Thanks Bruce.The 4x5 BW negs are a very thick base, so they lay pretty flat. I'll have to check the edge code and see what kind of film it was. I would guess it was Plus X.
On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > That's pretty darned good, Paul. I like the look. > > The V500 must take pains to minimize vibrations. I would have expected > a loose neg to shift about during the scan. When I attempt to scan > Kodachrome slides on my V100, they end up kinda fuzzy. > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Way back in 1975 a teacher at the Chicago high school where I taught English >> asked if I would take a BW pic of her and her kids. Like many young >> photographers, I had a penchant for doing things the hard way, so I decided >> to shoot them with my Speed Graphic and 127 mm Raptor 4.5. I had jerry >> rigged a cord so I could attach a Honeywell potato masher strobe. So I did >> that and mounted the strobe on an umbrella that I had painted white. I had >> to tray process the film. (Couldn't take it to a lab. That would be too >> easy.) >> >> I'm not sure if the lady specified that she didn't want to look at the >> camera, but neither she nor her children are looking at the camera. The pic >> was for a newspaper column she wrote. Maybe they just thought they should >> look at the flash. >> >> I scanned it today on the V500. Just for grins. There's no 4 x 5 film holder >> for that scanner, so I just placed the neg on the scanner in the approximate >> position of the overhead light. The scanning area is less than 4 inches >> wide, but I needed to crop it a bit anyway. At 3200 dpi, the scan is 1.2 >> gigs. I may print it. Just for grins. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17035692 >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
