Thardy
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Will you be enlarging, contact printing or scanning for inkjet output?
First 4x5 neg - wow!
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venchka
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For the time being I'm limited to scanning on a friends scanner. He also has contact printing capabilites. I have a decent printer so I can output to it. Long term plan-enlarger.
David Goldfarb
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Are you getting some unfixed spots there, Wayne, or is that something on the other side of the window? If there are unfixed spots, you might also be getting uneven development, and might need more solution in your developing tank. You can also refix in a tray just to clear those spots.
Finder
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Wayne, you may find hangers and deep tanks easier to develop with.
Leica-Virgin
Retouched for the .......
A useful technique I have found for a quick digital proof of a 5x4 neg when you don't have a scanner that will do a 5x4 film scan:
Put your neg on a light box and take a hi-res black and white shot to fill the frame on a close focusing digital camera. Open the file in any photo editing suite and invert it to get a positive image. Not perfect but adequate for proofing purposes.
Put your neg on a light box and take a hi-res black and white shot to fill the frame on a close focusing digital camera. Open the file in any photo editing suite and invert it to get a positive image. Not perfect but adequate for proofing purposes.
rogue_designer
Reciprocity Failure
Eric T said:
I currently use Polaroid Type55 (buy it now while you can) for all my 4x5 BW shooting. The quality of this particular film is excellent. Detail is great, the speed is slow (I shoot it at about ISO 30) - but that's rarely an issue for the work I'm doing. I throw out the print, and only use the negs - which scan very nicely.
I don't bother with the other polaroid films as a finished product unless I'm specifically doing an image/emulsion transfer or similar. Mostly I just use them to double check lighting and such.
venchka
Veteran
I could do that
I could do that
Alas, I through out my light box when we left New Orleans. Lightroom is my photo editing software and it doesn't do inversions. Woe is me! 😀
"Honey, a real darkroom is the only way I can make photographs from these negatives."
I could do that
Leica-Virgin said:
Alas, I through out my light box when we left New Orleans. Lightroom is my photo editing software and it doesn't do inversions. Woe is me! 😀
"Honey, a real darkroom is the only way I can make photographs from these negatives."
Finder
Veteran
venchka said:
It does not have curves???
venchka
Veteran
I got curves
I got curves
Lightroom has curves. How do I invert the image with curves? Dumb me, I was just looking for an invert switch.
I got curves
Finder said:
Lightroom has curves. How do I invert the image with curves? Dumb me, I was just looking for an invert switch.
David Goldfarb
Well-known
venchka said:
If an uncorrected image has a default curve that is straight line and 45 degrees, you should be able to invert the image with the opposite 45 degree line, mapping black onto white and white onto black. If it looks like this "/" change it to "\". Then you can tweak for the tonality you want.
Finder
Veteran
venchka said:
Just take the ends of the curves and move one end all the way up and the other all the way down so the slope is perpendicular to its original slope.
I guess this means you ain't getting the enlarger?
rogue_designer
Reciprocity Failure
venchka said:
Grab the black point, and pull it all the way up to white, and visa-versa.
(edit.. .d'oh! too slow)
venchka
Veteran
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Don't tell Her!
venchka
Veteran
Lightroom doesn't do it
Lightroom doesn't do it
Just as I thought. The curve line is as you say, "/". However, Adobe anchored both ends. I get the enlarger afterall. 😀 😎
Lightroom doesn't do it
Just as I thought. The curve line is as you say, "/". However, Adobe anchored both ends. I get the enlarger afterall. 😀 😎
ChrisN
Striving
Wayne - well done!
