Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm blessed with a good photo shop just 5 minutes from my house. In 25 years of work for me he's never messed up any of my negatives and does my scans on a big $300,000 processor/printer. Maybe I'm just lucky. Daniel Ridings wrote: >Boy, I wish they did meet mine. On the other hand, commercial scans >can't even touch black and white (unless it's the C41 emulsions, I >guess). > >The cemetery shots I had around a couple of weeks ago were commercial >scans. They sharpen them way past what you would really want. More or >less results in scans that you can't work with. Possibly print out >without any adjustments, but if they don't get it right, there's not >much you can do with the image without it falling apart. > >We hear a lot about films, cameras and film manufacturers going down >the tubes, but there is another aspect that has me frightened. Film >scanners. > >A year ago you could pick up a film scanner and chose between a >professional (expensive) or consumer model. The consumer models were >usually well nigh just a good for all practical purposes (up to 8x10). > >I fielded a scanning question recently and went to B&H to provide some >links. > >The film scanners are definitely a dying breed. They are going faster >than film manufacturers and film cameras. > >This alone will drive me back into the darkroom. If I can't get a good >scan, I can't print digitally. I bought a good scanner a year and a >half ago (top of the line Nikon), but I better baby that one and keep >the el-cheapo Minolta around as a back-up. > >I'm not impressed with the results of converting digital to b/w. I am >also not comfortable with SLR's (probably my main reason for not going >digital. I have an SLR but it just feels too big to work with). I'll >never be able to justify a digital M (assuming there ever is such a >thing). If film scanners disappear, I will be up the proverbial shit >creek without a paddle. > >Daniel >On 1/18/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: >> Daniel - Well sometimes you just have to do things yourself, don't >> you, when you want them right. :-) Commercial scans easily meet my >> needs for the moment. >> >> >> >On 1/18/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: >> > >> >> - Film is easily processed and digitized. >> > >> >I shoot film too ... but I don't think I'd go _that_ far. Easily >> >processed, yes, but digitized, no. At least not easily digitized if >> >you are a little picky (I am pathologically pedantic so I have to do >> >it myself. It isn't easy.) >> > >> >Daniel >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Leica Users Group. >> >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> Boston MA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information