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Adobe Camera Raw
mendel_leisk replied to michaellinder's topic in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
<p>Another way to look at it: ACR has the ability to <em>produce</em> a jpeg, or tiff, or various other formats. Your raw file is left alone, but ACR will remember your preferences for producing the viewable image.</p> -
<p>Are you thinking to do old-school enlarging as well, or just film developing, and then scan? If it's just developing film you're going to undertake, a small bathroom is good, preferably windowless. Safelights are not a factor, you need total darkness, and just until the film is loading into the canister.</p> <p>When light sealing the room I would suggest to check by just sitting in there for a few minutes, then looking for light leaks, as your eyes get more sensitive. You really don't want to see any. Everything helps. For example, with my setup (which I use very infrequently, lol) I would only develop film at night: bright daylight outside might overpower my efforts. :)</p>
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Want to process B&W again after 30 years
mendel_leisk replied to david_johnson64's topic in Black & White Practice
<p>David, you mention having a changing bag. Did you use one before, and you're comfortable with it? Just my thought: if you can light seal a small bathroom it makes things a lot easier.</p> -
Switching to Film after 12 years - I am lost
mendel_leisk replied to georgi_grancharov's topic in Black & White Practice
<p>Dedicated film scanner? Though the main players of yesteryear are out of production, support gone, and compatibility with latest operating systems getting very iffy.</p> <p>I'm looking at a Minolta Scan Elite 5400 (first version) and a Nikon V, sitting on the upper shelf of my station. But both are very dusty...</p> -
Make Copy of Histogram
mendel_leisk replied to keith_jones8's topic in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
<p>+1 for Windows Snipping Tool, very fast and convenient. Assign it a hot-key, say "S", then no matter what program you're in, just do ctrl-alt-S to invoke it.</p> -
Time to ditch your $4000+ DSLR
mendel_leisk replied to hjoseph7's topic in Casual Photo Conversations
<p>The phone's ubiquity <em>alone</em> is threatening the DSLR. You always carry your phone. A bulky camera, perhaps with a menagerie of lens, stifles spontaneity. Yeah, I have one of those, a Canon 5DIII, and the arsenal of lens, sadly not seeing not much use.</p> -
<p>If and when you purchase Vuescan, go for Pro version. The cheaper one only allows updates for one year, and I believe also locks out the (invaluable) Raw Scan file function.</p> <p>I wouldn't hesitate to use it sooner; wouldn't consider it just an adjunct to lack of Microsoft support. It's very useful for any other scanners you might have too, say a flatbed.</p> <p>https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc11.htm#appendixa</p>
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<p>There's several references in the article to external hard drives, that's all. Anyone using <em>internal</em> hard drives, ie: an extra hard drive inside the case, say d:? That's worked for me, for several decades, coupled with dual dvd disc archives, when space requires.</p> <p>On a windows system robocopy is indispensable for me, very effective in a batch file.</p>
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<p>Hah, thought this would be about "dodging" prints.</p>
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Scanning for large print
mendel_leisk replied to john_boyd9's topic in The Wet Darkroom: Film, Paper & Chemistry
<p>And, just run a scan or two, at that resolution and down a it lower, see how it works out. 240 dpi might be a bit high, considering the purpose.</p> -
<p>What you can do to lube filter threads: is run your finger along the side your nose, picking up a little skin oil, then run your finger along the filter threads.</p>