Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had the same thoughts about a year and a half ago. What I now do is process the black and white film at home then scan it using a Nikon Coolscan III. I use Ed Hamricks Vuescan software ( www.hamrick.com ) to speed up the scanning process. I then burn the pictures to CD - a 36 exposure film fits onto a single CD when saved as compressed Tiffs. I am very pleased with this approach and have used it for the photographs on my web site ( www.aaru50.ukgateway.net ). There's quite a kick from exposing a film and then burning the pictures to CD the same day. So far I've found that the T-grain films (Ilford Delta, Kodak T-Max) scan the best in terms of image quality. Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Adam Bridge Sent: 13 January 2001 23:15 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] B&W with no darkroom 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