well, not to derail, but I have a Manfrotto ballhead which was cheap enough that I don't worry about it and it completely rocks. I'd never go back to a 3-way. The camera-flopping thing is in my...
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well, not to derail, but I have a Manfrotto ballhead which was cheap enough that I don't worry about it and it completely rocks. I'd never go back to a 3-way. The camera-flopping thing is in my...
Thanks for the pointer to the consumer reports bug repellent test. The results were very interesting. Top was 98% Deet but the 3M Ultrathon with only 34% Deet was second, with about 7+ hrs...
The way to be really sure about this stuff is to learn how to do the calculations yourself. However, most DOF tables are based on a 10x magnification. You need to figure out what stop is the...
Oh, and they DO get into the camera. On the noblex they settle on the drum while it is rotating and crawl in through the slit. You have to wait for them to die and shake them out.
Frank -- when hacking around in the Canadian bush you worry about long term exposure to Deet for about 1 second before you start worrying more about being lifted bodily by a swarm of the bastards and...
Spring is sprung / The grass is riz / I wonder where / The Deet is?
I was shooting in a swamp last week and assailed by sun and mosquitoes. Luckily I found a cache of 10-year old 90% Deet, but it...
I cut my own. I have one of those mid-level Logan mat-cutters (without the T-bar). It works great.
Kirk -- I bought a 7800 and it replaces everything. Sensational printer. BW is better than piezo on Silver Rag at least.
A second vote for Portra. I shoot both 160NC and 400NC and I use a half stop extra between 1s and 10s, and a stop from 10s to 20s. Anything longer than that and I go home. I tend to expose the 160 at...
I like Flexcolor a lot better than Silverfast. Once you get your profiles right, bingo.
How can a person who has never seen a K3 print on Museo Silver Rag be so dismissive of inkjet prints?
Yes, a big influence on me as well.
The overhead in Parallels is supposed to be of the order of 2%, which would make it much faster than running under Rosetta.
Your 2 cents are over-valued.
All too often when we discuss scanning we tend to think in terms of the results from a 4990 or even an 1800f. IMO an Imacon is not all that much better but is jus the next step up the line.
I...
I've seen 24x30 prints from both 22MP backs and well-scanned 4x5 (Imacon) and the 4x5 beats the 22MP hands down.
The difference is night and day. The digital stuff looks good until you get up...
Photoshop. For the following reason:
If you buy any other image editing app, will you at some point hit a point where you wonder/realize you should probably have bought Photoshop instead?
...
Check the edges of the septums for any kinks or bends and straighten them out, especially right at the end where the film slips in.
I think the official way of lubricating them was a little bit of...
no beard. specs. all my original hair and teeth.
The question is not so much whether an ideal inkjet print is better than an ideal silver gelatin print, but if YOUR inkjet print is going to be better than YOUR silver gelatin print.
I am no...
I use Levels, Curves, some form of sharpening and spotting on every image. I use adjustment layers with layer masks on about 25%.
It's a cliche and it onlly really works for images where the...
are you sure that is not lens fungus?
No, it's face fungus.
I agree... I don't think 120 is going away any time soon. We may become restricted in terms of color emulsions but to be honest it is not a huge loss as the ones that survive are likely to be...
I agree with the ink usage thing. I also have a 2200 which is pretty much always flashing one ink position or another as about to run out or totally run out. When you buy the 7800 you have to budget...
yes, the Horseman prices are right up there with the Linhof prices. But you only buy it once, I figure.
I second the advice that if you are looking at the 4800, consider the 7800. It's not that much more but it goes all the way, baby. The biggest difference is that you will probably spend most of your...
They also have specs on the new Horseman 6x17. I talked to them the other day and they expect them in 'any time'.
@Mike Boden.
Could it be, could it possibly be, that you can run MAC OS X ON THE SAME MACHINE??
Could that be it??
Do you think?
Do ya???
You can also try Harry's Pro Shop in Toronto -- he had a load of used Nikon Technika boards in stock the last time I was there.
Failing that it takes about 30 secs to drill a hole for the set...
Luminous Landscape has some notes on the new Hahnemuhle paper here:
www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/h-fap.shtml
it sounds as if it uses optical brighteners as the surface is a lot...
how to you wacom veterans use the pressure sensitivity with photoshop? is there any standard set of variables to control with it?
I use the defaults in OS X, which is for pressure to control the...
I dispensed with a mouse a while ago. I use a combination of a Logitech trackball for mousing-style stuff, and a first generation 4x5 Wacom Graphire for drawing and painting-style activities. These...
compared to this discussion, counting angels on the heads of pins seems like a worthy scientific endeavor
It is easy to dial in snap, crackle and pop to inkjet prints but there's no such thing as a free lunch. Pop is usually at the expense of depth... you sacrifice the smoothness of your midtones for a...
[update - color printing]
Well, I can now tell you about the color prints too. Most of the reviews say something like 'the color prints are very good but the BW is what it's all about'. However I...
A few loose ends:
QTR: I haven't installed it for the 7800 because the Epson driver does such a great job at BW. Like I say I convert the BW images to RGB and then add a toning Curves layer. This...
In a sense the photography has been lifted up by the bootstraps of the writing.
I think that is partly true for the later work. It certainly makes you look much deeper into the photographs....
I really like the base color. It is slightly warmer and slightly less white than HPR but the blacks are so much deeper that it seems whiter when you view the print.
Don, they are for me but that has been true with inkjet prints for a while for me, because I am not a darkroom hero. However this paper brings the 'look' much much closer to that of silver gelatin...
Oh, also I am printing from an RGB file rather than using Advanced Black & White, as the proof preview is much more accurate. I add a toning curves layer to the neutral gray file with points which...
I am using the K3 Ultrachromes in the Epson 7800 for this. Photo black ink.