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I got a film scanner for my birthday, somewhat to my surprise:

Jasper, Canada, some years ago now ...

It's a Nikon Coolscan V ED, and it's great - I can feed it film strips and it'll just scan them in while I do other stuff.

This godforsaken spot is Reilly Lake, where we experienced more bugs per cubic cm of air than I have ever seen before or since:

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 05:17:39 AM EST
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Happy Birthday!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 05:20:07 AM EST
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Happy birthday !!!!

Great and intelligent gift :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 05:27:26 AM EST
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Great? Yes.

Intelligent? I not so sure:

and I want one of these:

A Voightlander Bessa R2M to be exact. Though a nice Leica M4 or something would be fine too.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:24:32 AM EST
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With the scanner you can have the best of the two worlds ! (but it can be a lengthy process).

I always wondered about the Bessa vs the Leica ? I still have my father's Agfa Ambi Silette II I leraned photgraphy with, that looks a lot like the Bessa ( A 1950 version) with a circular iris shutter, the lens mount being the shutter ring that stays with the camera...

My M6 was great but I found that it's level of goodness wasn't related to it's level of price ! I miss it, but wonder if I'm missing a good rangefinder more then one of that peculiar brand...

If I shifted back to film, I think the Bessa would my my choice for a travel, street, everyday camera (I can't easily find lenses for the Ambi-Silette!)... :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:41:08 AM EST
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I'm reasonably certain that a Bessa will outlast me by almost as much as a Leica will! Leica's are just too expensive to justify.

I don't intend shooting colour film much - though slides scanned at 4000 dpi are sort of nice if you want to print on the side of the house - so it would be B&W, which I enjoy developing.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:45:19 AM EST
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That's one of my incentive to get older... To find the time to put back my B&W darkroom in works :-)
FP4 is great but I do like the fuji Acros which you tend to find more easily here because of the aggressive marketing of Fuji !

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:56:01 AM EST
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Developing B&W doesn't need a darkroom! A tank and reels, some chemicals and a changing bag and you're done.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 09:57:28 AM EST
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Those are at hand (with powder packs of Perceptol, ID 11 and Microphen just in case I push or reduce a film), but I like the enlarger prints, and the voodoo magic of the picture showing up in the tray !
It worked with all of my children... Big gleaming eyes !

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Mar 7th, 2008 at 10:08:30 AM EST
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As you know, I have the 5000 ED, but in order to scan uncut strips I need to buy an accessory--an SA-30-- and no one hereabouts seems to have it. Did you need to buy a similar gizmo? If so, --how expensive is it? Sure would be nice-

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 at 01:56:43 PM EST
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The Coolscan V comes with a feeder that will take 35mm film cut in the normal 6 frame strips, which is fine for me: I generally cut film to that length for storage anyway and my iMac can scan while I work or read ET or whatever. I can't work out from the website whether the 5000 shipped with one of those. I'd need to buy an accessory for scanning whole rolls. Actually, I'm not certain if I can even buy such an accessory for the V, which I think might be one of the reasons for the more "professional" price on the 5000. That and the 16-bit A/D convertor.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 at 02:08:59 PM EST
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Thanks- my 5000 came also with the gizmo for the 6-frame sections, but the 5000 scans faster, and I've found a processor who will do color positives and negatives in strips-uncut. Then I can have a life, and good 16-bit scans too.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 07:17:54 AM EST
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It looks like at this shop they have the SA30 (reels) and the SA21(strips)... :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 at 02:29:48 PM EST
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Whoa.
For over 900 Euros inc. tax, I'll just muddle along with my current rig.
Thanks, though, for finding this.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 07:37:37 AM EST
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