Let's All Print (or Maybe Scan) One Negative 2025

[cowanw]

Takes me two weeks to send a letter next door. But yes it arrived.

 

[mcfitz]

Thanks Don. Mine arrived in this morning's post.
This is amazing postal service between Canada & France - four working days, or something of that sort?

And tomorrow's a darkroom day for me.

 

[Don_ih]

That was fast - I'm surprised. Good luck with it!

 

[Reginald S]

YesYesYes!!!

Must have something to do with a wormhole here, but the transfer Canada/Germany ended today??

Don, thanks a lot for T'_____ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄhjuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu90
8bu mkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- says my amazing cat, sorry.

Again - thanks a lot for your letter and it's content which isn't "just" a negative from the other end of the world but also a postcard-ish print, plus a whole DinA4-letter describing nearly everything.
Thank you, and after three seconds of regarding your positive I got at least five ideas how to realize my part of this wonderful project.

Best,
Reginald

 

[snusmumriken]

Why am I not surprised that the UK is behind here?

 

[Don_ih]

I'm just glad they're making it where I sent them.

 

[Jacob Iverson]

Hi everyone. This is a great idea.

No enlarger in my home setup yet, but if there's still time to receive a scan, I am totally game.

 

[Don_ih]

if there's still time to receive a scan

There is time. The scan isn't yet available to those who want it - so welcome aboard!

 

[koraks]

The scan isn't yet available to those who want it

After touching base with @Don_ih, we have decided that this is a good moment to publish the scans, as the negatives are also arriving in the mail. I've posted an update to #1 in this thread, and will include the same text below:

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Update September 17: by now, the negatives are arriving in the mail, which makes this a good moment to also release the digital scans for those who want to work with a digital file. Here are three versions:
www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_4990_4800dpi.tif (Epson 4990 @ 4800dpi; 72Mbyte)
www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_FTPII_6300dpi.tif (Flextight Precision II @ 6300dpi; 100Mbyte)
www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_SDIV_3200dpi.tif (Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV @ 3200dpi; 28Mbyte)
The Minolta scan marked in bold is the one recommended to work with. The other two are offered to those who like to compare or perhaps want to optimize some aspect of the image that for some reason comes out better in one of the other scans. All files are 16 bit depth monochrome TIFF files with no layers or compression. If you have any trouble downloading or opening the scan of your choice, please contact @koraks.
The scans are uninverted, unsharpened and intended to capture the full tonal range of the image on the negative. No effort was done to try and match the scans in terms of contrast etc. Where possible, automatic corrections were disabled in the scanning software. Any dust or imperfections remain untouched in the linked files. It's up to you to edit, fix as you see fit.

 

[Don_ih]

Thanks to @koraks for his efforts in scanning and making it available.

Those who quickly grab and edit (or those who quickly make prints), please don't post result just yet - but feel free to say that you're done. We want to wait until we have a good number of people ready.

 

[cowanw]

Not sure if something is supposed to happen when one clicks the above addresses but nothing comes up on my end. FYI

 

[Don_ih]

nothing comes up on my end

It does on a computer (I just checked). They are links to download image files - not display them in a browser. They are TIFFs, not JPGs.

 

[bedrof]

Not sure if something is supposed to happen when one clicks the above addresses but nothing comes up on my end. FYI

I downloaded the Minolta scan with no issues

 

[koraks]

Not sure if something is supposed to happen when one clicks the above addresses but nothing comes up on my end. FYI

Check your 'downloads' folder. The file is probably there. Downloading often happens in the background. Note that these scans will not show up as an image in your browser.

 

[cowanw]

Oddly I had to "open in new window" then it worked fine

 

[snusmumriken]

Download works ok for me. Curiosity got the better of me while I await the celluloid.

 

[Don_ih]

Your negative will mostly match the scan. My tripod had a pretty bad hold on the camera. It turned every time I advanced the film. So the left and right varies from shot to shot.

Not as bad as the attempt I made on the second half of the roll of film. With that one, I only noticed after developing that the camera was tilting a bit more to one side after every shot.

Definitely not the right tripod.

 

[dcy]

Not sure if something is supposed to happen when one clicks the above addresses but nothing comes up on my end. FYI

They are direct links to the TIFF files. They are a bit large, but I had no trouble downloading them. For a moment they didn't download and I noticed a tiny notification from my browser asking me to verify that I was sure I wasn't downloading malware. With that done, the files downloaded fine and I was able to open them.

 

[snusmumriken]

Your negative will mostly match the scan. My tripod had a pretty bad hold on the camera. It turned every time I advanced the film. So the left and right varies from shot to shot.

Not as bad as the attempt I made on the second half of the roll of film. With that one, I only noticed after developing that the camera was tilting a bit more to one side after every shot.

Definitely not the right tripod.

For some reason it cheers me to hear that. I was disappointed it wasn't a canoe picture, though .

 

[Don_ih]

I was disappointed it wasn't a canoe picture

No canoes anywhere near me, I'm afraid.

The other "option" was this, by the way:

 

[jeffreyg]

I used the bold printed link. Worked fine, easily converted to a positive and resized with no editing and made a print on Moab Juniper just to see what was originally recorded. Will be working on it soon.
How should we post or send what we come up with and should we list what we happen to do?

 

[koraks]

How should we post or send what we come up with and should we list what we happen to do?

In whichever way you see fit, basically.
Glad to hear the scan has worked OK for you (and others) so far!

 

[Anon Ymous]

www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_4990_4800dpi.tif (Epson 4990 @ 4800dpi; 72Mbyte)
www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_FTPII_6300dpi.tif (Flextight Precision II @ 6300dpi; 100Mbyte)
www.koraks.nl/zut/PNX2509_SDIV_3200dpi.tif (Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV @ 3200dpi; 28Mbyte)
The Minolta scan marked in bold is the one recommended to work with.

Agreed! It's a very decent scan and far better than the Epson one. BTW, @Don_ih interesting image to work with.

 

[Don_ih]

interesting image to work with

Thanks. It could've been better, could've been worse. I wanted a sufficient amount of complexity to give people something to focus on.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thank you koraks for the scan!