Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-21 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 19 May 2001 16:16:16 -0400 Johnny Deadman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tone to me is the look of a correctly exposed non t-grain bw 4x5 negative developed using a compensating developer and printed on unglazed glossy FB paper. Quite what that has to do with chroma and hue angle

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-20 Thread Arthur Entlich
Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: Flatbeds can and have been used for macro photography and to great advantage, and to create original works of art as well. Just protect the glass surface. Maris Now, you really are giving the store away. ;-) Much of my original artwork of the last year

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Lynn Allen
Steve wrote: Ok it will be approx US $7000 but hopefully the consumer stuff will eventually follow on. That's a pretty big hit, AFAIC. You can buy several Leicas for that amount. Even a professional will look very closely at that sort of high-ticket item--it has to start paying off very

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 5/19/01 8:30 AM, Steve Greenbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See this : http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-05/2001_05_17_dcs_760.html and in particular this : (be warned it's 1.4M) http://www.robgalbraith.com/public_files/dcs760_bw_portrait.jpg well, it's very very sharp

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Gordon Tassi
Lynn: You make some good points relative to the camera. There are other factors too that an amateur must consider. One biggy is the storage capacity of digital cameras. That is getting better but it still has not reached the point where the chips will hold a lot of tiff images. The image

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
- Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 4:56 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding | | | Alan Tyson wrote: | | Just to add an alternative, broader view to the | discussion | | I

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Tony Sleep
On Fri, 18 May 2001 10:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Lynn Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm starting to think, Hey, this filmscanning stuff might just catch on! Yes. I recently did some shots, informal contre-jour portraits of a guy during an interview. He was indoors, back to the window, sunny day

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Richard N. Moyer
If you (John Brownlow below) could talk in terms of digital imaging terms, maybe I could understand precisely what you are talking about. The word tone means almost anything, depending on the background of the individual. What I would like www.robgalbraith.com to post is the gamut breadth

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 5/19/01 2:46 PM, Richard N. Moyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you (John Brownlow below) could talk in terms of digital imaging terms, maybe I could understand precisely what you are talking about. The word tone means almost anything, depending on the background of the individual.

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Lynn Allen
Tony wrote: This is exactly why I got into scanning, to expand the range of possibilities. Filmscanners and software are now powerful enough tools to easily surpass what conventional darkrooms can achieve in most respects. clip And of course, hardest of the lot, taking a decent photo in the

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-19 Thread Lynn Allen
--Original Message-- From: Johnny Deadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filmscanners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 19, 2001 3:42:17 PM GMT Subject: Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding on 5/19/01 8:30 AM, Steve Greenbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See this : http://www.robgalbraith.com

filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Lynn Allen
For the last several days I've been going back to my roots vis a vis archiving; scanning old prints again, instead of old negs or slides. Although I've read Tony's and others' comments on the differences in dynamic range etc., I'd never really noticed it so much before. Like, with flat scanning,

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread James L. Sims
A friend gave me a set of prints and negatives this week to use in an article for a newsletter publication. The prints were pale, low contrast and very little color saturation. My friend asked me what he had done wrong. Upon examining the negatives (Kodak Gold), they look to be slightly

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Bob Shomler
There is no doubt in my mind that scanning the negative is far better than scanning the print. My list of some reasons to scan from negative rather than print, accumulated over three years of neg scan experience (and with a lot of jump-start knowledge from others on the filmscanners list): You

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
And, of course, the color gamut of film is greater than that of print. Maris - Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:42 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding | There is no doubt in my mind

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Arthur Entlich
Lynn Allen wrote: For the last several days I've been going back to my roots vis a vis archiving; scanning old prints again, instead of old negs or slides. Although I've read Tony's and others' comments on the differences in dynamic range etc., I'd never really noticed it so much before.

Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding

2001-05-18 Thread Karl Schulmeisters
Vai jus esat latvietis? Karlis Schulmeisters - Original Message - From: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Filmscanning vs. Flatbedding And, of course, the color gamut of film is greater than