Recent content by ntenny

Yes, I’ll report back. The Provia is expired, though, so I may not get unambiguous information from that roll. Thanks, that’s a good idea. They’re a major transfer point for travel all over Asia, so if this is their regular policy it’s pretty bad for film users. I foresee using more Delta...

I was just refused a hand check on (most of) my film at Incheon (ICN) terminal 2, during an international-to-international transfer. There’s a security checkpoint after the passport check, and it’s all Analogic CT scanners—the round spaceship-looking ones that actually say CT on the side...

To my surprise it appears no one has reported on Beijing yet. I just went through domestic security in terminal 2 at Beijing Capital (PEK), and it was plain x-ray scanners. What was a little unusual is that they wanted all cables and all cameras to come out and be scanned separately. They...

I tend to agree with this. My only 4x5 is a Pacemaker Speed Graphic (I have a couple of 5x7 field cameras), and I mainly use it for casual landscapes and the occasional family snapshot; for those uses I think a monorail would be impractical and all the extra movements unnecessary, and it’s nice...

Have you tried pulling it into Photoshop or GIMP and using auto white balance there? It’s not always right, but I’ve had pretty good luck with it correcting badly magenta-shifted images. -NT

Thanks! Yes, the lenses are Cassars, and they’re not perfectly aligned on this camera; when one side is right In focus the other is slightly off, but in typical use (this shot was at f/11) the dof hides the issue. -NT

I’ve had very little photo time this year, but I made it out into the woods with a Wirgin Stereo last month. This isn’t a very interesting image by itself, but when viewed in stereo, there are a lot of layers. Parallel-view stereo pair (HP5+ in PC-TEA at box speed, negative scan). -NT

I’ve used HC-110 for fog control with old plates. Older ones are often ortho, so you can develop by inspection, but for pan plates you’ll have to do some guessing. -NT

You folks just don’t pick the right animals for large-format portraiture. It can be done: (OK, to be fair, this shot was handheld with a Speed Graphic, so it could have been a faster-moving subject. I don’t seem ever to have taken a good cat picture on LF though.) -NT

X-ray or CT? I would have guessed X-ray would be even safer for paper than for film, but I don’t recall seeing any actual tests of paper through either kind. Sorry that happened. -NT

I looked into this a while ago and found a place in LA that could do it, called BowHaus. They’re expensive and seem to be a specialist fine-prints place mostly; I didn’t end up following through with the LVT route, but they seemed very competent and engaged when I communicated with them. -NT...

Right, that’s my point: The desktop scanner control apps do it, but I’m wondering if the remote-camera apps can do something similar. If they can, it would go a long way towards making a large batch-scan operation practical. -NT

Do these camera-control apps do things like file naming in an organized way? One of the process criteria I had was that people need to be able to start from a file and find the original slide—e.g., in case someone wants to get a higher-grade pro scan of a specific frame. So it’s important to...

I just went through 15,000 slides with a 4990. It was quite a slog, but I imagine it would have been a lot worse if I’d had to interact with every slide individually instead of batches of 8–at some point it just becomes impossible to review images instead of just mechanically cranking them...

I see a couple of the originals on eBay, but I’d expect any 32mm push-on hood would work. -NT