jay_briggs

<p>can someone who has hands on experience or is familiar with eos 5d mark II and nikon d300s let me know what you think. I have done a lot of research but would like to hear from you thanks, jay</p>

<p>Matthew, Wow, those videos from Gimp are terrific. Thank you so much.<br>

Also, have seen or purchased the books on gimp?<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Robert, That is a beautiful series of photos you shot. Thanks for telling me about your scanning method, it my be the thing for me. However, at this time I am pondering about just the digital camera. I have looked at some images I made and was not happy with them. I don't think it's the lens but my eyes. I find it difficult to focus in low to dark light situations. This is a bad thing for me, I love my lenses and shooting b/w.<br>

Best wishes,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>No, Last night I posted "it's me again". I forget what forum it was. By the way, why couldn't i open the administrators post?</p>

<p>i posted question this morning and i can't find it .did i violate photo.net's rules. if so i am very sorry.<br>

Jay Briggs</p>

<p>Kerry, You make a lot of sense. I asked myself how much sense it made to go through all the wet steps and still have to scan my negs to get on the web. But all the other photographers made good sense for just "doing what I wanted" and having fun.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Ariel, I have heard often that film brings a palpable quality to pictures. I wonder if that is only for printing and not evident after digital scanning? I appreciate your taking the time to send my your thoughts.<br>

Best regards<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Simon, Thank you for cluing me into the dust problem. Now back to my research.<br>

Thank you for your reply,<br>

Jay </p>

<p>Matthew, Sorry about referring to you as "ja", I don't know where my head was. Anyway, thanks for the Gimp idea, now I just have to figure it out<br>

Best wishes,<br>

Jay</p>

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<p>Jay, Thanks for the Gimp idea, I just downloaded it and it looks like it can do anything! I am impressed and eager to tackle it but I must admit it looks a bit forboding.<br>

Best regards<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Thanks to all you guy's who chimed in with some recommendations. I really appreciate your taking the time to help me with my issue. This is a great site and I know I will learn much about my new hobby here.<br>

Best to all,<br>

Jay</p>

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<p>JDM, Can you recommend a good editing software program? Something more than a basic "crop and fix the red eye"? I saw a beautiful as for Silver fx Pro for B/W. Would that work or would I need to go to photo shop? Thank you for replying.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Richard, I like your idea. I have a scanner in a box that I haven't opened. It didn't cost much so I'll keep it to put images on the net.<br>

I do have enough room for an enlarger and could set up a darkroom with a little ingenuity. Thanks for the recommendation on the Bessler. I think that's the model I had as a kid. I have been thinking about taking a film course at a local JC. <br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

 

<p>Craig, I sent a reply but it disappeared. Thanks for your ideas. I am going to get going on Processing in my bathroom and opening the scanner that's been sitting in my living room and give it a try.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

 

<p>Craig, Thanks for your idea. I came to me a while ago when I found myself spend lot's of money and waiting for weeks to get back my neg's and film and a CD, that I could develop me own neg's in my bathroom and then scan them. As I mentioned I have a scanner from "Crutchfield" in a box in my front room. This at least half way fulfills my desire. I am going to shoot some b/w tomorrow and see about getting the items I need to process film.</p>

<p>Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Mark, Are you a musician in addition to being a photographer?<br>

Thank you for the comment.<br>

Best always,<br>

Jay</p>

 

<p>James, You are right. I'll use my camera, and have some fun getting back into the swing of it combining both methods. Thank for your comment.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Pierre, Your beautiful picture proves the point; before there was digital, photographers were making eye-stopping photos. Thanks for taking the time to comment.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Don, Well I won't argue there, Pictures are to be seen, no fun in not having someone else hopefully enjoy your creative image, and you are right, there's no way about skipping the digital process to preform this I guess.<br>

Wow, you fellows have gotten me out of my "woe is me" early morning session of the blues about feeling trapped between two era's.<br>

Today I will take the scanner out of the box and "burn" a few digital images. But I do hear that some photographers feel there is more "life" to prints from film while digital seems flat and soul-less. To each his own I guess.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

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<p>Keith, the use of black and white reigns and I after saw Vivan Maier's work here on Photo.net and reading her story really inspired me. But as it says her film was scanned and printed by someone else. None the less it's magical. Her composition stuns me. She was brilliant. Her life was lonely but her work was fascinating. <br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Wouter, That's what I am looking for. A little encouragement. I got worried about being an "old timer" stuck in the memories of the past. Trying to relive those "dark room days" smelling stop bath and fixing prints; negatives hanging every where, looking for the proper film stock, cranking the enlarger to the right height, using bulk film to load canisters.Great memories.<br>

The computer is terrific, I spend too much time on it and who knows maybe I will end up trying digital.The auto focus is a great feature that let you catch a shot quicker than using the Fresnel glass in low light. But it's all lovely and for me it started with a Brownie Hawkeye and a Kodak Developer Kit.<br>

Best regards,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Thanks, Matthew, I guess I was just looking for some direction Jay</p>

<p>Sorry, I forgot to put in my question. What do you think about scanning film after developing it and still have to end up on the computer. I guess I answered my own question in a way, since I can't do the old school method and only develop film I should get a digital camera. I wrote the above scrawl to see what other photographers might think about my situation. I hope I didn't break any rules of the site. </p>

<p>I bought a Nikon film camera with dreams of processing in a darkroom. Then I found out everything's digital. so, i thought of a work around. Develop my film in my bathroom (fun) : buy a scanner to put the pictures on the computer since I have no space for an enlarger.<br>

someone said "why go through all the trouble and just buy a digital camera and use something like "silver fx".I can use the lenses I purchased with the film camera, so I'm not out money spent.<br>

it's too bad because I did a lot of research on the film camera (F3) and love b/w processing. ( One grip is the speed light ,too bulky.) any way I hope this topic isn't beating a dead horse....I did look around for similar questions.<br>

Thank you,<br>

Jay</p>

<p>Thank you, John for your overview on the subject...I think I will research further. Best regards,Jay</p>