Digital BW, The Print

You have excited me egad especially so, as with that name I suspect you may
be a robot of some kind.

Actually you could be a book, a talking book perhaps?

----- Original Message -----
From: "p5198" <rbollini@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:26 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] re: my wife/what cameras do you like


> Paul's right: given a tripod and film flatness, quite ordinary lenses
> generate remarkable negs. Which brings me to the cheapest solution of
> all. The 6x7 Koni-Omegas are built like armored vehicles, and
> incorporate the Simmons backplate in their separable magazines. The
> backplate moves away from the film plane as the film is advanced, and
> the last centimeter or so of the film advance slide presses it
> FLAT against the film and film plane. And the lenses are at least
> good, and in two instances damn good. (Hexanons). The machines were a
> press standard in the seventies, and are now all over the place for
> $250, usually with the 90mm. I use the twin-lens variant, the
> Koni-Omegaflex, much rarer and a hundred dollars or so more
> expensive.
> Scanned with a new Epson 2450 for printing in my 1160, the 6x7
> negatives are very, very satisfying.
> Bob Bollini
>
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