Digital BW, The Print

A search on pricegrabber.com indicates the 2200 as being in-stock at
buydig.com and Etronics for whatever that is worth.

Also, I attended a freebie seminar at Apple in Chicago this week on "The Art
of High Resolution Imaging." The speaker was Jeff Schewe
(www.schewephoto.com) and it was very good considering the price.  He has
PDF files describing some of his techniques on his site (click on site map).

They had a 2200 there, but it belonged to Jeff Schewe.  He displayed several
matted prints of his work all from the 2200 on Enhanced Matte paper, but the
lighting was horrible for viewing them.  There were no samples or brochures
on the 2200 for the taking.

An Epson rep was there and he kept saying, "you better hurry and order your
2200.  Every photographer in the U.S. already has theirs on order."
According to the rep., they are supposed to be available at the end of
August, and he seemed genuinely surprised when I told him B&H listed them as
in-stock on Monday.  Infact, he said he didn't even have a 2200 yet and was
supposed to get his next week.  I offered him cash for it, but he declined.

I also mentioned the gray balance software and he made a comment to the
effect that Europeans see things differently.  I don't know if he was
speaking figuratively or literally.

--Tom

On 7/31/02 6:51 PM, "Thomas Fors" <tom@...> wrote:

> Also, I attended a freebie seminar at Apple in Chicago this week on "The Art
> of High Resolution Imaging." The speaker was Jeff Schewe
> (www.schewephoto.com) and it was very good considering the price.  He has
> PDF files describing some of his techniques on his site (click on site map).
> 
> They had a 2200 there, but it belonged to Jeff Schewe.  He displayed several
> matted prints of his work all from the 2200 on Enhanced Matte paper, but the
> lighting was horrible for viewing them.  There were no samples or brochures
> on the 2200 for the taking.

Yeah, Antonis and I saw Jeff last week in LA...with his handy 2200 in tow.
He told us that the 2200's were all on a boat somewhere between Japan and
here...that was last week.  We had better lighting for viewing...but we
couldn't move the prints...so its hard to say about metamerism. I asked him
why the BW prints he was showing were so crappy (big grin) and he said that
he "hadn't played with the toning yet"...just printed them straight out
(gosh that sound's like BW printing with a six color printer...don't
it...can't make something good that's neutral so I think I will tone it to
try to get rid of the nasty crossovers).  His comments would imply that
perhaps he had the gray balancer software in his package...speculation...
speculation.

Robert

>>There were no samples or brochures on the 2200 for the taking...According
to the rep., they are supposed to be available at the end of August<<

In my limited experience with Epson representatives, I have come to the
conclusion that they are some of the most lame product representatives out
there.  This spring, one of them claimed to not know anything about the 2450
scanner.  If you ask them about something that might be stated in the
product literature, there is a chance you *might* get the right answer out
of them.  If you ask them anything else, it is highly unlikely that you will
get a correct answer out of them.

Doug