Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, You can tell it is the holiday season and someone (me) got their shopping done early and has waaaay too much time on their hands. So: Yes, developing your own B&W is cheaper and faster, although if you find it acceptable, you can have the 1hr place do your C41 B&W rolls and do not have prints made too. That limits you to Ilford XP2 and Kodak's 400 speed films though. Then there is the contact sheet problem: a. hardliners will say, "just look at the negs with a loupe. That's how REAL men do it." b. you can make a contact sheet with "printing out paper". Requires no chemicals or darkroom c. you can buy a flat bed scanner that will scan negs. Seems to me that Godfrey DiGiorgi had a mini review of one that was pretty nifty. He was going to use it for MF neg scanning as I recall. Choice c. may not qualify as "frugal", but it is a relative term. RP Johnson *********************************************** John Straus wrote: It's almost Ho, ho, ho time and PAW 2002 is right around the corner. I hope to embark on this mission and have as much success through the year as others have, if nothing else learn from the experience. The question I have is what are some good ways of shooting a roll a week but not spending a lot of $$ doing so? My normal methods are shoot slides or print film and go to a ProLab for Dip&Dunk. That is just not going to be economical for me to do that @ $9 or $17 per roll. Sooo I was thinking of going back to some B&W neg film and do the processing myself. It would save some $$ (I think) and I could look at the film a lot faster (same eve) instead of taking it to a lab and wait 3 days. I can set something up to at least process the negs but I still need a proof sheet. I have a slide scanner but the thought of proofing a few frames at a time feeding in and out doesn't seem like the best way, or is it? I was thinking of getting a cheap $100 flatbed to do the proofing on and I could use it anytime I didn't want prints made for the color neg film I shoot. How do you guys do it? Any thoughts or ideas appreciated! - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html