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Stieglitz, because the images in his portfolio include several of a woman who was more important than the rest of these people put together, and she comes with Stieglitz as part of the deal :)

Thanks everyone. It sounds like I'm on the right track at least. I clean the scanner glass before use, clean the film, use lots of scanner fluid and a roller and put a clear overlay (mylar?) over...

I'm using a Creo iQSmart scanner with a wet mount attachment for 9x12 and 6x7 to produce 100 megabyte scans that give a print size of 20"x24". I started last week, and it is my first experience with...

Mr. Goldfarb,

I regret that we have not had the pleasure of meeting. While I am envious that you have enough time on your hands that you can play amateur sleuth about people who post to this...

Well actually, this was not a robbery, it was an entry into someone's home while they were not there for the purpose of committing theft. It happens to be one of the commonest of crimes, not...

Ed,

You raise an interesting issue. There are two reasons to include photos of the food. One is to tell the reader what the food will look like, something readers want to know. The other is to...

Could someone tell me what is "excellent" about the photographs on Beth Galton's website. When I look at still life work over time, whether the product of painters or photographers, I don't see what...

Of course, our work will turn out to be a waste of time if the book is printed by a second rate printer on second rate paper. That is the case with an awful lot of the cookbooks that are currently...

If you are talking about the current trend in photography for cookbooks, I suspect that large format is being used little, if at all. It is too expensive. From the books that I have looked at,...

No website, but there's a discussion about the store, with contact info, at: http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/index.php?showtopic=7855&st=0&p=60148&#entry60148

Actually, not across from MSG, but rather just down the street from the Garden parkade and across from the Post Office. Anyway, very curious about Ben's impressions. I thought that is was a very...

Ben,

As you know, it's across from Madison Square Garden. Very curious what you think of it. Stan Wallace, who owns the store, is a pleasure to talk with. I think that most of his clients are...

Actually, let me correct something. What I'm finding with 1/3 stop increments with reversal film is that one of them is indeed sometimes "dead on", but that often the choice between them is one of...

Frank,

Well actually, I am indeed doing 1/3 increments, and I'm finding that it doesn't take anywhere close to a two stop range. It's turning out to be more like one stop (maybe because I'm using...

Bruce,

Yes, I know that reversal film doesn't accurately represent colour. When I started this project, I was using a grey scale or Gretag Macbeth chart in the shots. I've decided that I don't...

Dave,

I posted this partly in jest. I just think it's amusing that I was trying to absorb all this high-level debate about transparencies vs. negatives and what's selling me on transparencies are...

Recently, I had to make a choice between negative and reversal colour film for a project where the final output is digital. I read several threads about the pros and cons. I've been using both...

Unique Photo is 40 miles away in New Jersey. At 18 miles, Brooklyn Camera Exchange is, relatively speaking, just down the street :)

I solved the problem by driving to Manhattan last night and...

There are times, like tomorrow morning, when I need to get my hands on some sheet film or 120 roll film and would rather not drive into Manhattan if it can be avoided. Unfortunately, I've had no...

Paulr,

Re your question about NY labs, I'm happy with Coloredge (www.coloredgenyc.com) on 21st Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Sal,

Fuji was giving away samples of the new 160 film at my...

When E.B. White wrote about living in the country or about his first experience with a Model T ford, he wrote beautifully but not nostalgically. I love Chesterton's essay "A Piece of Chalk", but he...

Yesterday, while using a laptop computer to control a Nikon D70 I concluded that both Nikon Capture software and the camera are worth every cent that I paid for them. Among other things, this setup...

Yu Lu,

Cinematographers working on multi-million dollar productions are using Nikon D-70 cameras and a Kodak cine programme called Look Manager to ensure that what they film on the set is what...

Bosaiya,

Have you read Nestor Almendros's A Man with a Camera?

It is far and away the most inspirational, and for that matter commonsensical, book that I have ever read about photography. ...

If you check the archives, you will find a Canadian supplier that has prices competitive with B&H. I don't know if it is still true, but at the time of the post, this supplier was selling AZO at...

I mentioned the comparison with large format only because I'm sufficiently shell-shocked by 16mm costs that I now find it amusing that I and other large format users sometmes bemoan the cost of the...

I enjoyed your site very much. I'd like to make an observation with which you may or may not agree, but which is intended to be constructive. On the page about purchasing prints, you say: "The...

Robert,

The camera is the portable, dedicated super 16 that Aaton introduced about five years ago. I'll be able to check out the brands of tripod head you mention, hands on, next week. I'd much...

On the off chance that someone is familiar with both video heads and still camera heads...

I have to buy a new pan and tilt head for my 4x5 because my ballhead is driving me crazy when I try to...

"james' idea will work fine until you try to pour the soup into the bowl. ;-)"

Gravity is such a nuisance.

Wilbur,

Thanks for helping me preserve my sanity. I was being told that I should be able to do this, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to maintain the angle of view and get rid of...

I have limited experience with a large format camera and I have not had to worry about things like converging lines. Tomorrow I have to make a photograph in which the camera will be at a 50 to 60...

Today I visited two well-regarded labs in Manhattan to talk about the choice between reversal and negative film. One lab told me that it uses different scanners for negative and reversal film, that...

I think that Henry's point about control is important.

I'm going to take the photographs for the project in relation to which I asked my original question, but at that point the process becomes...

I just looked at the West Coast Imaging web site. Their faq deals expressly with this issue and they are pretty categorical in their statements. See...

Your arguments for negative are exactly what a cinematographer making big budget motion pictures would say. They want the exposure latitude, the tonal range and the raw information before they go...

Kirk,

Thanks. I may try the Fuji.

This is the first time that I'll be using color film for both color and black and white output . I was planning on doing this project, which will involve a...

I will be taking some photographs with daylight color transparency film (Ektachrome), scanning the transparencies and using the scans to produce black and white prints. Some of the photographs will...

Erik,

Do you do copywork or three dimensional ob jects? If the latter, do you orient the chart to the camera or let it lie flat on the table?

If one does one photograph with a chart and one...

Thanks very much for the replies.

The book consists of text and photographs and I believe it will be taken on by a mainstream publisher. My sense, reinforced by the above comments, is that it is...