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I've scanned 8x10" negs with a 10,000xl for a client who is a purist and blew away their expectation....

Hey Matt,
I'm just over the border from you in Temperance.... if you need some one-on-one advice, give me a jingle.

If you have a keen eye and kind of know what you're looking for, you can see the ''optimum aperture'' when you stop down to it. It pops! Typically it's near two stops from open...

BTW: My first...

I scan with emulsion side down with my Epson 10,000xl. I seem to get a better control of sharpness. The only reason I can see with emulsion side up is to get "right reading" of the negative... which...

All of the above.... :) :)

this is a close up pinhole of a Japanese cork sculpture done with a Zero Image @ 75mm in close Plus-X and Sepia toned Brovira...

4x5 Zero Image various focal lengths

My 9600 is as trouble free as my 3800.... maybe needs a little more head cleaning but I always can depend on it. My 4800 has been the most troublesome albeit a good printer too. It don't like to sit...

I use a rubber band about a 1/4" thick to use as a grip.... usually works for me. But before I put filters on, I rub a little graphite from a pencil on the threads first.

FWIW, the maximum resolution for the lens in those Epson v700 is about 2000 dpi.... any thing more than that is just wasting memory. 6400 is an interpolated number that "looks good" on the box.

I have a RC-1100 that was invaluable back in the day when I as still printing RC papers. Those were $900 back then. Could do 300 8x10's an hour. Just place on the belt, set speed and temperature and...

A print isn't that valuable without the signature and the only signature worth anything to a printer is the one on the check... ;)

Feisol 3471 with the offset arm attachment is probably the least expensive and still be in the good category.

Yeah.... why all the fuss.... it's just a print after all.

I use and old Premier guillotine type cutter that I had for the past 35 years. The trick to keeping the blade sharp is to have the tension on the blade adjusted correctly. There is a nut on the left...

Yep... but what doesn't look too far off is a gloss laminated ink-jet. It has that "sparkle" too.... ;)

Maybe so... but I calibrated mine to a standard and normally have about 10 units on each side to play with. It's been so long since I set it up that I forgot it's significance. If the histogram hits...

I don't think he means "circular" vs "linear'' as for the digital sensor sense but round vs square. As for ND filters, I never used them as the exposure times with large format is already slow...

Which one will have the higher profit margin? If it's color, inkjet will probably sell first all things considered equally. B&W hand made has a slightly better appearance, but inkjets are catching...

I use Polarizers all the time... just be cognizant that in B&W as you effect the glare you also effect the presence of shadow. There are other filters for manipulating tone in sky, etc.

When it's an inkjet print.... :)

At Bowling Green State University in Ohio where I went, photography is part of the "Digital Art" program which includes Visual Communications and Fine Art.

You really don't need to set the endpoints either, you can do that post processing in Photoshop or other program. I always make a test print from raw scan before I decide where to go. I would rather...

and the fact that most photographers can't draw....:rolleyes:

I ditto that....

Ok... how about this: a "photographer" is a mechanically inclined "artist" .... ;) ;)

That's because most people understand "illustration" and confuse it with "art". Each requires a certain level of "craft". Both have their place.

it didn't start with dSLR's Guys with Leicas have been comparing images to 4x5's from the start. Photography is more about the "craft" than about "art". Photographers want to think of themselves as...

Ok.... if it's pinhole and in color I'll call it "art".... :)

I'm looking.... ;) ;)

only if I can take her in a fight.... :) :)

when I was doing dupes back in the day I would have to run about a half dozen tests to get the color and exposure value nailed down for each emulsion batch. Once set up it was brain dead from there.

No... has no contrast
No... balanced for tungsten
You can
about 6-12 ISO and there is a filter factor you have to deal with, what's marked on the box is just a starting point because the color of...

That's because they are idiots!

I never met an ''artist'' who had to describe his art in terms of what pencil he draws with or the brand of paint or brushes. Photographers on the other hand are "craft" oriented and the detail is in...

''Greg Lockrey: "B&W is art. Color is illustration." This seems very generalized and inflammatory. Care to explain in greater length what you intend by this statement?''

Art is about inflaming.......

B&W is art. Color is illustration.

You might want to install Parallels or some equivalent program and run your Epson in Windows.... I personally run most of my printing programs in Windows because more of the "buttons" are light up...

It has been a couple of years, but I did load a newer version than the one that came on the disc. Dumping on a Mac is more complicated than you would think... There are places way deep into the...

I have a Mac.... but can't answer specifically to the G4. I was having major slow down with my 10,000xl and was informed that because I also had a 750v installed the Mac was getting confused. If...