Re: [pinhole-discussion] Dense Negative

2001-08-22 Thread John Putnam
Hey, I was wondering what kind of camera you are shooting with and what size the film is John William Erickson wrote: You're not going to have any luck scanning them. You will need to print them in the darkroom, then scan the print if you want digital.Incredibly dense negs will rpint

[pinhole-discussion] Re: [pinhole-discussion] Dense Negative

2001-08-22 Thread Mark Interrante
Hi, I agree that normal scanning will not help but if you use a professional scanner they will find detail that VERY dark. I would reccomend http://www.westcoastimaging.com/ they are excellent scanners and have a 80k drum scanners and are experts. They have regularly pulled out detail at

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Dense Negative

2001-08-22 Thread William Erickson
You're not going to have any luck scanning them. You will need to print them in the darkroom, then scan the print if you want digital.Incredibly dense negs will rpint usually if you give mega-exposure. - Original Message - From: Benjamin Privitt five...@hotmail.com To: pinhole-discussion@p

[pinhole-discussion] Dense Negative

2001-08-22 Thread Benjamin Privitt
Hi folks, This question may have more to do with general darkroom procedure rather than being specifically pinhole-oriented, but here goes. I have very dense negatives from a Zero 2000. These are outdoor, full sunlight images on a variety of films that have lots of detail, and lots of

Re: [pinhole-discussion] zone plate

2001-08-22 Thread Ana Maria Schultze
Hi, Tati. Do you know João Ribeiro, here from the group? He is also brazilian (as I am), and do beautifull zone plates. Perhaps you can write him directly in portughese, for better understanding. Hello all! I'm brazilian and I have just started to try pinhole and I can't understand what is

Re: [pinhole-discussion] compensating zone plate

2001-08-22 Thread Colin Talcroft
In answer to your concave/convex question, Guillermo, I was thinking of a half sphere sticking out away from the film plane so that the zones at the edges were closer to the film than the central clear area. Colin __ Do You Yahoo!? Make

Re: [pinhole-discussion] compensating zone plate

2001-08-22 Thread John Yeo
Also, I've long wondered why no one makes zone plates by etching and staining glass. Every zone plate I've seen has dirty, scratched, cloudy clear zones because it's been made on film base. Wouldn't glass be better? Could probably be done using photoetching. Maybe too complicated, probably

Re: [pinhole-discussion] compensating zone plate

2001-08-22 Thread Gordon J. Holtslander
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Guillermo wrote: If you were in Quebec I'd probably ask you: what were you guys smoking, but probably in Saskatoon as well as in Toronto, eateries are smoke free places by law. :-) Guillermo We were eating outside in the sun at 30C - thats probably what did it - I'll