Thanks Mark. You're right. Previous attempts with film on glass have produced Newton rings. Have to try it again with this scanner. I have some other 4 x 5s I'd like to scan.
On Mar 13, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice shot, Paul, and extra points for doing it the hard way. I'm > surprised you did not get Newton rings with the film on the scanner, but the > results speak for themselves. > > On 3/12/2013 7:51 PM, Paul Stenquist 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. -- 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.
