11-14-2012, 10:47 AM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1352851174' post='20943']
It seems nobody wants to play with us………Photozone used to be a very general photography site and we had lots of discussions here on many things photographic. I remember discussing the virtues of Kodachrome vs Velvia and Klaus allowing me to call him "the radioactive color man"……. I don't quite agree that photozone is a lens site, but it never was a printing site…..[/quote]
hi joachim and thanks for this -
yes i've been a reader at Pz for some time only starting to contribute when i felt that the gallery was very slow and so i tried to rev it up by adding pics of my own and one thing led to another…… including a change of name to simplify it for me……
and re. Pz's recent quiet period - well there is the move from difficult film to simpler quality digital and also i wonder that the major global economic turn down must have affected discretionary spending and so slowed the photography market overall, + i expect that k's move down under has been a distraction - moving half way around the world is a major disruption (although doing this within ones own company is maybe not so bad) - i know of these problems because i have done similar moves several times over the years, long term moves mean everything changes every time and then again if you return - nowadays it is possibly not so difficult, but socially i am not so sure -
…..i like large prints……
i should be more careful how i phrase what i write - in my mind it all makes sense, but the words come out garbled and phrased wrong although it all makes sense to me :-) …….. so re. the Hahne photorag - i love it and use nothing else, but the printing person who was making prints of my pics (to test the gear that i'm interested in) couldn't make it work on a difficult picture, so that was the problem - i have since found the answers that i'm asking from another printer (who made super prints, lovely colour and grey scale and definition from the same files on the H photorag / canon) -
……my current understanding is that the iPF5100 (affordable for me) might not give such fine definition/separation in the blacks as the 6300 or 8300 - this quality is important for me but down here the 6300 is a tad too expensive …….. in any case i understand that i'd have to leave the printer powered up all the time and print regularly, so although i now have 80 and more shots that i'd like to print out i'd probably have to do them at the rate of one or two a week to keep everything working :-)
- hmmm - the attraction of having my own printer on hand is that i'd print more of my iffy stuff where as at $85 a 24"X16" pop i dont
so i hope this is all sensible now - and finally keeping prints under glass in a darkish room seems to work for me, maybe not so much in a hot and bright sun-shiny room (such days like we used to have until someone brought some german type weather with him :-) ......but i haven't tried doing the pics in a sun-room type of setting yet
so, thanks again,
keith
It seems nobody wants to play with us………Photozone used to be a very general photography site and we had lots of discussions here on many things photographic. I remember discussing the virtues of Kodachrome vs Velvia and Klaus allowing me to call him "the radioactive color man"……. I don't quite agree that photozone is a lens site, but it never was a printing site…..[/quote]
hi joachim and thanks for this -
yes i've been a reader at Pz for some time only starting to contribute when i felt that the gallery was very slow and so i tried to rev it up by adding pics of my own and one thing led to another…… including a change of name to simplify it for me……
and re. Pz's recent quiet period - well there is the move from difficult film to simpler quality digital and also i wonder that the major global economic turn down must have affected discretionary spending and so slowed the photography market overall, + i expect that k's move down under has been a distraction - moving half way around the world is a major disruption (although doing this within ones own company is maybe not so bad) - i know of these problems because i have done similar moves several times over the years, long term moves mean everything changes every time and then again if you return - nowadays it is possibly not so difficult, but socially i am not so sure -
Quote:….you really need such a big printer? The things you quote are massive.
…..i like large prints……
Quote:……What is your issue with the Photo Rag?
i should be more careful how i phrase what i write - in my mind it all makes sense, but the words come out garbled and phrased wrong although it all makes sense to me :-) …….. so re. the Hahne photorag - i love it and use nothing else, but the printing person who was making prints of my pics (to test the gear that i'm interested in) couldn't make it work on a difficult picture, so that was the problem - i have since found the answers that i'm asking from another printer (who made super prints, lovely colour and grey scale and definition from the same files on the H photorag / canon) -
Quote:……Canon used to sell Hahnemühle photo rag as FA-PR1 (the 188g version) and I quite liked to print it on my 6700D. Unfortunately Canon doesn't sell this any more. Need to test whether this paper sold under the Hahnemühle brand has the same properties……..I have to be a bit careful with the subject matter. The printer doesn't achieve high density, so one need subjects which are quite bright. There is works well. Otherwise I like the Canon SG201……
……my current understanding is that the iPF5100 (affordable for me) might not give such fine definition/separation in the blacks as the 6300 or 8300 - this quality is important for me but down here the 6300 is a tad too expensive …….. in any case i understand that i'd have to leave the printer powered up all the time and print regularly, so although i now have 80 and more shots that i'd like to print out i'd probably have to do them at the rate of one or two a week to keep everything working :-)
- hmmm - the attraction of having my own printer on hand is that i'd print more of my iffy stuff where as at $85 a 24"X16" pop i dont
so i hope this is all sensible now - and finally keeping prints under glass in a darkish room seems to work for me, maybe not so much in a hot and bright sun-shiny room (such days like we used to have until someone brought some german type weather with him :-) ......but i haven't tried doing the pics in a sun-room type of setting yet
so, thanks again,
keith