Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice but the doggie at the end wins! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Apr 7, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Howard Ritter wrote: > I decided to take a film camera (M3, 50 ?lux, Tri-X) along on our trip to > London on the Queen Mary 2. Here are some of the results. And I finished > one of the rolls at home with an M5 that I wanted to check for > light-tightness and approximate shutter accuracy. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Tri-X_001/ > > > The film was developed by a custom lab (Digi-Graphics) and I intended to > scan it myself but found that the film adapter for my earlier Nikon > Coolscan doesn?t work with the 5000, and the older scanner uses the > obsolete SCSI connector, so is incompatible with my current computers. I > took the developed film to a local photo store (they don?t develop B&W any > longer) for scanning and had them done at an advertised 2000 dpi, which > seems to be correct, as the files are ~6 MB. So the files look pretty > granular. Somehow it managed to scan a 36-exp roll in what seemed like one > minute; I have no idea how it does it so fast. I have just bought the > correct film adapter on eBay and I hope to make the files look better by > scanning the negs at 4500 dpi, equivalent to a 30-MB sensor. > > Parenthetically, it?ll be interesting to see how the detail and resolution > in a good scan of a Tri-X frame compare to FF digital files of various > sizes. With this in mind, I took a picture of my standard target for such > tests, a house across the quarry, with the M5. I?ll post it when I get a > decent scan. > > BTW, the kid (about 30 years old) managing the photo shop insisted that > Kodak had stopped producing Tri-X. And it took me several minutes of > careful explanation to convince him that he was incorrect in thinking that > larger pixels on a sensor make for more detailed photos. This is the last > surviving photographic store in Toledo. All they sell is accessories, > Lomography gear, C41 processing, custom prints, and studio time. > > ?howard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >