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    Re: Sick of ballheads... 3way = Arca B1

    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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    Hats, bugspray, boots, sunscreen

    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...
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    About Diffraction

    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...
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    Hats, bugspray, boots, sunscreen

    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.
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    Hats, bugspray, boots, sunscreen

    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...
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    Hats, bugspray, boots, sunscreen

    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...
  7. Do you cut your own mats or order precut mats?

    I cut my own. I have one of those mid-level Logan mat-cutters (without the T-bar). It works great.
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    Where is Archival Ink Going?

    Kirk -- I bought a 7800 and it replaces everything. Sensational printer. BW is better than piezo on Silver Rag at least.
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    need better reciprocity characteristics

    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...
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    Color Negs with Vue Scan

    I like Flexcolor a lot better than Silverfast. Once you get your profiles right, bingo.
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    Archival Glossy Inkjet Prints

    How can a person who has never seen a K3 print on Museo Silver Rag be so dismissive of inkjet prints?
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    Faye Godwin

    Yes, a big influence on me as well.
  13. Photoshop on MacBook Running XP Tests are Great

    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.
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    digital backs

    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...
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    digital backs

    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...
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    photo editing programs

    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?
    ...
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    Lubricating a Grafmatic

    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...
  18. How NOT to Do Large Format, Illustrated -- :o)

    no beard. specs. all my original hair and teeth.
  19. Epson 2200 to 4800 - practicle for hobbiest?

    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...
  20. Often Used Digital Imaging Workflow Techniques?

    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...
  21. How NOT to Do Large Format, Illustrated -- :o)

    are you sure that is not lens fungus?

    No, it's face fungus.
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    New 6x17 camera

    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...
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    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...
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    New 6x17 camera

    yes, the Horseman prices are right up there with the Linhof prices. But you only buy it once, I figure.
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    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...
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    New 6x17 camera

    They also have specs on the new Horseman 6x17. I talked to them the other day and they expect them in 'any time'.
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    Running CS2 on XP on a Bootcamp MacIntel

    @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???
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    Nikon Lens Board: Copal 1 Needed

    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...
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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...
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    Graphic Tablets

    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...
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    Graphic Tablets

    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...
  32. Burtynsky / china / 8x10 or 4x5 ? slides or color

    compared to this discussion, counting angels on the heads of pins seems like a worthy scientific endeavor
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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...
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    [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...
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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...
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    Robert Adams Wins Deutsche Borse Prize

    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....
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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.
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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...
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    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...
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    Crane Museo Silver Rag -- user report

    I am using the K3 Ultrachromes in the Epson 7800 for this. Photo black ink.
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