career at Palomar College. Some of these coastal wildflower populations have been destroyed by urban sprawl, particularly the species near Palomar College in San Marcos. I scanned them with an old Epson 4870 Scanner at 300 dpi and more than 11 million pixels. These 33 megabyte images compare with high end digital cameras. But remember, a professional drum scanner could produce images with much higher resolutions and twice the number of megabytes.

Landscape Images Taken With Film:

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Galapagos Is.

Scarlet Locoweed (Astragalus coccineus)
Near Mountain Springs, San Diego County, CA
Image taken with Nikon FM-2 camera with 55mm Micro-Nikkor macro lens.

Jimsonweed (Datura wrightii) In San Pasqual Valley, San Diego County
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1980

Southern Lewisia (Lewisia brachycalyx) Near Cuyamaca Lake
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1980

Desert Beauty (Linanthus bellus) Near Boulevard, S.E. San Diego County
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1980

Ground Pink (Linanthus dianthiflorus) Burned Slope N. Of Palomar College
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1970

Weed's Mariposa Lily (Calochortus weedii var. weedii) Owens Peak
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1970

Coast Paintbrush (Castilleja affinis ssp. affinis) Owens Peak
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1970

Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria biflora var. biflora) San Marcos, CA
Hillside West of Palomar College: Area Now A Housing Tract
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1970

Toothed Downingia (Downingia cuspidata) San Marcos, CA
Endandered Vernal Pool Habitat In San Marcos
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa 1970

Tidy Tips (Layia platyglossa) & Goldfields (Lasthenia gracilis)
Cuyamaca Lake In Spring: I Haven't Seen It Like This Since 1973
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, May 1973

Sierra Nevada & Hawaiian Island Of Maui

Alpine Lily (Lilium parvum) Sierra Nevada
Lush Wet Meadow Near Fern Lake, Mono County, CA
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, August 1975

Silver Sword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum) Maui
A Silver Sword In Full Bloom Near The Rim Of Haleakala Crater
Kodachrome Transparency by W.P. Armstrong, Circa Summer 1999

3 Related Species In The Silver Sword Alliance
Kodachrome Transparencies by W.P. Armstrong, Circa Summer 1999