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Jan 14, 2019 10:56:32   #
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Scanner
kayakman1950 wrote:
The timing of your question is great. I purchased an Epson V600 and am not happy with it. The slides are not sharp like the original. The scanned 35 mm negatives are even worse in clarity. Does anyone have this experience with it? I’m thinking of using a professional photo lab unless someone can recommend a better scanner.
What labs are best for quality scanning?


Although I have the V750 I believe your V600 should give very good results. I feel there must be something that you are doing wrong, or possibly a fault with your particular scanner. burkphoto and bspraque suggests that your negs/slides might be upside down but I would not think that would be much of a problem has I have scanned both ways and found it very difficult to see any difference in sharpness. Of course the film should be as flat as possible but I've never found it necessary to sandwich between glass.
I do hope you resolve the problem.
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Jan 14, 2019 06:10:25   #
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Scanner
Get an Epson as suggested above. I have an earlier model V750 but very pleased with it.
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Jan 11, 2019 10:29:26   #
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Pinhole
tommy2 wrote:
Experimented several times after getting a photo developing kit for Christmas when I was young and my mother wouldn't let me out of her sight when using her old Kodak. She said the paper bellows was very fragile.
An erector set was under the tree at the same time that didn't make as big of a mess as did all the liquid filled trays in the darkened bathroom.
The erector set won out as my favorite - spent hours building and tearing apart structures. Kinda set me up for my life's work.
Designed and built large structures (bridges) from in the fifties thru the seventies. Many are now being torn down and replaced with larger designs able to accommodate the ever increasing number of vehicles.
Guess I'm the only guy who likes to get caught up in slowed traffic being routed around and thru highway construction zones - the longer the better. Sometimes wish I could be out there watching one of my designs being built.
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The problem of course is enlarging from the D300 image size. Even a full frame DSLR wouldn't make a lot of difference when compared to using paper negs in a largish box and printing as a contact. I have always used model makers drills to make the hole (usually in tin foil from food packaging, use to use milk bottle tops). A drill makes a cleaner hole (giving a sharper image) than a pin.
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Jan 11, 2019 05:28:18   #
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Pinhole
Did a bit in the 1970's & 80's. All with photo paper negs. Also did a few using Cibachrome, difficult though to get the colour balance right. More recently made a pinhole lens for my Nikon D300 but have not really done a lot with it.
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Dec 28, 2018 06:47:01   #
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Epson V850 vs V600
I have the V750, the predecessor to the improved (I would think) V850, and have always been very pleased with the excellent results it gives. The only criticism of the V750 would be that the negative/transparency holders are a bit on the flimsy side, worth checking to see if they might have been improved on the V850. I can't however help with a comparison with the V600.
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Dec 5, 2018 07:13:39   #
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kodachrome and kodacolor 35mm film processing
No good if your looking for the quality of Kodachrome, but maybe of interest if you have some undeveloped rolls.

https://www.lomography.com/magazine/255669-processing-a-kodachrome-64-in-b-and-w
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Nov 20, 2018 06:55:36   #
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Compatible ink for canon pro 100
Although I am not familiar with the Canon Pro 100, even if clogging isn't an issue I would certainly be cautious using cheaper inks in your machine. Although it was a few years back now I did some tests on a about 10 printers owned by members of a photographic group I ran all using cheap inks . The major problem was that of fading. Exposing samples to sunlight over a couple of months I found that to a greater or lesser degree none kept their original color saturation as well as samples printed on my printer, using Epson inks. Things could of course could have improved over the last few years but it is something worth considering before you decide on cheaper inks. I have 2 printers, an Epson Photo R3000 which I use only with Epson inks and a cheap A4 printer using compatible 3rd party inks on which I do unimportant and office work.
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Sep 30, 2018 07:28:05   #
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Trip To England Questions
A visit to the West Country, Devon (particularly North Devon, Barnstaple, Saunton Croyd) and Cornwall is very worthwhile but I'm Biased as I now live in Devon. London has changed a lot since I lived there in the 60's but still some interesting areas to photograph. Portobello Road street market could be worth a visit. Hope it goes well and you have a great time.
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Sep 13, 2018 11:39:03   #
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That 2nd Card Slot!!!
HT wrote:
No, they don’t. For example a late model Nikon will have an XQD and an SD card as the second slot.

The SD Card is typically much slower than the XQD, by a lot. One of the problems for those insisting on sending an image to both slots for redundancy however must understand this results in camera performance being tied to the slowest card.

If you wanted a D500 for its fast FPS and 200 frame limit in continuous burst, for example, then your expectations won’t be met because the SD card can’t keep up. Same effect if you put a slower card into either slot for a camera with two SD cards.

I know that’s drifting off topic but I haven’t seen anyone mention it to date...
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Yes I'm afraid it was my fault for drifting off the topic somewhat, but thank you HT and others for your replies to my question. It did seem obvious to me that the speed can only be as fast as the slowest card but as I have never used a camera with two slots have never thought it through before.
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Sep 13, 2018 05:36:39   #
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That 2nd Card Slot!!!
Never having a camera with 2 slots can anyone tell me if the 2nd card has to be the same speed (and capacity) as the first card?
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Aug 27, 2018 06:55:33   #
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Beasties in 40D Camera
No, nothing new. Several years back I worked as a photographic technician for a university. We had 15 Pentax K1000's (SLR's). 2 of which several tiny bugs could be seen through the viewfinder. A little disconcerting for the students but did not cause a problem in the resulting image.
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Aug 26, 2018 12:46:41   #
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Very Dirty Sensor?
It would be interesting to know how so much dust arrived on your sensor. I have been using interchangeable lens digital cameras for more than 15 years now and only once got a speck of dust on the sensor cured by a couple of burst from a large Giotto blower used with the camera facing downwards. I do however keep my lens changing times to the very minimum and am as careful as possible not to do so in dusty areas.
Outside a pub last evening I saw a photographer using a blower for about half a minute on each of is 2 cameras, when I'm pretty sure he would not have had dust on the sensor, but was just doing it as a matter of course. If he had no dust before using the blower I wouldn't be surprised if he did after.
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Aug 21, 2018 11:51:05   #
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Buy or Fix PLEASE!
I have not read all the replies, but has anyone suggested that your house and contents insurance might cover most of the cost? In this country (UK) it sometimes does.
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Aug 15, 2018 05:28:35   #
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Light sensitivity of glass plates?
I did a Photography Course at Guildford School of Art (UK) 1958 to 61. We used glass quarter plates (3 1/4in x 4 1/4in in Gandolfi Cameras). As far as I can remember they were about 100 ASA (now ISO), but were also used either side of this sensitivity by adjusting the development time depending on the contrast of the subject matter, something difficult to do with roll film or 35mm.
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Jul 14, 2018 06:39:10   #
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Printing Images
I now always use a fine lustre paper. In my early film days I used quite a bit of matt but this would need a suitable subject as it tends to give a more limited range of tones and not good blacks Generally gloss papers will give a better black and overall quality, but the reflective surface can be distracting.
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