Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just posted some b/w images I shot last weekend. Group of kids meeting before HS prom. Shot 3 rolls in about 35 minutes. Of 105 frames 95 turned out, and 10 didn't. Everything was shot with a 90/2 or 35/2 Summicron. One roll each of Acros, D400 and HP5+. All developed in Xtol 1:2. Negs scanned at fairly low res on an Epson flatbed. . Links are... http://www.lightcurves.com/prom2002/bw/prom2002bw1.htm (click right arrow for page 2) http://www.lightcurves.com/prom2002/bw/panoramics.htm (cropped obviously) This little exercise convinced me that for b/w film is still way ahead of digital for capture. No way could I have equaled this with my digital cameras. Sure digital's less expensive, but not THAT much less. $15 for film. $1.80 to develop. Batch scanning took a couple of hours, but only 15 minutes actual hands on. And I have NEGS! I printed one image 24X16 on my Epson 3000 with Piezo inks; rescanned on a Leafscan. Happened to be an HP5+ neg. Results amazed me! Dave BTW, the panoramic format was a crop I did for some video clips. I motion panned the images using Adobe AfterFX. Made several 15 sec long avi files that went into a video yearbook. Better than video tape clips, IMHO. But I've always favored still images over video. Further, the on-line images lack technical quality on purpose. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html