HP 9180 users?

[Loris Medici]

Hi Sandy,

Thanks for the information. My procedure is the same, except I choose "HP Advanced Photo Paper Glossy" instead of "HP Photo Paper Glossy". Will try using that setting. BTW, I noticed minor pizza wheel marks problems with Advanced Photo Paper setting but I'm generally content with the results.

What I don't like most with this printer is: Loading 8x11 Pictorico sheets is a real PIA. Even that small flat sheets won't feed smoothly into the printer (using the "Specialty Media Tray"); 9 in 10 attempt I will have to open the top cover and manually guide the paper. Another problem is that the head collides with the corners of the paper while printing on the bottom of the sheet - if the sheet is not absolutely / perfectly flat. I get this problem even with sheets from a just opened pack (which was stored flat). What is your experience with feeding? Do you get similar problems?

Finally, IME Ultrafine is definitely not suitable for this printer.

Best regards,
Loris.

P.S. Have you had time to deal with negatives taken in Turkey? I would like to see some images from Turkey...

Printing Color Digital Negatives with the HP 9180

1. First, prepare the file by sizing and making it look on screen as you like.

2. Invert the file.

3. Apply the color layer.

4. To print from Photoshop, click on Print with Preview, and then use the same settings you use for Epson printers to print PDN negatives. Set Document to Adobe RGB (1998), and Profile to Same as Source.

5. Click on Print.

6. In the Copies and Pages Menu, click Paper Type/Quality menu.

7. Set paper type to HP Photo Paper Gloss, Quality to maximum dpi, Color to Application Managed Colors, Color Options to default values, and Ink settings to default values. Select Specialty Media Tray for Pictorico film.

8. Print

Let me know how this works.

 

[sanking]

P.S. Have you had time to deal with negatives taken in Turkey? I would like to see some images from Turkey...

Hi Loris,

Well, I have finally gotten my medium format negatives organized and am about to print some of the ones I made in Turkey. Attached is an image I made on one of the excursions with Bulent. This is Aya Nikolas, near a Black Sea village northeast of Istanbul.

Sandy

 

[Loris Medici]

Beatiful,

Please share the remainter with us later...

Best regards,
Loris.

P.S. I desperately need a 6x9 camera for making small contact prints; I wish I had a GW690 III like yours. I want to make small gems!!! I recently had an old Moskva 5 (a russian camera based on Zeiss Ikonta C design) CLA'd, unfortunately the results were extremely bad...

Hi Loris,

Well, I have finally gotten my medium format negatives organized and am about to print some of the ones I made in Turkey. Attached is an image I made on one of the excursions with Bulent. This is Aya Nikolas, near a Black Sea village northeast of Istanbul.

Sandy

 

[sanking]

Beatiful,

Please share the remainter with us later...

Best regards,
Loris.

P.S. I desperately need a 6x9 camera for making small contact prints; I wish I had a GW690 III like yours. I want to make small gems!!! I recently had an old Moskva 5 (a russian camera based on Zeiss Ikonta C design) CLA'd, unfortunately the results were extremely bad...

Hi Loris,

I went through my contact sheets and made full scans at 2540 dpi of about fifty (50) of the negatives I made in Turkey. All were made with either the Fuji GA645Zi or the GW690III. The big negative of the GW690III is great to work with, but most of my best negatives were made with the GA645Zi. I was lookiing today with a loupe at some of the negatives I made with this camera in the Blue Mosque and even at 1/4 to 1/9 of a second they were very sharp, and everything is always exposed perfectly and focused perfectly. I remember that you did not think much of the GAS645Zi, but IMO it is a wonderful camera, very versatile with a modest zoom that is very, very sharp and contrasty. I shoot color negative film in it almost exclusively.

But, the attached image was made with the GW690III, in the Old Mosque at Edirne. Perspective has been restored with the edit>transform>distort feature in Photoshop. The original negative was HP5+, with some old 220 film that I have had frozen for maybe ten years, but still works nice with relatively low B+S.

Once I print all of this out I will put my best images on a CD and send it to you.

Sandy

 

[Loris Medici]

Hi Sandy,

GA645Zi is indeed a nice camera but the negatives from it are smaller than what I need.

I know the advantages of the rangefinders; I often go down to 1/8 with my Voigtlander rangefinders...

I just made calculations for a 4x5" Shen-Hao (once more) with two Rodenstocks (150/5.6 APO-Sironar-S + 90/6.8 Grandagon-N) and it's still too much for my budget. I could use that system for producing 4x5" LF or 6x9 / 6x12 MF negatives (with a roll film back). Every new day makes me feel more and more tart against digitally enlarged negatives -> I just want to be fully "analogue".

Wow, what a treat! Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Loris.

Hi Loris,

...

The big negative of the GW690III is great to work with, but most of my best negatives were made with the GA645Zi. I was looking today with a loupe at some of the negatives I made with this camera in the Blue Mosque and even at 1/4 to 1/9 of a second they were very sharp, and everything is always exposed perfectly and focused perfectly. I remember that you did not think much of the GAS645Zi, but IMO it is a wonderful camera, very versatile with a modest zoom that is very, very sharp and contrasty.

...

Once I print all of this out I will put my best images on a CD and send it to you.