Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-31 Thread P. J. Alling
I think their scanner is especially crappy.  I used to get better results with Kodak 800 color print film scanned with my Scanwit 2720s at 9mp from 35mm film with pretty much any coke bottle bottom I mounted on a Pentax camera.  With a good lens much much better, I could easily get excellent 8

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
een around > for awhile then. > > > -Original Message- > >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" > >Subject: Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades > > > >Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality was outstanding. > >Mostly, howeve

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Paul Sorenson
Pentax back in 1969 and they had been around for awhile then. -Original Message- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" Subject: Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality was outstanding. Mostly, however, I made contacts an

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Ken Waller
I got my first SLR, an Asahi Pentax back in 1969 and they had been around for awhile then. -Original Message- >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" >Subject: Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades > >Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality wa

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread John Sessoms
I've found the larger the format the more deliberate the process of image creation needs to be. On 7/18/2018 21:15, Larry Colen wrote: Last year I was given a Pentax 67, it took me until a couple weeks ago to finish the first roll of Porta 400.  Unfortunately, when Bay scanned it, they scanned

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Darren Addy
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Darren Addy wrote: > Frankly, Larry, your choice of subject, focal distance, AND display would > not show any of these advantages, even with the lens I mentioned. Re-reading this, I sound less friendly than I intended so I apologize. I guess that related to what

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality was outstanding. Mostly, however, I made contacts and then had enlargement printed. I had only 2 lenses for it, both primes. Did you really mean to say you had been using DSLR cameras for 45 years? I didn't think they have been around tha

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Darren Addy
You have to mean 2000 dpi. 200 dpi only gives you 450 x 550 on a 2-1/4 x 2-3/4 negative. I think people forget the original “purpose” or reason for larger format (film) a) it requires less enlargement for the same sized print (magnifying fewer of the physical film limitations, like grain) - so is

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-19 Thread Steve Cottrell
Oh crickey you've reminded me that I still haven't tested out the gizmo that Mark Roberts loaned me to try before I buy !! I suppose the good news is that because we are moving house (slowly!) I will be able to find all my negs in the attic so that I can then put the hardware together, source th

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Larry Colen
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote on 7/18/18 8:31 PM: ?? 200 dpi ?? A 200 dpi scan of a 6x7 negative is barely a 0.2 Mpixel output file. You're right, I slipped a decimal place, a common hazard with slipsticks. A typical good scan of a 6x7 negative in a proper film scanner should be at between 240

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
?? 200 dpi ?? A 200 dpi scan of a 6x7 negative is barely a 0.2 Mpixel output file. A typical good scan of a 6x7 negative in a proper film scanner should be at between 2400 and 4000 ppi, netting approximately 5480x6330 pixels (35Mpixel) to 9130x10550 pixels (96 MPixel) resolution. "...the co

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
Just using the camera is a great experience. Enjoy! Paul > On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:02 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: > > Interesting. The price was right, I'm borrowing it from my next door neighbor. > >> On July 18, 2018 7:24:38 PM PDT, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> A clunker. The primes are largely e

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread lrc
Interesting. The price was right, I'm borrowing it from my next door neighbor. On July 18, 2018 7:24:38 PM PDT, Paul Stenquist wrote: >A clunker. The primes are largely excellent. > >Paul > >> On Jul 18, 2018, at 10:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> >> >> Paul Stenquist wrote on 7/18/18 6:58 PM

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
A clunker. The primes are largely excellent. Paul > On Jul 18, 2018, at 10:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > > Paul Stenquist wrote on 7/18/18 6:58 PM: >> What lens was mounted? With the better 6x7 lenses image quality is superb. > > 55-100 f.4.5 > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.c

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Larry Colen
Paul Stenquist wrote on 7/18/18 6:58 PM: What lens was mounted? With the better 6x7 lenses image quality is superb. 55-100 f.4.5 -- Larry Colen       l...@red4est.com  http://red4est.com/lrc https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ -- PDML Pentax-Dis

Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
What lens was mounted? With the better 6x7 lenses image quality is superb. Paul > On Jul 18, 2018, at 9:15 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Last year I was given a Pentax 67, it took me until a couple weeks ago to > finish the first roll of Porta 400. Unfortunately, when Bay scanned it, they > sc