A few classic computer photos

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:49 PM +0000 10/29/09, Tony Duell 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_.

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:
>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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