Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/9/07 6:22 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> typed: > Theyzuns were themuns....thosuns who wanted me nailed to a cross for > suggesting filters on Leica glass. Probably the same ones who sell > equipment listing "slight cleaning marks". ;-) Actually, I've gotten > to the point I'd like to have a Mamiya 7. One camera, one lens and the > heck with all the rest. Problem with that is my scanner only does 35mm. > I'm not about to buy one capable of 6x6 or 6x7. I am really cheap. > Genearlly buy all my equipment used but the lenses new. > > Walt (who loves ya too) > Medium format film can be done quite well with flatbeds which are not all that much money. 5 6 hundred bucks maybe. Epson. 4000 dpi. And can be used to scan all kinds of things. Like paper and a whole roll of film like for a contact sheet kind of thing. And those scans doing a whole roll at at time can be used for web work or emails. I get a big kick out of scanning old black and white snapshots you feel like your working from an original negative and they hadn't thrown the neg away and when you blow them up letter size its like seeing them for the first time. Its like you never saw them. And they're no longer faded and what not. The snapshots from the early 50s and before are often contact prints so the detail hidden in there is really impressive. You get to see those little things you had next to you on your dresser as a kid. Its like you've been sent back in time. And when you run out of black and whites you can do the colors and often the best approach is to pretend they were never shot in color. That awful stuff from the 70s. You can fix the color that's nice. But not the haircuts. No. But often nicer to just get rid of the color. So they blend in with all your nice black and whites. You've printed on above average paper. Its important your paper is above average. And I'd say matt. From these companies who've been making paper for 400 years. 100 % rag. They told you in school paper comes from trees they lied. The best paper comes from rags. Stolen no doubt out of garbage cans. But the polyester blends don't count. They want a high cotton count. Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com