YAAAY PICCIES!

[HuBBaTheMan]

FINALLY i manage to get me a good scanner (Epson V500 for those who wonder) and at last am able to scan the film i shoot with my Mamiya 645 AFD. Very happy so far with the workflow and the quality. Sure it's a bit more dust & scratches to remove but hey, it's just a few extra minutes most of the time.

And this baby scans up to 9600 DPI. If a client ever requests that i will seriously consider slapping them

Anyway, enough babbling, here is the picture. Model is Alexzandra Idh, makeup by Nina Möller / Fröken Fatale. Film was Fuji Reala.

[sean_buerger]

Hi there,

this appears to be a very good scanner. Your Mamiya takes very sharp pictures. I downloaded your picture and had a look at the highlights, and find that you've blown out highlights (side lighting). I presume that this is on purpose.

However bringing down the highlights in your picture reveals (probably) too much skin detail in the models face

Cheers, Sean.

[HuBBaTheMan]

Hey Sean =) yepp. lets call it intentional

Nah, to be entirely honest, im still learning the scanner (and relearning shooting with the mamiya This was a test roll from a shoot that was done in its entirely digital with a canon 40D, but inbetween using the 40D for the finished shots, i grabbed the mamiya and did some experimenting and some of the frames are a tad overexposed until i got it right.

Its quite nice workflow though for me, a roll of film including processing & a contact sheet is about $20-25 (€15) and i can now definately do the scanning myself. So, shoot a roll, get it developed in a few days, get the contact & negatives and scan away.

Sure, i'd love a digital back, but i need to rob more banks first

[SecondFocus]

Looks great! And unless you have clients paying the way for you, you can buy a lot of film and processing for the price of a digital back.

[HuBBaTheMan]

Thanx. And of course, if you have clients paying the way you always have the option of renting one for the job and billing that cost to the client.

Now i just need to get clients who worry about resolution so much they demand medium format. They are not common around me unfortunately, everone is just happy with normal DSLR quality.