Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I go though all my work from A to Z I am doing much scanning and I have a crate on my right here marked "Darkroom" but not for rental lab where I used to do my color. My ubiquitous Epson 1200 has been doing that job so far incredibly well - my mind might change. So many images which were just to flat to like; a tad underexposure due to bringing them to the wrong lab or the damn flat "wedding film" which would be left over and in my fridge and I'd try to use for something else like a portrait or model portfolio and it just didn't cut it. No snap. Even with the "Ultra." paper option, paper from Kodak with a higher contrast from a color neg. But negative or positive aside an image I just finished making yesterday from a Kodachrome slide is standing out above the others. Just small print 5x mag. on a letter sized scan though. But I'm showing it to people. Friends, Romans, Art Directors! I used much Kodachrome before it went professional; before you got it from the Fridge. You bought a brick and shot a roll and it went from red to green so if it was red you could wait for it to neutralize over the weeks if it was green they would let you bring it back and try another brick. (I could have this switched) The only difference we could tell was that the color was right on the Pro and that it was cold. No increase in D-max or grain advantages.Just an added buck or two per roll for the cold stuff! And that stuff was all shot with 60's vintage Nikon optics which is all I could afford those days. (the 80's) Got some stunning results though. And those pictures just wont go away. And if they have I'm bringing them back from the dead with this scanner/printer setup I've got now. Many of these images never were able to be reailized properly; now they are! Some were screwed up by art directors; I've fixed that too. I've gone Leica seven years ago but the vast majority of images in my "book" is still from my "Nikon" formative years! I still have all that gear in a large plastic tub. Would not sell that gear for pennies to some up and coming creep who would not appreciate it! Mark Rabiner