mark_l3

"Folks like Ellis and others wrote the damn book you read on dynamic range"

 

good thing, the photography isn't very interesting, hey Eric, how is the view from Ellis's backside?

you can argue these points forever, which from the length of this discussion it already has. Regardless of what you use a quality image will shine through.

 

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU USE, SHOW ME WHAT YOU DO WITH IT!!!

if not ansewered already, a bleach/water solution will remove all residue

I routinely dilute develop bw film and can easily get 15 stops. Neither color film nor digital can hold a candle to the tonal ranges or sharpness of bw film, think about this- with bw film I capture and manipulate information from a vast range of tonality (the original scene), with digital or color film you convert to bw from a small very limited range (color film or a digital file), couple this with the fact that bw film holds so much more information and follow the logical conclusions. Granted, this limited range can sometimes work when you don't need much information to get the image you want, and many people settle for this in all images, it's all in what your standards are I suppose.

"It proves that you could just as well have kept your mouth shut, as your argument has nothing to add to this thread."

 

 

 

if it's true for me then it would certainly apply to you as well.

 

 

 

"We all know that situations vary from place to place"

 

 

then why make this statement which infers the opposite?

 

"I know of NOT ONE company that I work with that uses PC's for their graphics design."

 

 

 

 

this would have been a good time to follow your own advice and "keep your mouth shut".

"That's a world dominated by Macs. And yes, the companies I work for all have PC's to do their number crunching. I can't see anything wrong with that. But their graphics departments all use Macs. Just a fact."

 

yeah, it's a fact. In your tiny, speck size corner of the entire world it's true, and for mine the opposite is true. What does that prove? nothing, so what's the point?

 

It's like me saying how the weather is where I live and insisting that somehow that indicates how weather is everywhere else in the world.

"The Imacon 343 does not appear to support 4x5."

 

using the 57x120 holder, you can scan 4x5 in two passes, giving you a 500mb scan, 4x5 scans on a $5000 machine rather than a $10000 machine.

"I know of NOT ONE company that I work with that uses PC's for their graphics design."

 

 

I know more than a few, one for example would be international paper, a company that REALLY has to know their s**t, is all pc.

 

 

"But those who were professionally trained before they started up their business as a photographer use Macs too."

 

this doesn't apply to me either, your limited point of view is useless.

 

It really takes a huge ego for someone to think that what happens in their own little world applies to everyone else.

think about it...the image needs to be big enough so that you can rotate the back, with a polaroid back on you get the full image (not the circular image) which will be 7x7

of course they make a 6x7 carrier for imacon scanners

imacon 343 new $5000

anyone using the zone system should be getting 11 stops from black to white. and with developer manipulation you can easily get 15 stops.

"You won't believe how much better the image quality is from a $200 6x7 SLR than the best 35mm camera and optics."

 

hell yeah!

you can still get some high quality crt's for photo work and you can find some really high quality lcd's for the same, however, you can get the same quality from the crt for hundreds less. Depends on how much desk space you have to spare.

"Check out the photography of Annie Leibovitz. She has worked a lot with Mamiya gear."

 

and the mamiya gear isn't as heavy as some say, just ask annie the mamiya shotput Queen.

if they fixed it so all the ink was used, they would just charge you more. if they fixed it so that you used the same amount you do now, but the cartridge came up empty, they wouldn't charge you any less.

 

as said before, it's insurance against getting air in the jets which would royally screw up your printer and THAT WOULD REALLY CHEAT YOU BIG TIME.

http://www.mamiya.com/mamiya-zd-back.html

 

 

then click on "more info", close to the bottom of the page.

I figured that the two fish shots above would be too similar to tell apart because they are both rezzed down for the screen, but the mamiya image is MUCH sharper--check out the wood post at top and the teeth of the fish. I don't think they are close at all.

"Color negative film prints larger than 8x10 just SCREAM "amateur" and bring up other descriptive words like soft, dull, unsharp, and "not professional."

 

I too would like to add that this answer is nonsense.

 

look at the studio shots here, www.mark-lindsey.com all but two of the images were shot on color negative.

think about the future here, how about the mamiya 645 af? the lenses and bodies are really cheap, and if you want to go digital you can get the new and very affordable zd back. Mamiya will update the 645af to a 645afd for free with a zd back purchase.

maybe you should just go to the mamiya site and see that rb and 645af adapters are on the way, also large format adapters as well. why does this have to be so hard???

get a viewsonic, great flat screens at a great price, and yes I use mine for critical work (pre press and inkjet printing). I wouldn't touch a flat screen for anything beyond using it for tools.

regardless of time, complexity or cost I'll choose bw film over digital original anytime. I can do a lot more with film pre-exposure than can be done with digital. Then I can still scan in my sharper neg full of more tonality and information and do whatever I want with it in photoshop.

 

Z boy, you are only revealing your boundless ignorance of bw film, rather than impressing anyone with your viewpoints. A viewpoint, I might add that is the only bias here since it is not based on fact, but rather your ego.

enough jibber jabber! if you are going to scan and print then use the film that gets you the most information, then do with it whatever you want after it's scanned!

tmax rs is also used for tray dev., and diluted dev. IS NOT unstable. I've diluted tmax rs for many purposes and have diluted hc-110 almost to water for extreme contrast/highlight compensation.