Re: Quiet Again

[Sam Smith <3dhacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Well I've been playing around my Yashicamat 124G trying to get used to
>it and it's light meter.  I haven't decided yet if the meter is
>accurate and I'm just not used to how it works or if it's wildly off.
>I've been using a Penax digital spot meter for the last few years
>(with my 4x5 stuff) and may not be used to dealing with a meter that
>isn't through the lens or narrow angle.  The other thing complicating
>matters is that it's difficult to get mercury batteries, so I started
>with an alkyline battery (which I've since heard throws the meter off
>both because of voltages levels and decay rate) and recently switched
>to one of the S-76 battery adapters.

Just a note regarding   S-76 Batteries. I have an almost unlimited supply up
here in Canada, so if anyone wants one let me know.

Sam
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>I've also been trying to learn how to use a flash.  I've always used
>high speed film and natural light before.  I've been shooting test
>images, but I'm behind on my darkroom work.
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>I have decided that I won't get a second Yashicamat for twinning.
>Dealing with the film crank on my flash bracket is enough of a pain
>(I'm a righty and can not comfortably hold the camera with my left
>hand) that I don't think it's worth the effort.  I have been doing
>some slide bar work with it though.
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>> Where's the Folio these days? Is it coming my way any time soon?
>> Seems 5A has been out there for years.
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>Beats me (I'm not in the folio).
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>With the recent introductions from new members on the list perhaps we
>can discuss starting a second folio.  I had mentioned this a while
>ago, but at the time there weren't enough people to get it started.
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>In the meantime I've shown my stuff at the New York Stereoscopic
>Society and anyone else I can corner.  :)
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>We had a lot of fun showing my stuff to the three year old daughter of
>my friends and having her describe what she saw.  At least it kept her
>out of her mother's hair while she was dealing with their infant son.
>:)
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>> Has anyone used one of these newfangled HP Slide attachments for
>> scanners yet?
>> 
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>I recently got an Artec Scanrom 4e for about $100 mailorder.  It scans
>up to 4x6 originals.  The scanner software only knows how to deal with
>prints and slides (positive orignals), but most image manipulation
>software can deal with B&W negatives, and probably color negatives
>too.  I find that the B&W negatives seem to work best, but I just may
>not have enough patience to deal with color manipulation.  The scanner
>uses a parallel port (with pass through) to connect to a PC.  I don't
>know if there's a Mac version of the software.  The optical resolution
>is 400x400dpi.  It's good enough for web use.  Because the scanner is
>connected to my wife's PC I haven't had much time to rescan most of my
>images and I can't rescan any of the 8x10s.  The one (flat) example I
>currently have on my web page can been seen at:
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><URL:http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/photography/pinhole/greenmarket.html>
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>The bottom of the page has a comparison between a scan of an 8x10
>print using a HP Deskjet 3c and xv for image processing and the 4x5
>negative using the Scanrom and The Gimp software for image processing.
>I did not make much effort to match the images to each other.  I
>simply made the images look the best I could to suit my tastes (which
>have changed a bit since I first started doing these scans).
>
>-- 
>Brian Reynolds                  | "Humans explore the Universe with five
>reynolds@xxxxxxxxx              |   senses and call the adventure science."
>http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/ | - Edwin P. Hubble
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