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nephoto · #11 10-20-2005, 06:09 PM

Ya I am in the same boat as Blinking, camera gear + school is breaking me but I am loving it so I don't care all that much. They just instituted into the program this year that each of the 16 photojournalism students in 2nd year are provided with a PB + software with the option to buy at the end of the year for a relatively low price considering the amount of editing software that comes with it. Before this year it was PC laptops, so moving into the program now is a plus. And then of course there is always access to the Mac Lab with all the g5's and what not, but I can't carry one of those around.

**Joe[y]**+ · #12 10-20-2005, 06:13 PM

hopefully soon i'll be at uni - all the unis i've visited so far are packed with 20inches or more screens and g5 powermacs with massive A1 printers, amazing pro negative scanners and even colour film processors - that'll probably do me fine.

**blinking8s**+ · #13 10-20-2005, 07:13 PM

neg scanners *puke*

i cant STAND scanning my negs, i swear its the most tedious process ever

**Joe[y]**+ · #14 10-20-2005, 08:29 PM

but it can be useful. i agree though - i much prefer a darkroom.

mikelangelo · #15 10-20-2005, 08:45 PM

My university is all PC... blah. boooOOOOoooring. No fancy flat screens or nuthin'.

Why is scanning negs so sucky? It's not similar to scanning developed photos? (obviously, I've never done it before.)

**Joe[y]**+ · #16 10-20-2005, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mikelangelo

My university is all PC... blah. boooOOOOoooring. No fancy flat screens or nuthin'.

Why is scanning negs so sucky? It's not similar to scanning developed photos? (obviously, I've never done it before.)

yes. but in more detail really.

the professional scanners i saw today literally scan the negatives from every side and produce images much better than any digital camera can produce.

**blinking8s**+ · #17 10-20-2005, 11:24 PM

i've used about ever neg scanner made thats in the current tech linup, its just crummy working with 60mb 4000dpi scanned images and such, they suck worse for black and white too, always picking up dust and just being picky, increasing grain count...darkroom prints will always be 10x greater

and the process is slow, very slow

**Joe[y]**+ · #18 10-21-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by blinking8s

i've used about ever neg scanner made thats in the current tech linup, its just crummy working with 60mb 4000dpi scanned images and such, they suck worse for black and white too, always picking up dust and just being picky, increasing grain count...darkroom prints will always be 10x greater

and the process is slow, very slow

i didn't have this problem when playing around yesterday. sure the images were around 60 megs but the mac i was using had no problem. and dust wasn't much of a problem actually (just make sure you keep them packed up tight.) i can honestly say i've never seen a better image from a digital camera.

**blinking8s**+ · #19 10-21-2005, 09:24 PM

apertures student price isnt too bad

wait till those scanners get some insane use, i have no dust on my negs, its all in the scanner from the other 100 or so students that use them each day

fotogram · #20 10-24-2005, 11:19 PM

For me Aperture would cost approx $3,000. $500 for Aperture and the rest for a machine that can run it

. I was all excited, but when I read the system requirements, I realized that my G4 (1GHz/1GB RAM) will not run Aperture.

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