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Rangefinder Magazine
July 2004


Problems & Solutions

Please accompany your questions with a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish an immediate reply. Alternatively, you can e-mail me at: bhurter@rfpublishing.com.

From: April
DonnaNoodle1@aol.com

My daughter has a Nikon N55 she purchased in January. We have noticed a thin white line on some of her pictures. What causes this? I have enclosed an image so you can see the effect. It’s on every one of the prints we have taken with this camera. The film was developed at the Photo Center, where we purchased the camera.

Since the white line runs the length of the film and is parallel to the frame edge, I would say it’s a burr on the film pressure plate that is scoring the film. The other possibility is that the gate on the processor the Photo Center uses has some type of burr or obstruction that is scratching the film as it goes into the processor. The key is that the line runs the length of the film and is parallel to the frame edge. I would investigate both possibilities.

A while back I had a question come in regarding information on traditional bookbinding. I recently received an email with a lot of links to bookbinders and sites with technical specs on bookbinding. The Cardoza-James Binding Company (www.cardozajames.com/) offers up-to-date information on the many bindery services the company offers, as well as useful information designed to help complete a successful book project, whatever binding style is chosen. Some of the binding styles offered are case binding, sewn soft-cover binding, perfect binding and various forms of custom hand binding. The site also offers a number of bookbinding links.

The Book Arts Web: www.philobiblon.com
Knops Boekrestauratie: www.xs4all.nl/~knops/
The Red Eye: www.redmark.co.nz
Books A to Z: booksatoz.com
Rasch Graphic Services: www.raschgraphics.com

From: Tom Lee, FSWPP,
Vice President of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers
(www.kcphotographic.co.uk)

Email: tom@kcphotographic.co.uk
In an article by Gigi Clark in the WPPI newsletter (“Creativity and Simplicity, Part 2,” April 2004), the text mentions the use of metallic paper for printing but does not give the name of the material or the manufacturer. Is it possible to let me know, so I can carry out trials of the material here in the UK?

Digital metallic prints use new technology allowing photographic printing on a metallic paper base. Metallic prints produce saturated colors and a wide tonal range and render an entirely new life to regular digital images. Kodak Endura papers are metallic papers that work in all variations of the RA-4 process. Here’s a link you can go to for more information: www.kodak.com/global/en/professional /products/papers/endurametallic/main.jhtml .

From: Roy Holloway Sr.
rlhsh@earthlink.net

I am looking for a video/cd/dvd that gives detailed and easy-to-follow information to digital workflow from the Adobe Photoshop and/or the Nikon View/Capture software.

I would recommend Joe Photo’s DVD, Joe Photo Show and Tell, which was reviewed in last month’s “New Products” section (www.rangefindermag.com). You can also visit Joe’s web site (www.joephotoweddings.com). The DVD takes you through two weddings and two slide shows, and all the while Joe covers things like workflow, backup and the like—all in great detail. It’s well worth it.

 

We constantly get questions regarding the processing of old and outdated film, to which we invariably recommend Rocky Mountain Film Lab (www.rockymountainfilm.com). Find out more about Rocky Mountain Film Lab in the June issue of Focus on Imaging. Below is a partial list from Rocky Mountain Film’s web site of films the lab can process.

Still Camera Films
Kodacolor C22 Color Negative
Kodak Kodacolor, Kodacolor-X or Triple Print
Triple Print G25
Fotomat
AnscoColor
Color Print 64
Focal Color Print
Famous Brands
GAF Color Print
Mark IV, Mark V, or Mark VI
Process 22
ASA 80 (Minox)
E-4 Slide Films (also E-3, E-2)
Kodak 2236 Infrared
Ektachrome, Ektachrome-X, or EHB
High Speed Ektachrome
Agfachrome
Fotomat
GAF 64 Slide
Fuji R55 R100
ORWOchrom UT18 or UT21
K12 or K11 Slide Film
Kodachrome, Kodachrome-X, Kodachrome II and

Kodachrome F
Dynachrome
Infrared AR5
Infrared Film Process AR5
Disc Film
C41A (C-41A)
Black-and-white Film
Verichrome or Verichrome Pan
Panchromatic
Ansco All-Weather
Made in Belgium
Panatomic-X, Tech Pan
Konica pan and Konica Infrared
Kodak Hi Speed Infrared
Kodak Super XX, Tri-X, Tri-X Pan, Plus-X, Plus-X Pan
Ilford and Ilford extended range
ORWOpan NP21
Black and White films for slides
Brownie Film
Kodacolor or Kodacolor-X
Verichrome or Black and white
Verichrome or Black and white


Seattle Film Works, Signature
Color or ECN II Process
Seattle Film Works, Signature Color
5247, 5294 or 5297
Images LC-69 (LC69)
RGB, Kim Labs, Dale Labs
Foreign Films
ORWOcolor NC18, NC21, NF100
ORWOchrom UT18 or UT21, ORWOpan
NP21
C 41 Color Negative
Kodacolor II, 126 Kodacolor II
Disc Film
(Disk, process C41a)
Fujicolor II
Vericolor II S and L1a
Stereo Film
Processes K-14 and E-6
E-6 Films
Current Fujichrome and Ektachrome
films
K-14 Slide
Kodachrome 25, 64; no 120 film

Movie Films
Older Kodachrome Process K11/K12
Kodak Kodachrome or
Kodachrome-X
Kodachrome II
Dynachrome
Older Ektachrome Films
Kodak Ektachrome 160
Kodak Ektachrome 160 Type A
Kodak Ektachrome 160 Type G
Kodak Ektachrome 40
Focal Process EM25
Process ME4
EF 7241, EFB 7242, ECO 7252
Ektachrome SO185
MS, ES8
Ektachrome SM or
Ektachrome SMA
Black-and-white Films
Plus-X, Tri-X, 4X

 

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