mtbee2004

<p>I wasn't able to Upload with the latest Firefox, but the suggestion of another browser got me to Chrome - where uploading went smoothly. This on an iMac with 10.6.8.</p> <p>Thanks to Lex and Jim for their responses.</p>

<p>Thanks, Bela! I knew the moment i gave the year of my first images that someone would post an earlier start date. I did a quick perusal of your images and it seems that you have indeed gotten things right. A fine portfolio!</p> <p> You can access my Flickr page here: Sorry but you might have to copy and paste.</p> <p>https://www.flickr.com/photos/intrepid_tripod/</p>

<p>I think I took my first photos back before film was invented. Or somewhere around 1961. But I am new to photo.net - at least as a member. I have high regard for the quality and quantity of help offered here. A great community!</p> <p>Switched to digital in 2009 and am glad to be out of the darkroom. Although I have a few years of images to go back to when I grow nostalgic for film. I have shot every format from 35mm to 8x10, and most everything except for about 12000 Kodachromes have been scanned.</p> <p>I have only one web presence and that is on Flickr. </p> <p>https://www.flickr.com/photos/intrepid_tripod/</p> <p>I think if I continue to photograph I will eventually get it right.</p> <p>Mike</p>

<p>Just a bit of full disclosure - Kodak is NOT paying me to say this...<br> <br />When Kodak came out with the "New and Improved" TMY, our lab had access to early pre-release rolls. I instantly shot several rolls at different speeds and developed in different developers. All had incredibly fine grain, high resolution, great shadow and highlight detail. And they all printed in the darkroom with considerably less effort than any other film.<br> But the point where I was converted was the roll shot at 3200 and developed in T-Max developer. The grain looked more like Plus-X than a high speed film. Shot at 400 the film had that delicate, clear base I associated with Panatomic X, my favorite among defunct films.<br> i still find it ironic that Kodak came out with what is arguably their best black and white film since Tri-X and Pan-X at a time when film was going the way of the dinosaurs.</p>

<p>Just 2¢ from someone new to Photo.net. I have used a V700 extensively for slide scans and prefer to do individual slides rather than batch. Mostly because I have had somewhat the same problems with cropping inaccuracies. I find the software provided has some great presets, but limited in other ways - mostly to do with poorly exposed slides.<br> About two years ago I converted to a used Nikon Coolscan L5000 - which I use along with VueScan software exclusively. It took some getting used to, but I use it because I get a digital negative file that is easily adjusted in ACR. This speeds up the actual scan as there are no adjustments made in the actual scanning.<br> VueScan has its quirks. It is a bit dense and non-intuitive, but is extremely powerful once you learn it. And coupled with the older Coolscan, the sharpness and resolution are great.<br> <br />Thanks for listening!</p>