1 Nov
2009
1 Nov
'09
8:58 a.m.
At 8:49 PM +0000 10/29/09, Tony Duell wrote:
The biggest advantage to your old mechanical Leica's is that your
50mm Leica lens is a 50mm. On the Micro 4/3rds it would basically be
a 100mm telephoto. I'd like a Leica and am torn between the M6 or M7
as I like a built in light meter on my 35mm cameras.
At 5:17 PM +0100 11/1/09, Jochen Kunz wrote:
I didn't, the minilab did :-)
I took them with an ancient 35mm SLR. The minilab who processed the films
offered to put them on CD-ROM for a little (very little) extra money. And
Here in the US, Costco does a great job in 1 hour and the CD's are
far less than it would cost me in time to the scans myself.
The resolution on the film negatives is considerably
higher than said
scans, but IMHO they were good enough to upload. And of course I have the
negatives if I want to make any larger prints.
Look around, different places scan at different resolutions and
charge different prices. The place I had develop a roll of B&W and
scan them provided scans that were to low-res to even use online.
Costco's scans on the other hand can be used for 8x10 enlargements
(I've done this with great results).
I'm now developing my own 35mm B&W film and scanning it, as I haven't
been happy with the results from the local pro labs. I'm still
having them do the 120 and 4x5 since I can't scan those. They seem
to do best with 4x5 oddly enough.
I'm buying
a Panasonic Micro-Four-Thirds camera body - I can put Leica
lenses on it!
I'll stick to my good old mechnaical Leicas. The later one actually
contains electrical components (the flash sync contacts), the older one
has nothing electrical _at all_. First I thought you had used a scanning back for your
4x5 view camera.
BTW: I am looking for a single shoot scanning back for my 4x5 view
camera. Complete with a PowerBook to be portable. That would be a
perfect excuse to get me into classic MacOS. ;-)
I'd rather have one of these for my Hasselblad 500CM than my 4x5.
Someone locally was offering one recently that could be used on a
Hasselblad or 4x5 for $600, I was definitely tempted, but it was
tethered to an ancient PowerBook, AND it was only 6MP.
Zane
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