A long time ago in 1988 I went to Africa...



I have been setting up my new office/darkroom during the past couple of rainy weeks. The newest part of my system is a new printer I purchased; an Epson R1800. The printer is quite remarkable. What I am able to print out in a matter of minutes would have taken me hours a few years ago. I dug out my old Nikon scanner, purchased new software to run it in OSX and started scanning and printing old stuff. I am amazed at the quality that a Macintosh G4 PowerBook, a Nikon LS-2000 scanner and the Epson R1800 printer can produce. The prints on par to the very best prints I was able to produce in a profession lab costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars. The prints are beautiful and the prints are guaranteed by Epson to last 80 to 100 years! Total cost of my current digital darkroom would be less than Six Grand total! I have been rummaging through my collection of photographs for something scan and test on the printer. I nearly forgot about the Africa trip. I am posting this photo because it was shot with Nikon F3 a Nikkor 300 2.8 manual focus lens. The Nikon scanner with new software copied the slide with all of detail and richness of the original transparency. The 13X19 print I made from the scan is beautiful. Click on "READ MORE" to see the entire photograph of the cheetah.


Posted: Sat - April 16, 2005 at 05:32 PM          

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