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Photography/Photoshop tips and tricks?
jmecklenborg:
Yeah, don't screw around with E-6 in a home Jobo processor, from what I hear. I did develop C-41 with one of those and it was quick and easy, but I don't think the results were as good as a pro lab. I never did a side-by-side though.
Robert Pence:
It was about 1970 that I processed some 35mm Ektachrome that I shot on a trip to Mackinac Island, and I think the process then was E3. I bought a Kodak half-gallon kit, just enough for the five rolls I had. I used a Nikor tank that I loaded in a dark closet, and my lab was the kitchen. I started by mixing the solutions - maybe ten steps in all - and standing the containers in a cooler chest filled just to their tops with warm water that I kept checking and replenishing to maintain 80 degrees F. It took about an hour to get everything stabilized so it would hold that temperature long enough. If I remember correctly, the color developer was the fussiest step; it had to be maintained at 80F, plus or minus 1/2 degree, for ten minutes. Between agitations, I let the Nikor tank rest in the water in the cooler chest. The preparation of chemicals and processing of film took a whole evening well into the night.
The results looked just as good as any I got back from Kodak, and held up well for quite a few years. I haven't looked at them in a while; if I can locate them readily I'll put them on my list to scan and post (if they're still worth looking at).
Rusty Shackleford:
I ran across this utility when I was looking for a way to modify the date stamp of a bunch of images that I took with an erroneous setting of the month part of the date. (I messed up the camera's time setting.)
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
It's *free*. The company that distributes it has a PC backup program that is their real money maker.
Here is a screen shot from the web site. It gives you the idea. For example, you can replace like named strings in file names with a different string, or you can institute your own numbering pattern of a group of files.
smith:
Does anyone use the photo editing software Aperture? Thoughts on it?
MayDay:
^I don't use it but I've heard good things about it - from what I can tell, it works as a lighter version of Adobe Bridge and Photoshop Elements.
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