Re: [Leica] Outputting to slides

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>]

Mark:

If you do go to get these files put back on slides, be prepared to be
disappointed.  I have seen some of the best that these machines can do, and
the images still look soft compared to the original.  You Leica images will
end up looking like holga images ;-)  This is just comapring what you can
get on 100asa slide film to what these machines can output. 

Eric's praise may come from having scans from 800asa print film recorded to
slides, rather than slower slide film being scanned, edited and output back
to slides.

I have seen a person edit a file in Photoshop, print it out on an EPson and
then photograph the print to get his slide.  It was most impressive.


Regards,

Robert

At 12:46 PM 9/11/99 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>"Robert G. Stevens" wrote:
>> 
>> Mark:
>> 
>> I have had good success using Kodak 5071 slide duplicating film to copy
>> prints.   It is tungsten balanced and I just used the modeling lights of my
>> studio flashes for lighting.  Being a slide copy film, it is very fine
>> grain and low contrast which makes for decent slides.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>This is excellent advice that I thank you for Robert but here is where I am
>coming from on this.
>First I have to mat prints that I wasn't planning an matting as they are
fiber
>and won't stay flat enough. Setting up a couple of strobes is easier for
me as
>I have a little shooting studio here with studio stobes; Balcars and I
would set
>up the lights in their little reflectors at 45 degrees each and try not to
get
>reflections. My prints are usually full frame black border so I would have to
>rig up a black velvet L shaped set to mask them off perfectly. And I would
>shoot Kodachrome 25 for it's low enough contrast and top resolution. And I
>really don't like the idea of copying this thing with the Nikon 105 macro.
I'd
>rather sell the darn thing then start thinking it was indispensable. Maybe it
>is. It's acturally all I need in SLR maybe a 200.
>After having great fun with Photoshop for a dozen years since version one I
>find that I have talents which are not in practical use and want to put
them to
>work. So in the midst of a Darkroom 40 day Blitz I am going sit up here at
my 
>computer to Photoshop 4 or 5 images for slide output at someplace here in
town.
>A great new experiment!
>I think Eric told me 18 megs per slide I should have no problem with that. 
>Hate to be staring at pixels when they project those slides in Chicago in
front 
>of all those Leica people!
>Mark Rabiner
>
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