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Happiness in LF
Maybe to change the tone a bit, here's the story of my first foray into LF over the last few days and weeks. I've been shooting 35 mm and MF since I was a brat, and working mostly in the "digital darkroom" since 1998 or so. One can never have enough pixels, you know... The gear includes a new Shen-Hao 4x5 and Nikon SW-90 f/8 from Badger. The rest of it -- film holders, spot meter, tripod, etc -- were either from my existing kit or borrowed. For my first outing I shot Portra 160 VC. For scanning, I found super hot deal on a Microtek/Artixscan 2500. It's a *huge* mother of a scanner but does a beautiful job and delivers an honest 2500 dpi from sheet film, in a single pass, in about three minutes. Results are awesome, if I do say so myself. I mean, nothing so far that's going to win any contests or sell for big bucks, but the tonality and detail blew me away and even impressed my wife, which is saying a lot. The image below is the first photo out of this camera: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Here's a small detail from at full scan resolution: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchendetail.jpg One hundred million pixels all told. Life is good. So there it is. Start of a new adventure. It's been cold & windy in Boston of late, and not all that pretty, but I'm already thinking of the photo ops that await... either with spring or (more likely) a good dose of fresh snow. Rather a different trip from shooting with the 10D, I'll say that much G. Regrets? Well, hell, it's a lot of work and WAY slow and I really miss having ICE to clean up my scans. For now, I'm stuck with sending my film off for processing, which kinda sucks. A tip of the hat to Steve's great book and to Jack Dykinga's book and my good friend Carl for getting me this far. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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"Raphael Bustin" wrote in message
... below is the first photo out of this camera: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Here's a small detail from at full scan resolution: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchendetail.jpg One hundred million pixels all told. Life is good. That does take one's breath away. Window screening from across the room, too. Have you done the math on that? |
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Exciting, and nice work too. I like your Hawaii photos. I consider
Hawaii to be a lot more challenging to photograph than places like the desert southwest., You obviously have a good grounding, and are going to fall deeply in love with LF. Maybe to change the tone a bit, here's the story of my first foray into LF over the last few days and weeks. I've been shooting 35 mm and MF since I was a brat, and working mostly in the "digital darkroom" since 1998 or so. One can never have enough pixels, you know... The gear includes a new Shen-Hao 4x5 and Nikon SW-90 f/8 from Badger. The rest of it -- film holders, spot meter, tripod, etc -- were either from my existing kit or borrowed. For my first outing I shot Portra 160 VC. For scanning, I found super hot deal on a Microtek/Artixscan 2500. It's a *huge* mother of a scanner but does a beautiful job and delivers an honest 2500 dpi from sheet film, in a single pass, in about three minutes. Results are awesome, if I do say so myself. I mean, nothing so far that's going to win any contests or sell for big bucks, but the tonality and detail blew me away and even impressed my wife, which is saying a lot. The image below is the first photo out of this camera: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Here's a small detail from at full scan resolution: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchendetail.jpg One hundred million pixels all told. Life is good. So there it is. Start of a new adventure. It's been cold & windy in Boston of late, and not all that pretty, but I'm already thinking of the photo ops that await... either with spring or (more likely) a good dose of fresh snow. Rather a different trip from shooting with the 10D, I'll say that much G. Regrets? Well, hell, it's a lot of work and WAY slow and I really miss having ICE to clean up my scans. For now, I'm stuck with sending my film off for processing, which kinda sucks. A tip of the hat to Steve's great book and to Jack Dykinga's book and my good friend Carl for getting me this far. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 06:54:46 GMT, "MikeWhy"
wrote: "Raphael Bustin" wrote in message .. . below is the first photo out of this camera: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Here's a small detail from at full scan resolution: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchendetail.jpg One hundred million pixels all told. Life is good. That does take one's breath away. Window screening from across the room, too. Have you done the math on that? Not exactly. What I've seen are some MTF figures for the SW 90 that were quite impressive. For a long time I've considered the "real" information content of film to be in the 2500 dpi to 4000 dpi range. See: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/jmdavis I've worked with CCD film scanners at 1950 dpi, 2700 dpi and 4000 dpi. There's clearly a diminishing return as one goes higher. If I had infinite bucks and computing power I'd get a drum scanner or an Imacon. I sure wish Nikon (or anybody) made an up to date 4x5 film scanner that I could afford. In any case, 4x5 has 20 square inches vs. about 1.5 square inches for 35 mm, and about 4 square inches from 645. I imagine good scans from 4x5 should make awesome 32 x 40" prints. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:12:59 -0700, narnold
wrote: Exciting, and nice work too. I like your Hawaii photos. I consider Hawaii to be a lot more challenging to photograph than places like the desert southwest., You obviously have a good grounding, and are going to fall deeply in love with LF. Hawaii challenging? It's one of the most photogenic places on the planet, IMO. I'd love to spend more time in the Southwest. I know very little about that part of the country. Just gotta watch out for the scorpions, I hear. Thanks for the kind words. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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Scorpions in the southwest, Centipedes in Hawaii. Don't get me wrong,
I love hawaii, especially places like Haleakala, Waipio Valley, Hana, etc. I think the problem I have there is that I get a bit overwhelmed with the lushness, and I find the light to be different from what I'm accustomed to. On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:12:59 -0700, narnold wrote: Exciting, and nice work too. I like your Hawaii photos. I consider Hawaii to be a lot more challenging to photograph than places like the desert southwest., You obviously have a good grounding, and are going to fall deeply in love with LF. Hawaii challenging? It's one of the most photogenic places on the planet, IMO. I'd love to spend more time in the Southwest. I know very little about that part of the country. Just gotta watch out for the scorpions, I hear. Thanks for the kind words. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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Raphael Bustin wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:12:59 -0700, narnold wrote: Exciting, and nice work too. I like your Hawaii photos. I consider Hawaii to be a lot more challenging to photograph than places like the desert southwest., You obviously have a good grounding, and are going to fall deeply in love with LF. Hawaii challenging? It's one of the most photogenic places on the planet, IMO. I'd love to spend more time in the Southwest. I know very little about that part of the country. Just gotta watch out for the scorpions, I hear. Thanks for the kind words. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com For me it was rattlesnakes, almost stepped onto one just outside of Albequerque while scambling over rocks for some pics. Ouch and watch out for those crotch high catuses,...I got a leg full of very painfull 1.5" needles running back to the range rover for my meter. -- LF website http://members.bellatlantic.net/~gblank |
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"narnold" wrote in message ... Scorpions in the southwest, [...] Scorpions are really no problem. Nor are the rattlesnakes, and Tarantulas are just big friendly critters. But back to the quality of the image Rafe posted - Say Rafe! I see a tiny dustball in the corner. It's about the size of a gnat. |
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Raphael Bustin wrote:
Maybe to change the tone a bit, here's the story of my first foray into LF over the last few days and weeks. I've been shooting 35 mm and MF since I was a brat, and working mostly in the "digital darkroom" since 1998 or so. One can never have enough pixels, you know... The gear includes a new Shen-Hao 4x5 and Nikon SW-90 f/8 from Badger. The rest of it -- film holders, spot meter, tripod, etc -- were either from my existing kit or borrowed. For my first outing I shot Portra 160 VC. For scanning, I found super hot deal on a Microtek/Artixscan 2500. It's a *huge* mother of a scanner but does a beautiful job and delivers an honest 2500 dpi from sheet film, in a single pass, in about three minutes. Results are awesome, if I do say so myself. I mean, nothing so far that's going to win any contests or sell for big bucks, but the tonality and detail blew me away and even impressed my wife, which is saying a lot. The image below is the first photo out of this camera: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Great picture for a first attempt in relatively difficult lighting. You might experiment with taking the same picture but with verticals kept parallel, to familiarize yourself with movements. Here's a small detail from at full scan resolution: http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchendetail.jpg One hundred million pixels all told. Life is good. So there it is. Start of a new adventure. It's been cold & windy in Boston of late, and not all that pretty, but I'm already thinking of the photo ops that await... either with spring or (more likely) a good dose of fresh snow. Rather a different trip from shooting with the 10D, I'll say that much G. Regrets? Well, hell, it's a lot of work and WAY slow and I really miss having ICE to clean up my scans. For now, I'm stuck with sending my film off for processing, which kinda sucks. A tip of the hat to Steve's great book and to Jack Dykinga's book and my good friend Carl for getting me this far. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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"Leonard Evens" wrote in message
... http://www.terrapinphoto.com/kitchen2.jpg Great picture for a first attempt in relatively difficult lighting. You might experiment with taking the same picture but with verticals kept parallel, to familiarize yourself with movements. I thought briefly earlier to comment on this also, but in the opposite direction. I especially liked it that it wasn't so static, so tensely vertical and formally posed. I also wondered if it wasn't intentional, and if kitchen1.jpg was the one that was tipped vertical. :-) |
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