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Subject: [Leica] IMG: 280 megapixels
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:52:41 +0530
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I have always wanted to try out the "Texas Leica"!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> In a recent fit of madness, I acquired a Fuji rangefinder which produces
> 6x9 images on that archaic medium known as film. I just received my test
> rolls from the lab, which proved to me that the camera functions correctly.
> When I scan those huge negatives on my Epson 700 at its maximum resolution,
> the result is a file of about 280 megapixels. But it is not sharpness or
> details that keeps film interesting; rather, it is the fine gradation of 
> the
> tones:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Sometimes-I-use-film/7590141_XFqsu#1159932454_x9hbc-O-LB
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> More to come. I am right now shooting a roll of Ilford SFX with a red
> filter. In our sunny climate, it should give good results. Photographty is 
> a
> big tent, and I enjoy visiting different areas of that tent.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> YNWA
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