What a weekend. Now I remember another reason I sold my F280 so many moons
ago - how we have came full circle!!!
We spent another (long) weekend in a science fiction convention. Lots of
opportunity to take pictures of costumers. For the past year, I have been
relying on fast primes but I still have to use ASA400 and sometimes ASA800
to get reasonable shutter speeds so I thought I will give the newly
acquired F280 a try.
Some are good, but a good number has the full on flash symptom - e.g. the
area immediately in front of the flash is a bit burned out. I will have to
dig up the last reply to my flash inquiry now. I guess I will have to get a
bracket and another flash. I was hoping that I can stay "light." sigh. What
gets me is that pictures from my wife's C-3000 came out more evenly
illuminated. grr...
I also took the two rolls of film to the beta Applied Science Fiction's
DigiPIC station. It's the scan-and-destroy-your-negatives machine. It was
quite a gamble to try it (eekkk no more negatives) but I knew that even at
the best, most pictures will not benefit from scanning at higher res myself
than what they claim they can do. On the whole it is a reasonable
experience. The price is competitive with the price that I normally pay. A
few dollars more but I get the pics in digital form (of course again you
ONLY get the pics in digital forms). The built-in dye-sub printer is fast
and the results look pretty good. The pictures look a bit more grainy when
blown up, but it probably is just an artifact of Kodak Gold 100 vs. what I
usually shoot, which is Provia 100F or 400F. I have one roll Fuji Superia
800 that was accidentally exposed at ASA1600 :-( and a good number of the
pictures are half usable, especially for web display. I don't know if ASF
will market the machines or not as this is only a trail period. Give it a
shot if you have access to one.
Also picked up the MF prints. Ah, definitely some shot are lost due to my
inexperience w/ the MF rangefinder, but the pics look oh so good, even at
4x6.... Nice.
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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