Film, Processing, and Scanners

[dmr]

It's good that it's been brought up again, it was good to read through these posts...

I totally missed this thread when it first came out. Bill, thanks for posting this, and thanks to those who bumped it. 🙂

I do have a question, to those who know the workflow on the Fuji Frontier and those machines ... I'm somehow under the impression that they develop and print in one operation. Am I wrong on this? Meaning, they load the film and it doesn't have to be unloaded and reloaded (meaning touched by human hands) for the printing part. I would just assume that the people who design these things wanted to avoid labor intensive steps.

So, so they develop and print in two loadings or in one?

If they do a CD, is this done in the developing load or in the printing load?

The reason I'm asking is that I (still) have a CD made most of the time, just so I have a scan ready for a smaller print or for the web without doing a scan myself.

Thanks. 🙂

 

[RJBender]

This original thread was started over a year ago - not sure why it is back again. But I find that my original advice has still been working out for me, so I'm glad about that.

It was listed under Similar Threads at the bottom of another thread. 😎

R.J.

 

[RJBender]

I totally missed this thread when it first came out. Bill, thanks for posting this, and thanks to those who bumped it. 🙂

I do have a question, to those who know the workflow on the Fuji Frontier and those machines ... I'm somehow under the impression that they develop and print in one operation. Am I wrong on this? Meaning, they load the film and it doesn't have to be unloaded and reloaded (meaning touched by human hands) for the printing part. I would just assume that the people who design these things wanted to avoid labor intensive steps.

So, so they develop and print in two loadings or in one?

If they do a CD, is this done in the developing load or in the printing load?

The reason I'm asking is that I (still) have a CD made most of the time, just so I have a scan ready for a smaller print or for the web without doing a scan myself.

Thanks. 🙂

Denise,

They process the film and hang it on clips before they run it through the printer. If you go to a Sam's Club or Walmart you can see one being used.

I get my film processed and scan at home with a film scanner. I have presets for the rectangular marquee tool ( 8x10 horizontal, 8x10 vertical, 8x12 horizontal, 5x7 etc.) If I crop an image to 8x12 proportions I save it as keiner8x12.TIF, for example. When I see it on the kiosk screen, I know I have the correct file for the 8x12.

There is more info on the Fuji Frontier here:
http://www.edigitalphoto.com/tips_techniques/0301edp_digitalprints/

R.J.

 

[dmr]

They process the film and hang it on clips before they run it through the printer. If you go to a Sam's Club or Walmart you can see one being used.

That was what I was afraid of. 🙁 All depends on technique and hygiene.

Wow, I'm getting more and more picky about things like this the more I critically look at the negatives I'm scanning ...

There is more info on the Fuji Frontier here:
http://www.edigitalphoto.com/tips_techniques/0301edp_digitalprints/

That's very interesting, thanks. It looks like the Frontier does both the equivalent of unsharp mask and ICE. I have to admit that when I do get prints from those, they are usually very good.

The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking I should just try developing the negatives myself. I'm confident enough that I could do it, but the tricky part would be keeping the solutions at the right temperature. Something to consider, I guess.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Yeah. My workflow too.

Except alongside the dev and uncut negs I ask for an index and CD scan to 1800 pixels wide.

 

[Byuphoto]

I am very fortunate in that I have a friend with a lab/studio with a Fuji Frontier and really takes his time. He does a lot of weddings and processes all my studio and wedding work. He will process my 120 color and my 35mm for 2.19 a roll. He also does all my enlargements and will do hi-res scans for me. So I bring the film home, scan, on an Epson 4180, and see what I, the ones I post go from there and the ones I want enlargements he scans and prints

 

[RJBender]

.....That's very interesting, thanks. It looks like the Frontier does both the equivalent of unsharp mask and ICE. I have to admit that when I do get prints from those, they are usually very good.

Shutterbug deleted the edigitalphoto article (see link on previous post). Here's a link to the same article on another site:
http://bermangraphics.com/press/frontier.htm

R.J.