The old saying "There's no substitute for cubic inches!" comes to mind... of
course one 4x5 frame has more film area than a 12-exposure roll of 35mm
frames... but I suspect the OM's will still be perferred for moving
subjects. I only used a 4x5 once, but the print is astounding, entirely
grainless, a still-life of a pear that looks good enough to eat... I didn't
get to try color, I can just imagine what those look like. For scanning,
you'll need something like the Epson 2450, then its just practice, practice,
practice. I find Vuescan software works better with my scanner (Umax 1220S)
than the manufacturer's software does. You could always take your 4x5's in
for a drum scan... nothing like 8000dpi on a 4x5 image <g>. One file per
CD...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
on 11/2/02 7:10 PM, M. Lloyd at royer007@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Well after saying I would jump into LF and finally
> taking the plunge with a Linhof Kardan Super Color ST
> view camera I have finally gotten the first couple of
> sheets back from the developer... My jaw dropped to
> the ground when I saw the chromes I have gotten out of
> this camera. I mean the couple of Polaroids I had
> taken last week had been incredible in themselves,
> ultra sharp with nary a hint of grain but the
> slides... I feel like dancing.
>
> All this with an old 1960's era Schneider Xenar 150mm
> lens.
>
> Too bad the scan fairy still has me on her blacklist
> or I'd throw them up on the web. How in the world do
> you guys put up such good scans without them costing a
> fortune for someone else to do it (I tried the cheap
> Kodak Photo CD and that was amazingly even worse than
> when I try to do it luckily they had a satisfaction
> guarantee...) or looking like total crap? I try to
> scan and it seems the scanners all know me so the
> images all come out wierdly tinted or with such
> horrible artifacts and dust I can hardly bear to look
> at the mangled digital clone of my images.
>
> I still love my OM system perhaps more than ever for
> it's small size and weight, but I am going to have to
> prioritize now what shots to take with the OM since
> frankly I think almost any eqivalent 4x5 will beat any
> 35mm by an enormous margin but unfortunatly 4x5 isn't
> exactly a whip it out and shoot some pics off kinda
> thing.
>
> Mark Lloyd
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