My boss is a devoted sports photographer who was spending a huge amount of money on Ilfochrome prints at a very good custom lab. I asked him to let me see a sheet of his transparencies. I scanned them on our Agfa Duoscan T2500 at 4000 dpi, then printed the 50 meg images on Ilford Fine Art paper in my Epson 1200. When I handed hime the 10 x 7 prints, he was absolutely blown away. The images were crisper and more vibrant than his Ilfochromes. The very next day he bought an Epson 1280, a new G4 880 Mac, and a Nikon film scanner. (He makes an obscene amount of money, the bastard. I billed him for the half dozen sheets of that expensive paper :-) Paul
Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Mike ... > > If you mean using digital cameras, well, I'm not particularly interested > at this point. Digital cameras don't work properly for much of my > photography. However, I do scan some of my work and put it up for all > to see, and it's quite possible that, given a good photograph and a good > negative and a good scan, I may have a digital print made. Actually, I > intend to do just that, and have already contacted a couple of places to > get an idea of what's required for a high end print. > > Also, although it's a cheap one, I've been using a digital camera longer > than it seems you have, albeit for entirely different purposes. > > Mike Johnston wrote: > > > But while we're on the subject of changing viewpoints, I think what you (and > > Shel and Mafud and Christian etc.) are forgetting is that I was just like > > you a year ago. I was saying all the same things, making all the same > > arguments. > > > > Digital is coming to your lives as photographers, just as it came to mine > > (whether we also stick with film or not). The only difference between any of > > us is WHEN we jump in. > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/pow/enter.html > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/cameras/pentax_repair_shops.html > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
