ray-clemmer

<p>i contacted Freestyle and asked their opinions on the subject.. here is the response..<br /><br />Hi Ray,<br /><br />The DeVere digital enlargers are expensive (~$25,000) per unit. I am not<br />sure if you are familiar with Dan Burkholder (<a href="http://www.danburkholder.com/" target="_blank">www.danburkholder.com</a>) but<br />he is the person that mixes both digital and traditional media. There<br />are a lot of people using digital negatives using Dan's methods and have<br />really good success. He has a book "Making Digital Negatives" & a<br />companion CD "Inkjet Negative Companion" that will show you how to print<br />digital negatives for contact printing<br />(<a href="http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/book_info_main_page1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/book_info_main_page1.htm</a>)<br />.<br /><br />I use this process but do alternative processes with a digital negative<br />since I don't have access to a wet darkroom.<br /><br />Let me know if you need more information or have more questions.<br /><br />Oliver Tan<br />Retail Asst. Manager<br /><a href="mailto:oliver@freestylephoto.biz">oliver@freestylephoto.biz</a><br /><a href="tel:323.660.3460%20x152">323.660.3460 x152</a><br /><a href="http://www.freestylephoto.biz/" target="_blank">www.freestylephoto.biz</a> </p>

<p>Dave, thanks, never heard the term 'lightjet' so i did a search ... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightJet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightJet</a> .... and of course this cool idea is out of production, i guess its cost was just too much.. but i do see the labs that still have them in use.. thanks for the alternative.. but heck, i like to diy, of course, satisfying the creative urge.... but have almost completely given up film for a memory card from the great convenience, but the for the few 'good ones' i do prefer silver prints.. dang, just wish there was a good cross technology darkroom product avail for the home, guess not..</p>

<p>everyone, please explain what you mean by the 'resolution'..? pixels showing? what?... when i see a projected LARGE image from a projector it looks fine, why would it not result in a decent 16x20? when it looks good wall size..?</p>

<p> there is no 'ink jet' print that can compare with a silver gelatin b/w print and never will be... i'm not a rich man and can't afford this--><a href="http://de-vere.com/products.htm">http://de-vere.com/products.htm</a> .... looking for alternatives.... digital negative processing is simple with software, much more so than dodging and burning ever was . . . why the photo community hasn't embraced a cross between the old and new technologies, taking the best of both, and made the best of both possible i dont understand other than to say the corporate has had their influence too much so for the artist to see such a happening take place.... side by side in a gallery the 'ink jet' to me looks like a piece of @%^$ when hung beside a quality darkroom made product... the digital camera is a blessing but the counterpart inkjet print is not, and that is my humble opinion.yours will probably be different, i'm sure</p>

<p>steve, you mean the lens will be soft or there will be pixel problems?</p>

<p>anyone ever retro a cheap digital projector into a digital Enlarger for their darkroom?... looking for equipt used and the results obtained....</p>

<p>I have 10 rolls of fujicolor 800 superia -(press, i think) thats about 3 years out of date...i was shooting it in a Diana+ so the exposures are sorta subjective , around 1/60 at an f? but i was in bright daylight so i thought if anything i was over exposing ..man the negs were thin or completely empty..my Q.....does out of date film get faster or slower in iso?...i thought it got faster? but it seems like no with this experiment..</p>

<p>also...is there any home kits to develop c-41 that are not 1/4degree tempeature tolerances tight? ...anything is acceptable, these are 'artsy' and open to deviances in shifts are quite acceptable...just decent exposures wanted..<br>

develop. suggestions welcome<br />and iso starting points suggestions too for the out of date film...</p>

Thank you Chris, Glen, James, and Harry for the responses. The color balance was off, blue was way too green and calumet had no more in stock so they are mailing me a return shipping label and refunding the total purchase price. oh well, so much for saving a couple hundred on a 30D... called canon also and they say there is no 'factory' warranty on a refurb and i didnt want to register the mack warranty and send it to them, never dealt with their repair service and didnt want to start off with a new purchase by sending it to be repaired!

getting a refurb 30D w/3year warranty from calumet ( good deal it seems at

769.99) http://www.calumetphoto.com/item/EC2730RK/ whats the best way to test

the camera out, shoot a grey card and look for dead pixels? and dust?