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Fuji Professional GSW69III - razor sharp Fujinon 65mm f/5.6 wide angle lens (approx 28mm equivalent in 35mm format). Latest model of the camera, excellent condition, working perfectly, comes complete in original box, instruction manual and strap. It provides huge 6x9 inch negatives from a body which...

Ian: Very good info on Don Hutcheson's website, thanks. In the example above I adjusted black and white points only for simplicity, usually I'd end up with a good few control points. Charles: Good to know others use this type of technique. I don't know of such an action but I'm sure one exists or ca...

Just a heads up for anyone who may be interested. I was very tempted to this myself but have concluded I just dont have the space for another drum scanner. The seller was most helpful on querying about the machine. Should produce superb results for anyone keen enough to put the effort into the machi...

Updated: An overview of scanning colour negatives: http://www.tristancampbell.co.uk/scanning-colour-negatives Yesterday it was suggested it would be good to see a thread where people show or explain how they process a colour negative. I know getting colour right is something that puts a lot of peopl...

Yes, I've many a time scanned as a transparency and worked backwards from there. Rarely do that these days though. In fact my 7500 scan in this comparison used that technique- it was a transparency scanned as a negative and colour corrected from there... only ever scanned about 5 transparencies and ...

How about profiling for colour negatives though? I have my own methods of processing them which I'm very happy with but getting an accurate colour match between a series of negs can be very difficult unless they were taken on the same film at the same time, same processing and scanned together. Not ...

All very interesting. Scanner profiling is an area Tim knows that I've not really got around to yet, I'm keen to look into it at some point however. It is certainly very impressive that Tim and Ian can both reproduce the images so consistently. To me it all depends on your point of view and what you...

Patrick - my 7500 is not calibrated in any way. My monitor is reasonably well calibrated and the colour was matched (or attempted to be matched) by eye alone. I'm not a fan of super saturation so my scans probably reflect that. Cheers, Tristan

timparkin wrote:

Patrick Dixon wrote: with the howtek 7500 looking the most real.

As it was on Velvia, this doesn't testify to the accuracy of the scan

Nor does it testify to the accuracy of Velvia. Glad you found using a larger aperture helpful.

Thanks Tim, appreciated. Totally understand the control aspect and would love to indulge in that. However I'll be sticking with my lab prints as unless you can (at the very least) break even in print sales it seems a very expensive route.

On printer economics has anyone worked out how many prints you need to be producing to break even on getting a lab to do the print? I'd love one of these printers but with the cost of printer, paper and ink it just doesn't seem viable to me when printing a fairly small number of prints per year. Plu...

I think the choice of emulsions comprises of: Kodak 400NC. I shot 20 rolls on 6x9 recently and was very happy with the results. Slightly more grain (than 160) on a drum scan but I would certainly not hesitate to use it 5x4. AG Photographic have it but if you're planning on shooting a lot of it I'd i...

Superb and inspiring images Richard, subject matter I'm really interested in exploring myself at some point. I particularly like the Blackstone Edge image - very atmospheric and lovely composition. Sounds hard work if you are being challenged all the time. I've been stopped by the police four times ...

I've bought online at FFordes many time, no problems. The item is usually removed immediately though. On a couple of occasions I've bought onlineto be told it was sold offline and is no longer available which is a little annoying but all round they are excellent, highly recommended in my view.

If find this a very pleasing image to view. For me the exposure and colour on the original image are absolutely fine, very much as I imagine the scene would actually look. As you're on negative film I don't think you need a grad for this or to darken the sky other than maybe just a tiny amount for m...