Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread rafeb
At 08:28 AM 6/19/01 -0400, Dan Honemann wrote: >Okay, I think I've hit on the image quality I'm looking for, but I don't >have the words to express it--so maybe someone here can help. >In any event, I'm struggling to find an affordable way to get prints that >look like _that_, the way my slide

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 6/19/01 5:30 PM, rafeb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bottom line is, there's only so far you can go (in terms > of enlargement) with 35 mm film. Sure, you can blow it > up to almost any size you want, but the same image on > a larger slide/negative will always yield a better print. > > Which

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Richard
> Okay, I think I've hit on the image quality I'm looking for, but I don't > have the words to express it--so maybe someone here can help. > > Do you know the different look between something shot on film vs. videotape? Hi Dan I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in t

RE: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Austin Franklin
> > Bottom line is, there's only so far you can go (in terms > > of enlargement) with 35 mm film. Sure, you can blow it > > up to almost any size you want, but the same image on > > a larger slide/negative will always yield a better print. > > > > Which is why I'm now screwing around with 645 cam

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread rafeb
[rafe b:] >> Bottom line is, there's only so far you can go (in terms >> of enlargement) with 35 mm film. Sure, you can blow it >> up to almost any size you want, but the same image on >> a larger slide/negative will always yield a better print. >> >> Which is why I'm now screwing around with 6

RE: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Dan Honemann
> This quality you're looking for comes from perfect practice > in every step of the image-taking and image-making process. > > It involves far more than "the perfect film scanner." Understood. But perfect practice in every step of the process means eliminating any potential weak links in the ch

RE: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Dan Honemann
> I am now on a 4x5 and starting to think, hm, 8x10 would be nice. I once met a woman about my age (40) who has shot with only one camera since high school (and she's been a professional photographer since then): an old Wista 8x10 with a single lens. That's it. She only shoots b&w film and alwa

RE: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-19 Thread Dan Honemann
> I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK > some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then > found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case? It's funny, that. The games themselves are shot on videotape, but the shows that highl

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 6/19/01 11:56 PM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK >> some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then >> found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case? > > It's funny, that.

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Arthur Entlich
I too was (and still am) fairly sure when I saw/see video versus film. I note even today that some TV shows use video while on the set, but will switch to film for outdoor shooting, and sometimes vice versa. The way I'd define this difference is in a number of ways. The obvious one is that fi

RE: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread rafeb
At 11:50 PM 6/19/01 -0400, Dan wrote: >> I am now on a 4x5 and starting to think, hm, 8x10 would be nice. > >I once met a woman about my age (40) who has shot with only one camera since >high school (and she's been a professional photographer since then): an old >Wista 8x10 with a single lens. Th

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread B.Rumary
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard wrote: > I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK > some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then > found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case? > TV series used to be shot on 35mm cine film, w

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Isaac Crawford
Johnny Deadman wrote: > > on 6/19/01 11:56 PM, Dan Honemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK > >> some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then > >> found out that its shot on film. Is this sti

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Walter Bushell
Yes, and we use the Never Twice the Same Color system also. -- walter That's the moon a long time ago we used to go there. On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, B.Rumary wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard wrote: > > > I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK > > some tim

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-20 Thread Arthur Entlich
rafeb wrote: > At 11:50 PM 6/19/01 -0400, Dan wrote: > >>> I am now on a 4x5 and starting to think, hm, 8x10 would be nice. >> >> I once met a woman about my age (40) who has shot with only one camera since >> high school (and she's been a professional photographer since then): an old >> Wist

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-22 Thread Lynn Allen
ish!" Andreas Feininger said some of his best pictures were taken with a cardboard box camera. It's not so much what you use, IMHO, it's the way that you use it. From there on, it's how you refine what you do. Best regards--LRA

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-22 Thread Lynn Allen
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality? >Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:46:46 +0100 > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard wrote: > > > I seem to remember watching American Football for

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-22 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 6/22/01 5:42 PM, Lynn Allen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tony calls them "rail cameras," I think of them as "view cameras," but we're > talking about the same thing--the big Calumets etc. that do such beautiful > work and were the "standard" for magazine covers, "full-spreads" and art > photo

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-23 Thread Steve Greenbank
- Original Message - From: "Lynn Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality? > What's more likely to happen, is a > jump in technology, maybe a digital s

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-25 Thread Lynn Allen
ynn Allen >From: "Steve Greenbank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality? >Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 08:15:38 +0100 > > >- Original Message - >From: "

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Entlich
Sorry Lynn, you are several months (which in this biz is centuries) out of date. Epson (the printer people) with Cambridge Institute (I believe this is in Boston) have developed a method for using inkjet technology to spray some type of transistors onto substrates, to make a color panel which

Re: filmscanners: what defines this quality?

2001-06-27 Thread Lynn Allen
Art wrote: > >Sorry Lynn, you are several months (which in this biz is centuries) out of >date. > >Epson (the printer people) with Cambridge Institute (I believe this is in >Boston) have developed a method for using inkjet technology to spray some >type of transistors onto substrates, to make a