Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I love the truck...very nice angle! trish ternahan@gentlelens.net > From: "George Kenney" <georgekenney@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:40:45 -0400 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Two more scans (Oh no!) > > I probably wouldn't want to put up more scans if all I had to go on > was the discussion here, but as many of you know there's more > going on than that! In particular I'd like to thank the several hundred > people who took time to look at my Soapstone Valley scan, posted > about ten minutes after the controversial Leica pinhole shot, even > though -- rather surprisingly I thought-- nobody had anything to say > about the latter. > > In case you missed that one, its URL is: > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=344474 > > > The two new scans: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=346741 > > and > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=346720 > > are also a couple older negatives. Film on the truck I developed > myself, film on the baker was done in a lab. These shots were > taken with either the current 75 or current 90 or some combination > thereof. I can't remember. > > What I'm finding, for those of you not yet into scanning, etc., is that > manipulation of the scan can -- even for a beginner -- be much > easier and, more importantly, much more exact with the computer > than with the enlarger. I'm really looking forward to the Piezography > folks getting their aftermarket kit available for my printer (the Epson > 1280), sometime in September/October. According to them the > piezo tonal range is far greater than what can be obtained in a wet > darkroom. I suspect this may be true, but remain to be convinced > until I see the piezo print. > > G. >