I've seen the results for myself and would go for the Nikon 9000. However, I've not seen the 4x5 under Microtek M1. That scanner is supposed to be better than the Epsons.
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I've seen the results for myself and would go for the Nikon 9000. However, I've not seen the 4x5 under Microtek M1. That scanner is supposed to be better than the Epsons.
TechPan is amazing!
you can use vevlia
one trick i use is to load the film under my shirt, to block the remaining light.
Hehehe =)
I started out shooting slides in 35mm and B&W in 4x5... but now it's the other way around. The thing is that I notice a huge difference between the quality of 35mm slides and 4x5 slides,...
so has anyone else tried this yet?
what about them? how well do they work with printer?
what about inkjet printing on silver gelatin, like Ilford Multigrade IV RC paper? what inks for that?
they test Minox lenses with TechPan film, and got 177 lp/mm f/3.5. so assuming TechPan itself has a resolution of 320 lp/mm, then that means that Minox lens has an aerial resolution of 360 lp/mm.
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hmm... when i'm not using movements i usually go through 24 shots in a matter of an hour or less. i keep a changing bag and a pack of film in my car. the thing holding me back from shooting my 4x5...
I played with the Zeiss 35/2 Distagon (a 35mm lens) on my 4x5 camera and wow! At close distance and stopped down a bit, it has a huge 200mm image circle! I can use it on my 4x5 camera with movements...
contact prints from 5x7 also tiny... 8x10 is a must for contact prints anyway!
that's why 4x5 is better. i can fit the camera and a dozen holders in my backpack.
seems easier to just use a regular camera and make 3 exposures
you can also just view the picture on your monitor and snap a picture of your monitor on slide film.
audioexcels, i have done by experiments and found the perfect paper: another sheet of 4x5 film. the ones with a clear base.
it also varies from developer to developer. i've shot TriX at EI 25,600 for example, with surprisingly nice results.
is 6x17 considered large format?
450mm sounds about right. get a bigger bellow.
"optimized aperture" is meaningless when a good lens can give you the same 60 lp/mm from wide open at f/4.5 down to f/22. beyond that, diffraction limits resolution.
big brother will take care of you
you can shoot them wide open, and they would still be sharp. it's a matter of how much DOF you want.
it depends on your standards. i use a D50 too and can tell you that a 4x5 scanned on a cheap Epson will give you 10x the resolution of the D50. A drum scanner would be much better still.
For 16x20...
you can't take pictures with a view camera while moving in a car, so i don't understand what the gas price has to do with it. it's more worthwhile to walk to distant lands and take pictures on a...
i have a question. does 6x9 cm count as large format?
actually this method would save me a lot of time compared to what i'm doing now, which is coloring my B&W prints by hand using a fine brush.
why is the dum scanner at 2000dpi sharper than the M1 at 2000dpi? does this mean that the M1's optical resolution is lower than 2000dpi?
what about the blue skys? red and green clouds?
Very interesting! Can we see examples of this?
With the cost of 4x5 color film over $2 per sheet these days, and with the even more expensive cost to develop, I'm looking at $5 a photo or more. B&W film is only $0.40 a sheet and development is...
i would still rather buy a Nikon F from a member on this board than risk getting ripped off on eBay.
I could see people selling memory cards as being the wrong place for this forum, but I don't see what the issue is if people sell things of interest to the majority of LF photographers like a Mamiya...
in general, if we wanted the print to really last a long time, what can we do about it? the really old prints i have (some over 100 years old) use papers which seem to be falling apart but the actual...
Hi Sandy, for MF the Rollei Pan 25 is very similar to the old TechPan:
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=403&pid=1000001679
Should allow for massive enlargements, but for normal...
I don't like how Selenium toning changes the original contast. Wouldn't gold toning be better?
but i've seen silver coins that are tarnished and yucky brown. isn't it similar to rust? would it be better to use gold toner as gold does not tarnish?
Cool! Platinum prints sound interesting,...
somewhere on the nikon industrial lenses website, but i can't find the link anymore. they are the lenses used to make your computer chip, so very very high resolutions are needed. these lenses cost...
wouldn't the silver rust over time in fiber paper? i don't want my prints to rust, no, i want my prints to last at least 500 years. we have family pictures on silver gelatin that is over 100 years...
Thanks for the advice, I'll rewash all my prints. Is tap water OK?
That's interesting. Shouldn't RC paper outlast fiber paper since it has a plastic coating? In fiber paper, there is no...
I do use fiber paper sometimes but mostly I use RC paper because the results look the same to me, and RC paper doesn't curl. I washed them for 10 seconds. They smell like fixer. Would this affect the...