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cheap and good B&W processing?
Note that I chose only two of "cheap/fast/good."
I have some B&W film here I'd like to use, perhaps even with a pinhole camera (check out www.pinhole.cz if you've not been curious about this before). But I'm currently unemployed and have neither access to a tray line or a lot of budget slush to expend on this. Can anyone recommend a good mail-order house that does a nice job with B&W film? Thanks and sorry if this is a published FAQ: if there is a FAQ or charter for this group, please direct me there. |
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cheap and good B&W processing?
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:34:02 -0600, brougham wrote:
(paul beard) wrote: But I'm currently unemployed and have neither access to a tray line or a lot of budget slush to expend on this. You don't mention what film size you're wanting to develop, but if you're talking about roll film, I'd suggesting buying a developing tank and some reels on ebay and doing it yourself. I don't have a dedicated darkroom at home, either. I only need complete darkness for when I'm loading the film. After that, I can process in the light. You can get away with a good old fashioned changing bag, put the tank and film inside with your tools, zip it up, stick in your arms and do it all with the lights on...... I calculated at one time that it costs me 20 cents a roll. I develop my own not for economic reasons, but for quality. If somebody is giong to ruin my film, I'd rather it be me. I've only had a lab destroy negatives on one occasion. But as Murphy would have it, that happened to have the most meaning to me of any film I had ever exposed. That's what pushed me back into developing my own again after many years' lapse. I expect within 20 years everyone will be doing their own, even colour, except that when the roll is nice and dry you will feed it into a 12000dpi scanner with a 5TB memory cube and 20 minutes later drop that into your computer and start processing them with Photoshop V22 W |
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film/slide scanner recommendations (was cheap and good B&W processing?)
"The Wogster" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:34:02 -0600, brougham wrote: (paul beard) wrote: But I'm currently unemployed and have neither access to a tray line or a lot of budget slush to expend on this. You don't mention what film size you're wanting to develop, but if you're talking about roll film, I'd suggesting buying a developing tank and some reels on ebay and doing it yourself. I don't have a dedicated darkroom at home, either. I only need complete darkness for when I'm loading the film. After that, I can process in the light. You can get away with a good old fashioned changing bag, put the tank and film inside with your tools, zip it up, stick in your arms and do it all with the lights on...... [ . . . ] I expect within 20 years everyone will be doing their own, even colour, except that when the roll is nice and dry you will feed it into a 12000dpi scanner with a 5TB memory cube and 20 minutes later drop that into your computer and start processing them with Photoshop V22 Hmm, I have the tanks and all that stuff, and I remember how to do all that stuff. What I lack is a way to get the negs into something other than, well, negatives. I guess my *real* question is, does anyone have a recommendation on a good slide/negative scanner? I have a bunch of chromes I'd love to burn to CD or at least view some other way than through a loupe . . . .. |
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film/slide scanner recommendations (was cheap and good B&W processing?)
paul beard wrote:
I guess my *real* question is, does anyone have a recommendation on a good slide/negative scanner? I have a bunch of chromes I'd love to burn to CD or at least view some other way than through a loupe . . . I'm using an Epson 2450 I bought 14 months ago; there are better and cheaper options now, I think. I've scanned several hundred old slides from my wife's family; they get saved as 300K JPGs, and I put them, about a hundred at a time, on a CD where the family members can view them as a slideshow or access the JPGs for their own use. Family members love getting them--nobody has a slide projector these days but us camera nuts! :-) _______________________________________________ Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu _______________________________________________ All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001 |
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film/slide scanner recommendations (was cheap and good B&W processing?)
The Nikon CoolScan line of scanners. The LS40 will run in the
neighborhood of about $500 maybe even less? I bought my LS4000 (the next model up from the LS40) about a year ago for around $1,100. It's served me well, I love it! The LS4000 is selling now for under $800. The newer models LS50 and LS5000 debuted about a month ago. Nikon's web site is chock full of info. on those mentioned models above. PGW In article , wrote: paul beard wrote: I guess my *real* question is, does anyone have a recommendation on a good slide/negative scanner? I have a bunch of chromes I'd love to burn to CD or at least view some other way than through a loupe . . . I'm using an Epson 2450 I bought 14 months ago; there are better and cheaper options now, I think. I've scanned several hundred old slides from my wife's family; they get saved as 300K JPGs, and I put them, about a hundred at a time, on a CD where the family members can view them as a slideshow or access the JPGs for their own use. Family members love getting them--nobody has a slide projector these days but us camera nuts! :-) _______________________________________________ Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu _______________________________________________ All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001 |
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