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Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:57:15 -0600
References: <CB6203BB.1A5CF%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Thanks, Mark.  I found it.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?


> Command i?
>
> -- 
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
>
>
>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:59:00 -0600
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>
>> Sonny,
>>
>> VueScan produced a scan in negative format, which I moved into PS 
>> Elements
>> 6.0, but I can't find a tool to convert the negative to positive.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>
>>
>>> BTW, most flatbed scanners are very much faster if you scan a negative 
>>> as
>>> a
>>> positive, and invert in Photoshop.  The software is native positive, and
>>> it
>>> makes the conversion as you go; Photoshop is far faster than most 
>>> scanning
>>> software at converting.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim, do you have a transparency adapter on the Epson?  If you do, and 
>>>> it
>>>> is plugged in, Vuescan will see the transparency adapter and you can
>>>> choose
>>>> it.  I don't have Vuescan at home so I can't talk you through it, but 
>>>> if
>>>> you still have the issue remind me tomorrow, and I'll talk you through
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jim Nichols
>>>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark, help me out here.  I scanned some 35mm negs on my old Epson
>>>>> flatbed
>>>>> several years ago, but have forgotten what software I used.  The last
>>>>> time
>>>>> I tried to scan a strip of 35 negs, I tried VueScan, and it activated
>>>>> the
>>>>> scanner, but I could never make it give me the option to select a
>>>>> negative,
>>>>> or convert from a negative to positive image.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the best way to get there?  I don't think the Epson software
>>>>> offers me the negative option, either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner"
>>>>> <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  I think an Epson flat bed is most what we need to connect our 
>>>>> previous
>>>>>> sheet
>>>>>> film and even medium format existence to our here and now digital
>>>>>> internet
>>>>>> world.
>>>>>> I think scan a "large" neg on even a less pricey flat bed and run it 
>>>>>> up
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> flagpole on a gallery or website and its going to blow the 35mm stuff
>>>>>> right
>>>>>> out of the water.
>>>>>> Even if it was full frame and shot with Aspherical Apochromatic glass
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> had
>>>>>> jacked up megapixels. The richness still comes though and the fact 
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> comes from much more real estate.
>>>>>> Acreage Acreage Acreage.
>>>>>> The stuff just has more weight.
>>>>>> The ponderousness of setting up a sheet film shot comes through.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mark R.
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/<http://gallery.le
>>>>>> ica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
>>>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:45 -0600
>>>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an
>>>>>>>> email to a
>>>>>>>> friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not 
>>>>>>>> going
>>>>>>>> to be
>>>>>>>> about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For those rare purposes (of needing a decent digital copy of a film
>>>>>>> negative)
>>>>>>> I simply copy it with the 100 mm apo-macro-elmarit on the DMR
>>>>>>> (or in the case of sheet film - scan it on my epson flat bed
>>>>>>> though the 11x14 and 12x20 sheet film doesn't fit there either).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> George Lottermoser
>>>>>>> george at imagist.com
>>>>>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>>>>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**imagist<http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Sonny
>>>> http://sonc.com/look/
>>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>>>
>>>> USA
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>> http://sonc.com/look/
>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>>
>>> USA
>>>
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