[photo-3d] Frontiersman

["Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In view of some recent discussion about making prints from slides and
> from realist negs, I wanted to pass on some thoughts about some new
> technology I played with last week.  I'll be taking over the photo lab
> in a new store in March, and I'll have the Fuji Frontier 370 digital
> printer. This thing is wonderful.  It scans your negatives and slides and
>prints them in another unit with a digital laser on Fuji Crystal Archive
> paper.

I heartily agree that this system makes outstanding prints from slides.  I
displayed a set of cards at Mesa that I created by having full frame 35mm
slides scanned on the 370, editing the files into monolithic prints on my PC
and having the resulting files printed on the 370.  I no longer am shooting
much print film because I know I can easily get great prints made from my
slides, and get nice sharp scans to edit at the same time.

> But - there's also the digital side of this thing.  It has a full CD and
> disk capability as well.

The 370 does wonderful prints from digital files.  Absolutely no
pixelization visible.   If anyone ever creates a slide tray that will let
the 370 scan Realist format slides (or how about View-Master reels?) this
will truly be the dream machine for anyone wanting to make stereo prints.
(Not counting those of you with your own darkrooms.)   Jim Harp