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As a lab running Frintier Labs I can tell you that the SP2000 and SP2500 scanners can scan your negatives.

 

The SP1500 was a linear scanner and would band on underexposed negative, the SP2000 and SP2500 use a high powered LED lightsource to basically take a digital photo of your negative.

 

Most consumer Frontiers are set to a default program called "all soft" to intentionally decrease the contrast range of film so that underexposures and overesposures are compensated for, kind of like a levels adjustment in photoshop only without the controls.

 

Ask you lab tech to scan using "All Hard" with the "Hypertone" feature turned off ohterwise you'll get an odd hallowing around your subject and the blacks will go cobalt blue.

 

Hope that helps.

The magic number of rolls per day on a 410 is 10, less than that your plots will go haywire.

 

We ran one for years but once the local optician went digital and our counts dropped from 30 to 6-8 rolls per day we found ourselfs spending $300-400 in chemistry/starter and labor to keep the processor going.

 

Finally scrapped it and a film recorder.

 

Sad day... The good news was the space it took is now filled with a Chromira ProLab 5x 30" silver halide printer/processor.

Sorry to hear about your experience.

 

I own a lab and my employees could make 4x6, 5x7 and maybe a 6x9 from your files that would be acceptable, beyond that 1200x800 is going to show pixels.

Charles, I have had stunning 30x40's made from E1 files.<p> If you are using Photoshop download a free trial version of Lizard Technologies (www.lizardtech.com) Genuine Fractals, this program converts your jpg's and tif's to vector files (similiar to fonts) so that they can be increased up to 600% (their numbers) with little noticeable loss. <p>The best prints I have had made are from labs using ZBE Chromira printers printed on Fuji Chrystal Archive Paper.<p>Make 'em big and have fun.

Ellen,<p>I use the 24mm TSE lens for table top work on a 10D and 20D and find it very functional. I use it for photographing table settings, stemware and other reflective objects that being able to move slightly off center removes my reflection from shiny objects. It also helps keep plates looking round instead of oval.<p>On the opposite end it can also be used to elongate or intentionally distort.<p>Of course the big benefit is architecture. Perspective control with a much smaller package than a view camera or flexibody.<p>Hope this helps.

When we put ourselves "out there" be it in a relationship, circle of friends or simply on the "net" in a forum we open ourselves up to the scrutiny of others.

 

Some use comments or rating simply to be hateful or lash out. Think of the first time your child said "I hate you" and the fealing that welled up inside. As an adult you did not return the comment, instead you probably embraced your child with the warm arms of love that you had always used (while tearing up inside, and remembering when you had said "THAT" to you mother/father).

 

If someone (with a body of work or without) offers a low rating simply realize that is their opinion at that moment. Breathe and remember what made you create the image in smile inward.

 

There will always be a bully in the school yard, a menace at the office, etc. And above all a heart (yours) that can embrace them all.

 

For all of the 2's our photo's recieve there will be a 7. Perhaps that picture brought a tear of a positve memory to a persons eye. I'll take 2's all day long if that is the case.