Hey John:
The trouble with those places is that the quality of the scan is not that great. When I scan a 35mm slide, the file is 135 megs and 4000 x 6000 dots (about 24 million pixels). I'd want the same quality for a 6x7. To get that I'd have to pay $50 somewhere for each scan. So after paying for scans on 3 rolls of 6x7 film I'd have spent the $1800 anyway. My thought is to sell the 35mm film scanner and buy the 6x7 scanner. If, and that is a very big IF, I were to buy a 6x7 camera.
By the way, here is the next image I'll be posting on TAC. It is of the Pleiades. It is a combination of three photos of 2-hours long each--for a total of 6 hours exposure.
http://www.gatorchaser.net/barcroft2007/M45_images3_7_16_crop_small.jpg
I'll post it on TAC a little later today.
Bill
R Pierce <pierce@No-Spam> wrote:
Gator Chaser wrote:
> Over the last 2 years i've had a lot or former film people try to get
> me to buy their setups. I've been tempted but have yet to give in. A
> girl I know who's father passed away a couple years ago wants to sell
> his 6x7--he never used it once. It is all tempting, but it means I'd
> have to buy a new scanner too. They run about $1800.
yeah. or have the lab scan it when they process the film, and give it
back to you on a CD :)
places like Bay Photo, Calypso Color Labs will do that, using top of the
line dicomed drum scanners that cost a lot more than $1800.
googling around, I found a bunch of pages saying that these old beasts
are the darlings of the NYC model photographers, certain of the lenses
have some of the best 'bokeh' of any medium format.
mine is probably 30 years old, I got it about 20 years ago from a camera
store in Monterey who'd got it from the estate of a fairly well known
west coast photographer Steven Crouch, who used it for aerial photography...
richard crisp has been using pentax 6x7 lenses, 200mm and so forth, with
his CCD for wide field narrow band stuff.
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Received on Sun Jan 20 07:41:06 2008