New York NYC July Meet-Up

And I was ready to go. Had a few prints packed with several cameras, but with kids plans get revised more often than not.
Cal, I think I will have to start paying storage fees on that Norwood Director.
 
Thanks Cristian for the info on the lens cap. I realized I left it behind after the fact. Oh well, I'll have to buy Cal another beer....Thanks again for letting me know.
 
I got there late but it was nice to see everyone. Hey I helped john get his 50mm
off his Contax camera which was real nice looking set. By the time I got
home it was poring in Yonkers.

Bob
 
Hi, gang...had a panoply of urgent stuff get in the way of showing up yesterday, but it sounds like a great time was had. Next time for sure.


- Barrett
 
Crazy Fedya said:
And I was ready to go. Had a few prints packed with several cameras, but with kids plans get revised more often than not.
Cal, I think I will have to start paying storage fees on that Norwood Director.
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Not a problem. Just know that I don't text and I'm only on the internet at my boring day job. LOL. Remember that I'm a slacker at heart.

Cal
 
It was really an eye opener comparing prints. I will say that the toning effect of the Piezography is a bit too profound for me and looks too retro for my work. At best the regular neutral ink on matte Canson looked the best. I could see the higher resolution and detail from the Quadtone Rip, but Klaus' prints looked really nice and were very cost effective. I found that Klaus' prints had a more organic tonality, although highly detailed I found the Piezograpghy prints to be like high end photo eching and perhaps not so photographic.

What is currently very interesting though is the digital negatives for contact printing to make a digital/silver print. I'm still stuck on wet prints. The lack of dithering with the Quadtone RIP really adds resolution. I'm coming from the position of being an owner of a Leica Monochrom.

Cal
 
Crazy Fedya said:
Also, I would be interested to use a couple of rolls of Kodak Double X. Anyone has it? I would like to trade for either Tri-x or HP5.
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Sam,

I'm going to bulk up on Kodak 5222 shortly. Perhaps we can create a "XX Co-op." It's about $140.00 per 400 feet which makes about 75 rolls for about $2.00 a roll.

Already priced 100 canisters at Adorama for an initial outlay of about $100.00. My intent is to shoot a lot of film and this means I have to go cheap. I'll e using ADOX for 250 ISO and Diafine for 400 ISO.

Dave Lackey gave me a roll when I saw him in Savannah last week.

Cal
 
Hi Cal,

as I mentioned, this was the very first time ever that I had some file printed. So I am sure, I can do a better job preparing the files for printing. These were at 240dpi but for a first trial, these came out decent and the price on archival paper (Canson Platine Photo Rag) was very reasonable.

As always the law of diminishing returns does apply and you can spent a lot more if you want to push the limit on print quality but some things are just a matter of personal taste or preference. I totally agree with you, the toning of the PG-K7 prints was too much.
 
Klaus and Cal,
thanks for bringing those prints in, it was very informative. They all look great, so I agree with John that nowadays it is hard to do a bad print. While the images from the epsons look great, I still think I prefer the paper quality of the digital C-prints, or b+w Ilford papers. I'd love to see prints side by side printed on an Epson and Ilford paper from one of these services;
http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/printing
https://us.whitewall.com/photo-lab/photo-print/baryt-paper

Cal, since you are an unrepentant film shooter, Pramodh and I decided that you need to get a Visoflex III to turn your MM into a scanner. If you do, I'll teach you how to dust-spot.
 
icebear said:
Hi Cal,

as I mentioned, this was the very first time ever that I had some file printed. So I am sure, I can do a better job preparing the files for printing. These were at 240dpi but for a first trial, these came out decent and the price on archival paper (Canson Platine Photo Rag) was very reasonable.

As always the law of diminishing returns does apply and you can spent a lot more if you want to push the limit on print quality but some things are just a matter of personal taste or preference. I totally agree with you, the toning of the PG-K7 prints was too much.
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Klaus,

I would be very happy with the results you got. At this time my skill as a digital printer is a fat zero. I'm thinking that this winter I hopefully get to that level, but I'm also thinking that the Quadtone RIP will improve the resolution in lew of the OEM driver.

Also 13x19 seems like a nice size for a print. Anyways I'm inspired and know what I'll be concentrating on this winter.

Cal
 
CNNY said:
Klaus and Cal,
thanks for bringing those prints in, it was very informative. They all look great, so I agree with John that nowadays it is hard to do a bad print. While the images from the epsons look great, I still think I prefer the paper quality of the digital C-prints, or b+w Ilford papers. I'd love to see prints side by side printed on an Epson and Ilford paper from one of these services;
http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/printing
https://us.whitewall.com/photo-lab/photo-print/baryt-paper

Cal, since you are an unrepentant film shooter, Pramodh and I decided that you need to get a Visoflex III to turn your MM into a scanner. If you do, I'll teach you how to dust-spot.
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Christian,

First things first. I think I'll concentrate on just printing files from the Monochrom first. Like A deadly Kung-Fu move I first want to master printing pure digital first.

Know that the tens of thousands of negatives I created over the past 5 years will have additions, and as non are really edited or printed it seems like a future head ache that I'm putting off for later. Meanwhile I want to keep on shooting as much film as possible and will be bulking up on Kodak 5222. For me it seems that I like shooting a lot, and it is my belief that if you want to be good that shooting a lot will make me a better photographer. Becoming a great printer is another story. LOL. All I know is that this could be a great project in my retirement only 4 years from now.

I'm still enchanted by wet prints because I like black-blacks. The Piezography digital negatives seems like a great pursuit if one is going to print limited editions. I'm thinking that this offers the best of both analog and digital.

At work I feel like a "short-timer."

Also more and more it seems that the Monochrom is displacing medium format. BTW I still think I'm going to have Jon Cone print a 20x30 matte print using neutral inks. I think in this case the image kinda goes with the medium.

Cal
 
I had the day off today, and the one thing that bothered me about the Nikon S3
was the advance lever, it always drag when it went back, well not any more it
works great now. I did cleaned it out a little more, and it's working much better.

Bob
 
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