havanai

<p>Wow....good news, a pleasant surprise.</p>

<p>Sam and others,<br>

If I hear from her, I'll post something here too.</p>

 

<p>For my new Epson 1400 I am going to have profiles made for the papers I use. You have to normalize your printer and use the same settings to print your color grids as you will use when you get your profiles. I went to Control Panel - Printers and looked at Properties for the 1400. Under the Color Management tab you get two choices: AUTOMATIC - Windows will automatically select the best color profile from the list of color profiles. Or MANUAL - Manually select the defaulte color profile for all output from this device from the list of associated color profiles.<br>

I am going to use papers from Hahnemuhle, Inkpress, and Calumet's Brilliant papers for proofing. What choice should I make in the Printer Properties, Color Management tab? Automatic or Manual? And, if I choose Manual, in the list there are profiles for several Epson, none of which I am going to use, and a choice of E_FICMBUA. What the heck is E_FICMBUA?<br>

Second, I have tried to print a few samples, even though I don't have profiles yet, on Hahnemhule's Photo Rag and Bamboo. They are blotchy. The printer doesn't seem to lay ink down very well on these papers. Is anyone using this Epson 1400 successfully with these Hahnemuhle papers?</p>

<p>I tried to post a question in the Printer forum and got a message that messages couldn't contain HTML language and a whole bunch of other stuff. None of that stuff was in my question....I just typed text. Why am I getting this error message and rejection?</p>

<p>Hmmm. I've had her make profiles for me 3 years ago, a year and a half ago, and 7-8 months ago. I don't know what her affliction is, but she has several times alluded to chronic health issues. In my experience, she has been erratic in responding to e-mails. I have a new printer, for which I'd like to have her make profiles again. E-mailed her on the 13th and the 15th of January and have not heard back from her yet. That's not terribly unusual, but now reading Sam's query, I am concerned she's having a flare-up of whatever her health issue is. Hard to tell. Personally, I hope she is all right and relative to my photo work, I hope so too. I think she makes very good profiles.</p>

Just back from a week in Montana. I see the arrows have been turned to medium gray, lessening their impact. Could still be better, i.e. less intrusive, but this was a step in the right direction. Thanks.

I am amazed that they seem to have added to the number of views. That's nice, but they are still too big, too colorful, and maybe the biggest issue, TOO CLOSE* to the sides of the images. How about putting them outside of the white area that surrounds the photo and the comments?

 

 

*I am not shouting, I wish I could underline or italicize.

 

Thanks, Kurt

My suggestion is that you revise the standard view of individual photos. The big white arrows in blue rounded

rectangles that flank each photograph now when you view them one at a time are thoroughly distracting. An image

looks best when presented on a plain background. With these two arrows protruding from the sides of the image,

you are really crowding it and detracting from the viewers' ability to enjoy the picture. There's enough

framing, titling, advertising, and additional images around each image. The photographs shouldn't have to fight

for attention among all that clutter. It's not a bad feature to be able to scroll through the work of a

photographer you might enjoy. But move the arrows down to the bottom of the screen, lighten and de-saturate

their color, and make them smaller. As they are now, they just make it harder for the photographs to have their

full impact on us, the viewers who want to appreciate and learn from them.

Kurt Kramer

Long-time Subscriber

Well, you don't "get a tripod plate out of the deal as well". You gotta buy a plate and buy a strap. There are a number of different plate choices: plain, or to fit a quick-release tripod, or one of the above with the capability to add a neck strap in addition to your hand strap.

After several years of use, I just bought a replacement for my original

hand-strap from Camdapter. The old one didn't wear out or anything, but after

3-4 years of contact with the back of my hand and skin oils thereon, it just had

gotten a little slick.

I do a fair amount of travel, much of it at photo-workshops involving a lot of

hiking. I have never liked having a camera on a strap around my neck, bouncing

off my chest as I walked. I had an old Olympus IS-3 that had a built in

hand-strap. When I bought my Canon EOS-3 and subsequently a 5D, I wanted to

carry them in hand the same way. An industrial designer in Ohio, Jim Garavuso,

has designed a creative product that makes it very comfortable and easy to carry

your camera while walking, standing, or shooting. You don't even really have to

grip your camera. The strap just hugs it to your hand.

A plate is attached via the tripod hole on the bottom of your camera and the

hand-strap attaches there and to one of the neck strap lugs or loops on the top

of your camera. And they can provide plates that are shaped like the quick

release plates for popular tripods. I never take it off.

I have no connection with, receive no money from Camdapter. I just think it's a

great product that more people should know about. Check it out at

www.camdapter.com.

Kurt Kramer

I am interested in a workshop/tour of Isles of Skye and Orkney in Scotland.

It's offered by Strabo Tours. Does anyone have any experience as a participant

in one of their tours? Would you recommend them? Thanks, Kurt Kramer

This may be going a bit astray, but how does the performance of this printer compare with the Epson 3800 or the Canon iPF5000? Or at significantly higher prices, are these comparisons unfair to HP?

Has anyone used it with HahneMuhle papers, i.e. Photo Rag? Have you created an ICC profile? Or have you had a profile made by a third party? It seems I've read that this printer can make its own profiles? Is that true?

We obviously didn't find the right combination of profiles, Media Type, converting or assigning profiles, letting printer or photoshop (or none of the above) determine color, etc. Every print we made with the 3800 was inferior to the prints I made on my Epson 1280 using profiles from Cathy's Profiles in California. My old printer's blacks were blacker and the images were just snappier or crisper. I was really quite amazed. I was on the verge of buying this printer, but won't quite yet. I'd really like to have the archival characteristics, but not at the expense of inferior print quality. After reading all of the glowing reviews, I thought this printer was the answer. It may still be, but maybe not with HahneMuhle Photo Rag. My friend printed a color test image, that also contained gray scales, on Epson's Velvet Fine Art. I came home and printed the same image on my 1280. Hard to distinguish, but his image may be a little better. So, it's obvious, that if a combination of dialog box choices exists that produces good prints with HahneMuhle Photo Rag, we did not find it.

Thanks guys. Interesting. I wrestle with the idea of converting to or assigning a profile to the image before printing and then choosing "Let Printer Manage Color" or No Color Management. Or...not converting or assigning and then when printing, selecting "Let Photoshop Manage Color" and choosing the profile in the Print dialog box. I did some experimenting and didn't see much if any difference with the HahneMuhle papers on my 1280. I have fiddled with the Kodak Professional Inkjet paper and with it, you absolutely have to assign the profile first. I printed the HahneMuhle Handling Instructions and was surprised to see that even for the Photo Rag Matte paper they claim to have profiled with the Media Type set to Premium Luster Photo Paper. I've been setting it to Heavyweight Matte. I actually think a HahneMuhle tech guy named Sven told me that was the choice. I'll try the Luster setting too. Thanks for the lead on Legion Moab. I tried Red River without success, but haven't tried Moab, though I've been curious about it.

Tomorrow I am going to try some of my favorite HahneMuhle papers on a friend's

new Epson 3800. I've downloaded HahneMuhle's profiles, but I need to know what

choices to make in the Properties box. Specifically what Media Type do I select

for these papers?

 

A) HahneMuhle Photo Rag 188 gsm

 

B) HahneMuhle Photo Rag, Bright White 310 gsm

 

C) HahneMuhle Photo Rag, Satin 310 gsm

 

I've e-mailed HahneMuhle, but they haven't responded.

 

Is anyone having success with any of these papers and the 3800? I love the

Photo Rag 188 gsm and Photo Rag, Bright White 310 gsm on my old Epson 1280. The

shadows seem to block up on the satin.

 

Is it the Canon or Hewlett Packard printers with which HahneMuhle now has a

relationship? Maybe, as much as I like their papers, HahneMuhle is not the

brand of choice to use with this Epson printer. What papers do you like for

fine art printing?

 

Thanks, Kurt Kramer

Does anyone have any personal experience yet with the new Epson 3800 printer?

The magazine reviews make it look great. I am especially interested if you have

used it with papers other than Epson's. I am a devotee of papers from

HahneMuhle. From the magazine reviews, it looks as if Epson has included, as

pull-down menu choices, profiles for their brands of paper. If you are using

another brand of paper, have you a) made your own profile, b) paid a service to

make a profile for you, or (I haven't looked yet) c) does HahneMuhle provide

profiles already for their papers on this printer?

A crazy little question: I mail a lot of photos printed on 8.5 X 11 paper. Does

anyone have a source for inexpensive cardboard or other material to insert into

the envelope to stiffen it to prevent bending the photographs? I've used the

cardboard backs of pads of paper, but I mail more photos than I use pads of

paper. I'd like to find something less expensive than mat board. Any ideas?

Thanks.

I know I can receive e-mails sent to me at my photo.net e-mail address. But can

I send an e-mail from that address? That is, can I send an e-mail that will

show havanai@photo.net as my return address?

 

Thanks,

 

Havanai, Kurt Kramer

It seems as if PN has made compromises that affect everyone viewing images in the critique forum when the people who should be affected are the ones who ignore submission guidelines. If someone submits an image that's larger than 680 pixels in its longest dimension, PN should let it bleed off some screens because it's too big. I would think that fewer people would rate those images. In fact, people should be encouraged to post comments saying "Image too large. Re-submit please". That'd be to the detriment of the user who posted an image of the wrong size.

Couldn't PN simply reject the posting of images in which the largest dimension contains more than 680 pixels. People would get the message pretty quickly and then we all wouldn't suffer from bad quality in the Critique Forum or the Rate Recent Photos, wherever it is that they are being re-sized.

What happened to the Critique Forum!?! When reviewing images in a

category, the resolution is terrible and ragged/jagged edges abound.

When you click on an image to get the normal view, it's fine. I don't

mind the new screen layout in the Critique Forum, but why did we lose

quality there?

Bart, Thanks for your reply. Does the Archos AV-500 have slots for Compact Flash memory cards? Also, when I said "edit" I meant "select", not opening Photoshop and manipulating.

I'm taking my digital SLR on a 4-week trip and am trying to find a

good device to which to download images from my memory cards.

Ideally, it would offer a good viewer to enable me to edit after

downloading. And I might benefit by being able to show my images to

other people too, my subjects for example. The only Storage/Viewer

I've seen reviews of is the Epson P-2000. I guess now they're

introducing a larger-capacity P-4000. I guess there's a Wolverine

brand product too. Does anyone have experience and recommendations in

this area? Thanks.

My favorite paper is HahneMuhle Photo Rag...a matte finish that yields the largest tonal range, especially shadow detail, of any paper I've used. I re-iterate the comments on the need to use profiles. HahneMuhle had downloadable profiles for the 2200 and newer Epson printers, but I have a 1280. I had Cathy's Profiles create the profile I use and I was very satisfied.

Just bought a Canon 5D and a 1-gig compact flash card. Think I want

another 1-gig or a 2-gig CF card. Are there substantive differences

in different brands or specs? I didn't pay any attention to what I

bought at the time I purchased the camera....just bought what the

clerk brought out. Should I be more selective for this second

purchase? Thanks.