Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Lyons Cox" 
<lyonscox@c...> wrote:

> 
> ?? What's the going rate for having slides made ??  Or are you 
charging to make slides ??

Rate depends on several factors-you can take you prints in to a 
photo-lab and have them done, that have a first-shot fee of $10-20 
in my area, with duplicates at $1-3 each; Photogs who go out to do 
slides for artists and art galleires sometimes charge a base fee of 
at least $75.00 with a per-slide fee on top, or sometimes for a more 
extensive shoot, a time & materials rate which depends a lot on your 
location.

> ?? When you have a digital file, I'm presuming making a slide of 
the print, just as you would a silver ??

Not necessarily-my local lab can make a slide from a file that is 
just awesome. They have a minimum charge of $20.00 but that will get 
you 5 copies.

> ?? When doing slides yourself are you bracketing like crazy to be 
sure ??

NO... if you want to do it right, you should set up, do a bracket of 
one piece with a gray-card and/or color-checker in the image, and 
take that to the lab and proccess it, then pick your exposure. If 
you have to change camera-to-subject distance a lot, then do a 
bracket at furthest distance and closest, to account for lens 
extension. 
Since your light won't change, the best exposure now applies to 
anything you put in that light. If you make a note of the exposure 
setting for that film and cam-to-subject range, you should be able 
to do the next session without testing or bracketing, provided 
nothing important changes. 
This method allows you to check not only film speed, but color-
shift, evenness of lighting as well as rectilinear alignment of your 
camera to copy-board. If you shoot a heavily textured paper or 
painting, or anything under glass, you will need to polarize both 
lights and camera to get rid of specular highlights, reflections, 
etc.

> ?? When doing slides yourself HOW MANY slides are you trying for 
of each work to have on hand ??

Depends on how many contests you can stand to enter. Best approach 
is to set one of each aside, and if you run out have dupes made-
they're relatively cheap.
> 
> The show at our local community college of photography opening 
this weekend is a complete mix of traditional and digital.  I 
suspect the 'amateur' market is quicker to take up the digital.  
The 'professional' has already been hit with the benefits of digital 
in certain aspects of his work long ago. 

Unfortunately, some of us 'professionals' have yet to be presented 
with a viable and affordable solution. It still isn't practical for 
architectural/interior work, which is what pays my bills.. Maybe 
next year.

Steve K

> The "advanced amateur" is hanging a bit, if they are undecided 
about their 'career' goals.
> 
> Curiously,
> Cleavis
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