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I still am not sure how much information you need the final image to contain. There are shift adapters for putting MF lenses onto a 35mm mount to allow what you are looking for or you can use Canon...

Both foamcore and acid-free Crescent board come that way - I learned of their existence from your help. Seems like the simplest way to DIY for large sizes - even possible for the 24x60's on...

Thank you Drew - the lustre prints already have something akin to orange-peel in their surface so something that might mar a gloss finish would be somewhat forgiven. The Maxit coater and Solo roller...

I have in the past mounted some of my 24x30 or 24x36 or 24x60 etc (Ultrachrome on lustre) prints with adhesive but it was tedious and gave me migraines from the aerosols.

I am looking for some...

Someone who gets it! The tablet screen acting as GG (with built-in 10x zoom, no loupe needed) WYSIWYG for a DSLR with an excellent lens - flat stitch to 50-60 MP...

I use mirror lock-up and 10 sec timer - my camera stand is not the greatest and exposures are indeed down in that range where I'd normally do that for taking pictures. I blended a 1 sec exposure...

Just noticed this set of threads!
I have a Rosco LitePad 6x6 and it is described as ~6000K with a CRI of 93. I put a 3mm sheet of "white" plastic from TapPlastics (eyeballed as "neutral") as a...

You're talking getting one functional sensor out of a single 6 or 8 inch silicon wafer at 100% yield - someone in the industry might be able to give us an idea of the cost of that processing....

Thanks Ken - I'd forgotten that connection. Maybe Microtek has a service manual? :D

Mine is acting up and I think I need some internal help to set it right again - overview scan looks OK but actual scan looks like a small out of focus version of what it should be - I think a mirror...

r.e. I have a 20x44 hanging on the wall from my 7600 - mmm nice :D

The extent to which the various images need to be manipulated to create a seamless composite varies. If the lens moves between...

One of the factors I considered when buying my 4x5 was back-cross. My Ebony has more than your camera but even with yours you can get a 4x9 (2 + 5 + 2) chunk of the image circle by using the...

I use PKS mainly for the output sharpening. (I know there's more to it but) I think of it as "They tested all the basic paper/output types and common ppi choices and optimized the sharpening for...

Donald,
Thanks for going back to look. What you suggest meets 2 of my goals : it generates a crop with the aspect ratio defined by the preset tool created (e.g., using the size 4x5 in inches) and...

I got the "Image/crop after using a constrained aspect ratio rectangular marquee selection" practice from Martin Evening's book. He didn't mention that it could be done with the crop tool, that's...

Similar problem.
I always use the rectangle selection mode and Image/crop command because I've never figured out how to use the crop tool to do the following: set a rectangular selection with a...

Thanks Ben - I was assuming you would put the light source on the XY and move it (and the film) around under the camera on its stand. That's how I would be doing it. The use with a camera was a...

Thanks for the update - I sort of thought a good flat-field lens would be required, even with distortion correction available in DPP or DxO etc. (Did you use any such corrections in your...

I think they have not really seen a good large LF print to know what they are missing :)

Many of those discussions also do not reveal the viewing distance, let alone comparator, so it's not clear...

I'd get out my Photoshop manual to see how to subtract the orange and then maybe invert and then ...




... ask for help :)
(luckily all my needs are transparencies so I won't have to solve...

Great! May not be the sturdiest XY system for heavy-duty field work and a 10lb camera rig but it should hold a small lightpad* Don't forget that with LiveView10X focusing on the 5D2 should be superb...

The 6"x6" xy focusing rail is only $35 and the LitePad (or cheaper alternative) could be used to create a custom WB and an image made of it with no film to create a mask for use on PS to even out...

Now that's "sub-pixel" peeping on a macro scale :)

You could attach one of these
LED light-pads to a 6”x6” 4 way Macro Focusing Rail Slider and get pretty good reproducible precision and (probably quite uniform) good color. Use custom WB,...

If you have a DSLR and a good macro lens/tubes, it might make a nice backlight to take high res pix of your 4x5s to flat stitch into a great digital image (aka scan) - even providing total control...

Thanks Ken,
I've always wondered how the preview step worked - and I'm still not sure.

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Let's think about two examples (using transparencies to keep it simple). 1) A typical well...

Thank you all, Ken in particular, for the help and examples.

I have a question - do the adjustments recommended for the scan acquisition affect the hardware (and therefore the actual raw data...

Red's new announcements

28,000 x 9,334 pixels (of 6 micron size) at up to 25 fps (for just the right capture :):) :cool:

$tart $saving but keep your LF lenses

They do have smaller ones...

Lots of good advice above. I had a similar problem getting into 4x5 until I accepted the "you gotta take it with you every time" maxim. The key for you is to overcome the tendency to just take the...

Thanks - that sound like some good data to come from your interest in the unit - I'm glad you have those Ronchis already , I suspect they're expensive:D.

Also, your pitching in will help relieve...

Anyone have any plans to check it out - along with the Dmax evaluation? I'd be very interested - and grateful to whoever could evaluate it. That would be a terrific reason to get one if the...

I have a 7600 and have never used a RIP, just the Epson driver, and it works very well. For a couple of jumping-in points for color management and how to do it : there's a very good book ( 2nd Ed...

Joe, Here's a useful trick, especially if the masks are fiddly.

I, too, use both kinds of photography (grainography and pixelography) but don't consider either one more "real" than the other. For me, it is the viewed final image that is of concern and not any...

Thanks Ted, My main issue with my T2500 has been worsening shadow noise (and operator underexposure to reveal it) so a noticeable improvement with multi-sampling on the M1 may be worth the upgrade. ...

Barry, Thanks for the evaluation already and trying the multi option - pick your most troublesome shadows :)

Thanks
Andy

I'm happy to see LaserSoft's participation and response to the issue too!
With the fixes to the software, can I ask if anyone has tried multiple-pass scanning (or is the M1 capable of...

Thanks Peter - I'll definitely check into that - I think the T2500 might be one of those
[Edit]Doesn't look like it can do multiple samples per pass - SilverFast may also not be able to get it do...

I'm OK with the resolution from my scanner - I can't see much detail using a loupe (or digital image) that is not present in the scan. However, it appears that scanner software cannot (or has not...

Thanks Peter. That's a useful pdf and refreshes my memory of how I did my IT8 a long time ago and why I always just did a "raw" scan and attached the scanner profile and did the rest in Photoshop! ...