Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W with no darkroom
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:41:11 -0800
References: <B686218D.26%abridge@idea-processing.com>

Find a rental darkroom, one that doesn't charge for the wash time.

Slobodan 


Adam Bridge wrote:
> 
> I'd like to explore B&W with my Leica but I have no dark room and, I have to
> admit, really no interest in having one.
> 
> What's the alternative? I guess I could process my own film, that doesn't
> really take a darkroom does it and then scan the negatives into photoshop.
> 
> Can I reliably send out B&W to a lab?
> 
> What sort of film scanner should I be looking for given that I'm a novice. I
> have a Mac G4/450/MP that is my video editing system so I have tons of
> horsepower and about 200 GB of disk along with lots of archival storage, the
> least of which is CD-RW. So storing and managing images isn't an issue.
> 
> I'd love recommendations about how to procede. I'd like to become good
> enough to make a quality B&W image.
> 
> I plan on doing most of my color work with a digital camera at this point.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Adam Bridge

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