On 3/12/2013 20:11, Bruce Walker 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.

the V500 is great for slides, I think - and Paul, I like your method... I have a couple of negs from the 50's and one 3 x 3 positive I'd
like to try using that method.

Don't plan to make QUITE such a big file tho!

ann


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
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