I have a boatload of film equipment, 4x5, 6x6, 6x4.5 and 35mm and no desire to buy a digital camera. With lot's of Zeiss and Leica glass, starting over would be very painful, make that impossible.
So I bought a film scanner and after a day playing with it, I have the urge to post some off topic pictures.
The AT6 (Luanda, Angola) was shot with a Contax G2 and a 16mm Zeiss Hologon, and teh others were taken with a Contax 645 and teh Zeiss 80mm Planar (Lagos, Nigeria).
I wish that the WBCCI and Air had an active photo club!
In case you were ever curious, people in Nigeria get spam from Nigeria.
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Here is one of Jupitor shot on Kodachrome with a 28mm Leica Elmarit-M and one from my hotel in Luanda, Angola. That photo was taken with a 55 year old Contax IIIa Color Dial and a Zeiss Jena 85/2.0 Sonnar.
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Yes, Walmart can scan and give you photos or digital media made from your slides. If you go with prints then get the digital copies too, they are only a few cents extra and well worth the cost.
I did this and my sister has used them too. I also had all of my Fathers 16mm and 8mm film transfered to a VHS and DVD there. Another great job - the processing center even went the extra step in putting them in time sequence by looking at my age in the films - they almost got them all in the correct order. If you label them they will do just that order.
I do not know who their sub-contract film company is but the service we got was great. Only issue with the film was it was returned on one big reel but can easily be returned to the small reels as they left plenty of length on the splices.
jacarape - what brand of slide scanner did you get and why?
Love the pictures. I've got 2 crates full of pictures and slides taken over the last 25 years. To bad they don't make Kodachrome 64 anymore.
I've heard Wal-Mart can scan slides. Do you know about this?
I have many trays of slides. I use a HP Scanject 4890. It does a great job on slides, documents, negatives, flat scan on printed pictures, very versatile and scanning can be be done in PDF format and many other options. Corpping, color corection, angle adjustments. It was $200 two years ago.
Keep in mind they use high speed scanners (whatever they are) and the results are good. The old portraits did not come out quite so well but the day to day ones w/ the kids and the dog were great.
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On a serious note, I've shot Leica and Hasselblad for years. I sold my last Leicas and Hassys a few years ago, and have gone completely digital. OK, maybe not completely. I still have two Kiev88 CMs and a passel of Russian and East German glass, but that's another story altogether. I love them, BTW.
Jonathan and several others here have a lot more experience than I with digital, but I'll throw in my $.02. I also have an Epson 4490 hybrid flatbed/negative scanner. While it's not the quality of the "real" film scanners, it does a decent job. The biggest problem with scans as shown in this 100% crop (IMHO) is that there tends to be more artifacts than in native digital exposures, and even when the negative (or transparency) is meticulously cleaned, you still have to spend a significant amount of time spotting dust and other imperfections. It is also possible to scan at such a high rate as to emphasize the color layers and film grain.
Of course, scanning is a must for digitizing old exposures, but I've finally become a native digital convert.
Roger
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I have a boatload of film equipment, 4x5, 6x6, 6x4.5 and 35mm and no desire to buy a digital camera. With lot's of Zeiss and Leica glass, starting over would be very painful, make that impossible.
So I bought a film scanner and after a day playing with it, I have the urge to post some off topic pictures.
The AT6 (Luanda, Angola) was shot with a Contax G2 and a 16mm Zeiss Hologon, and teh others were taken with a Contax 645 and teh Zeiss 80mm Planar (Lagos, Nigeria).
I wish that the WBCCI and Air had an active photo club!
In case you were ever curious, people in Nigeria get spam from Nigeria.
Lighting correction on African Girls done in Photoshop ELements 6, approximatley 2 minutes.
Love the pictures. I also use Leica. Had an M6 and bought a MP last year. No desire to go digital and will probably shoot film until you can't buy it any more. You can still buy Kodachrome 64, just look on the B&H website.
Love the pictures. I also use Leica. Had an M6 and bought a MP last year. No desire to go digital and will probably shoot film until you can't buy it any more. You can still buy Kodachrome 64, just look on the B&H website.
I have gone 100% digital. Having used the Nikon F series for years.
Love the pictures. I also use Leica. Had an M6 and bought a MP last year. No desire to go digital and will probably shoot film until you can't buy it any more. You can still buy Kodachrome 64, just look on the B&H website.
I've shot the Leica M for many years, I too currently have an MP. I bought a digital M8 when it was introduced and while it can produce some very nice images, it doesn't quite get the feeling of Kodachrome shot on Leica glass.
Give me a projected Kodachrome and I'm a happy camper.
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