On Christmas Day I decided to make a few photos of Seamus-the-dog with my old Canon EOS-7D. I’d bought this digital camera back in June 2010, and for nearly five years it was my primary digital image making tool.

When, I went to download the camera, I found a variety of older files that I’d ‘locked’ onto the camera’s CF card.

Although these images have been preserved elsewhere on hard drives, I thought it was fascinating that after more than 10 years, these old digital files had survived on the original card. So, I downloaded a few of them for advanced digital processing.

I’d always prized my Canon for its exceptional ability to reproduce color.

I imported a select few of the Canon RAW IMG files, and then converted these to DNG format using DxO PureRaw, which corrected lens defects, minimized noise, and improved overall appearance.

These photos were among a selection that I’d exposed at North Carolina’s Spencer Shops ‘Streamliners at Spencer’ event in May/June 2014, and feature Soo Line FP7 2500, a General Motors classic preserved by the Lake Superior Transportation Museum.

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