some six by seven shots
I picked up my first color prints that I shot with my new pentax 67 from my local fuji-color shop yesterday. (120 film is sent out somewhere else) Blazing across the envelope that the prints were in it said FUJICOLOR DIGITAL PRINT. I thought they looked a little funny, not like 160NC portra at all.
damn.
So these are rough scans of digital prints (cropped by the printer-machine). The film scanned was 160 NC Portra. The acutal prints were extremely sharp. I will probably put somescans of black and white prints (that I need to get to anyway) up next week or so.
lookin’ good. I like ‘671′ and ‘672dog’. Even at this size, I can see the increased resolving power of the larger negative.
Comment by mark.a — 5/27/2005 @ 1:47 pm
OMFG..im scared to see you back in lincoln this summer john. After seeing the hair in your mirror portrait, i automatically thought of my old man. I wonder, its odd i think of so many people that remind me of my father. Remember Taichiro? He reminded me of my father when i saw him smoking a cig on day. Just the whole attitude and such.
um..later.
Comment by whiteboyryan — 5/27/2005 @ 3:42 pm
the lens (55mm f4) has mad resolving power. The prints look so good- I really can’t wait to print out some black and white ones. I looked at the negs and the prints togeter- The prints are consistant with the 6×7 ratio, but they cropped in about a milimeter or 3 all the way around. This should’nt bother normal people but I really get picky about the edges of my framing. If you ever get a chance, compare an early “The Americans” with the currently avalible edition. The earlier ones were cropped ever so slightly, and when you see them side by side, they really are different pictures. The dog picture negative has a little more of the important white triangle in the bottom left side than you can see in the version that I posted above. I wonder how easy it is to find a 6×7 negative scanner…
Comment by john — 5/27/2005 @ 6:38 pm
I hate it when you don’t have any control over the edges. Maybe thats the reason they make most SLRs with a less than 100% viewfinder because it’ll get cutoff anyways. Once when I was ordering an enlargement from a 35mm color neg, my local color shop showed me a transparency they had that showed how each enlargement size would crop the image. Ofcourse the bigger it gets the more it gets cropped. Funny though, when I asked them if they could crop a digital file that I took that had the framing way off they said they couldn’t do it. But for color negs they can move the printable area left to right but not up and down. My local shop has a deal that with a coupon they would scan and make a photo CD of your prints, but they do such a bad low res job that its probably better to scan the prints on a flatbed scanner. I don’t know exactly how big a 6×7 neg is but if its about the same size as a hagaki or postcard print then that new scanner from epson (f-3200) might work. Only catch is it says that it can’t scan monochrome negs. I guess scanning actualy prints on a flatbed scanner might be the way to go for monochrome. Anyways I always enjoy your photos and insightful posts. keep it up! Who knows although we’ve never met I might actually run into you, cuz there aren’t too many tall gaijins standing in front of those big orange mirrors holding a huge camera.
Comment by Paul — 5/27/2005 @ 11:22 pm
I was just checking out this new site I found today. Some guy with an RD-1 and a bunch of leica lenses that anyone would give an arm and leg for. The name of the site is KS Portraite on the web? the following link shows an image of Mt.Fuji made by a Pentax 67 and scanned with the epson f-3200
http://www.shingai.com/r-d1/file/index10.html
Hope this info helps.
Comment by Paul — 5/27/2005 @ 11:38 pm
awesome.
I like the photo with a boy.
color… hummm good job good job.
Comment by sleepy girl — 5/30/2005 @ 2:46 pm