Digital BW, The Print

The Humble Bundle site currently has three bundles of photography
e-books. At a rough guess there are three dozen titles and if you want
the lot it will put you back $15.

The books are multi-format, which usually means .pdf, .mobi and .epub

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/digital-cameras-and-photography-books

Dick


On 07 Jan 2019 17:27:17 +0000
"roark.paul@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint]"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> (This forum needs more volume.  This post is also on LuLa.)
>  
> 
>  My old, but very good, Nikon 8000 scanner will not connect to my new
> computers.  Even the adapter I bought for Firewire to Thunderbolt
> failed.  (Bummer!)  So, I decided to see if my Canon 100mm f/2.8L
> macro lens and Sony a7rii body could do an acceptable job.  (I was
> skeptical, to say the least.)  I have an old enlarger stand that
> makes a good copy stand.  After using a mirror under  the camera/lens
> setup to be sure the lens was close to perfectly aligned, I'm happy
> to say the Nikon scanner is not needed.  I take 3 shots of the
> negative (at f/5.6), with the system adjusted such that the width of
> the MF negative almost fills the long dimension of the 35mm frame.
> PS easily merges the shots.  I use the old head for the enlarger,
> upside-down on the baseboard, for a light source.   The final black
> and white display prints made from this method of accessing my old
> negatives are definitely up to professional display and gallery
> quality fine art sales.  You don't need a drum or Flextight scan of
> those 120 roll film negatives.  The quality of those old MF
> negatives, particularly those on Tech Pan film, are simply amazing.
> So, I'm happily "mining" 40 years of negatives, and really
> appreciating what that old Rollei GX and SL66 on a tripod could (and
> can) do.  (BTW, I was sufficiently fanatical that I used only every
> other frame on the film to be sure the bend of the film around the
> rollers of the cameras did not cause the film to come off the film
> plane.)  My first effort is now the main image on my webpage. 
> 
>  Paul
>  
>  www.PaulRoark.com http://www.PaulRoark.com 



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