My first few 4x5 slides scanned and posted

[Alexz]

Hello friends.
I was away from the community for a fairly long time (was busy with study, work, family), was hardly having any time to pull out my Shen at all.
Now it seems will be having some time to devote to my passion, so managed to scan few of my slides shot several months ago. These are the first scans out of my 4x5 at all since I begun my LF adventure about a year and half ago.
Scanned by Imacon (about 200 MB at 8 bit per channel, very slightly post-processed for web).
Kindly invite your guys to my gallery:

www.zabrovsky.com -> galleries -> LF

Your opinions are most welcomed.

P.S. the slides may appear a bit to overexp. side - I apparently overestimated my polarizer factor (took 1 2/3 stops compensation) due to lack of experience, now I take a half stop less (1 1/3 stops).

Thanks in advance, Alex

 

[noseoil]

Alex, my usual compensation for a polarizer is 1 2/3 stops, or 2 stops with an 81b warming filter & polarizer. How did you meter this amount? Do you use a spot meter? tim

P.S. My software doesn't seem to let me click on links on your web page properly. Is it my computer here at home? Will try at work next week.

 

[Alexz]

Hi Tim, thanks for your prompt reponse.
Well, I used to think my polarizer "eats up" also about 1 2/3 stops (I have Heliopan multicoated) so I compensated accordingly.
I always meter by my Zone modified Pentax Digital spotmeter. After realizing the signs of moderate overexp. I conducted a brief evaluation of my polarizer factor taking few measurements of the same subject through and without polarizer and it indeed indicated 1 1/3 - 1 1/2 difference, more likely 1 1/3.

Just checked my web page once again, in both FireFox/Mozilla (my regular browser) and IE - all seems to work fine, no problems.

 

[noseoil]

Alex, I generally use my spot meter to test filters and go with these results. My method is to meter through the filter and use a gray card as the test subject. This seems to work well enough for me so far. I use 1 2/3 stops above zone 5 for high value placement and let the rest go. This is the maximum amount of overexposure I can use and still retain textures in the high values, the upper limit. When I get very confused, I just meter the gray card and expose.

As far as development goes, with B&W there are other considerations which come into play when dealing with print contrast and filters. This is a whole other subject. tim

P.S. I will try the links at work. My computer is old, my software as well.