[rollei_list] Re: On-topic again: Figital, but with a Rollei TLR !
- From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:08:00 +0200
Jim Brick a écrit :
I guess folks around here are lucky in that our local photo shop (KSP)
will process and archive 135, APS, 120, & 200 film.
Add myself as another happy user of Figital.
I am lucky enough to have handy a local store equipped with a Fuji
Frontier machine, processing C-41 color negs in 120 and scanning slides
& negs up to the 6x7 format; The machine can scan up to the 6x8 format,
but so few people use this format that it's hard to find a Fuji Frontier
going up to 6x8.
The owner is a true photographer (he will retire in a few years) who
does commercial photography (weddings & industry) and he still works in
120-color-negs. So he invested in the Fuji machine both for himself for
his commercial work and for his ordinary
clients-doing-4x6-prints-for-their-family-album. The machine is almost
amortized for him, he had a good turnover when he decided to invest in
the machine, so he continues with the wet C-41 process and RA-4 until he
retires.
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About my use of Figital :
Any time I go to one of our French Medium-Large format meetings, I
document the event with my Rollei TLR with a hand-held flash, on 400 ISO
color neg. The local Fuji Frontier machine does the rest.
The best of both worlds, I have my images "materialized" on a negative,
plus some low-res scans to share with friends. Doing so, I do not really
care for the life expectancy of the CD. The CD acts as a digital source
for contact prints. Once the images have been copied on a hard disk,
shared or posted to some Internet web sites, the CD (and even the hard
disk) can self-erase if it wishes to do so, I have the negs.
In case I realize that one of the images deserves the best, it is so
easy to have it re-scanned with a better quality.
Or traditionnally printed through an enlarger, but for this I have to do
it by mail order to another specialised lab, "last-of-the-Mohicans",
who still does RA-4 and Ciba prints through an enlarger.
As an example of such images, see here the last images I have uploaded
on our rollei flick group. It is a meeting in Vienne, France on March
22, 2009. Taken with a 3,5F, ISO 400 Kodak color neg, low-res scan
suitable for a 6"x6" print or so.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43175600@N00/
I apologize for some private jokes added on the images, it is really
difficult to translate ;-)
And to put it bluntly : those low-res scans are not better that a direct
image-capture-on-silicon, but it's more fun to do it with the rollei, of
course.
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E.B.
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