Connect - Fujifilm Professional Magazine Spring/Summer 2006

Sounds like an interesting magazine.
Regarding the Fuji Pro 400H film, I printed a clients roll of this yesterday & found it is a very low contrast, low saturation film, I was quite surprised by the look of it.
Fuji CA has long been considered the longest lasting color silver halide paper around, but personally I find some of Wilhelm Research's longevity ratings hard to believe. Especially some of their inkjet longevity ratings, my own inkjet prints haven't lasted as well as they should have according to wilhelm, maybe I was meant to display them in a hermetically sealed laboratory!

 

Thanks pentax for the info.

Hey Sam....read this

http://www.apug.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21463

 

Hey David, thanks for that link.
Seems these inkjet manufacturers love to promise the world, but guarantee nothing!
Like vampires you can't expose them to day light, or they turn a funny colour & go crazy!

 

Thanks Pentaxuser

I was speaking to Jerry Deeney from Fuji this week. Apparently they have received lots of good feedback about the magazine, although apart from your post, I haven't had any directly! They gave out an extra 5000 copies at Focus on Imaging at Birmingham.

The Mercury Rising feature on which photographers went out on August 12th 2005 to record what was predicted to be hte hottest day of the year was of interest to me also. When checking my records, I discovered that my featured images were also taken on that day. How spooky is that?

Regarding the logevity of the Colour papers, I was surprised they are as low as this.

I haven't re-investigated, but would hope that they are using more stringent criteria than they do for inkjet images. If not, it is worrying and many inkjet/paper combinations will far outlast the Crystal-archive let alone the Kodak.

When I investigated inkjet life using Willhelm, the quoted figure was extrapolated from high intensity testing. From memory I recall that the pictures were under glass, for the equivalent of just 10 hours of low level light (flourescent I think) per day and fading was deemed to have taken place when a 30% degradation had taken place in one or more colours........ not very archival. And once again proving that reading the small print can be worthwhile.

 

When thinking about archival standards, get out you light meter and see for yourself how few lux they talk about.

Put your own work in the sun and see what it does: decide for yourself.

I love inkjet for a lot of stuff. But the sickness starts when one BELIEVES in the technology instead of oneself. The sign you've gone over the edge is when you say, with complete sincerity, "Well, if it fades, I'll print another one !"

Lying to oneself and believing it was often handled in Greek Tragedy.
Today, we don't notice it.

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But did you like the result? I like the film a lot. Maybe even a LOT.

 

Congratulations to Baxter!

Now, to try and get my hands on a copy of the magazine....

 

Nothing more exotic than the cloud formation I'm afraid. Exposure was 30s, so hard to record bird movement and most of them were still in bed anyway!

 

I quite liked it. An unusual look in this day of high contrast high saturation images. I think it looks like a very nice film for portraits.