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Shelby Lewis
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This whole post will be a big yawn to most here.
As most here know, I just moved to MF digital less than a month back. Shooting a 28mp Aptus II 6 on the mamiya 645 platform (afd iii).
Well, as I had mentioned in the printing forum about 6 months ago, I was GIVEN an Epson 7800 from a client who had one that was basically unused. They didn't have a lot of money for an upcoming shoot and offered to give it to me as part of my payment. Luckily it had been stored in a pretty humid environ and I was able to get it up and running in a week's time.
Well it sat for another 6 months during the first semester here at LSU... but a few weeks ago I bought some trial rolls of Breathing Color Chromata White and Lyve, their top end canvases with no OBAs.
I spent the entire evening tonight getting the 7800 running again... loaded up a trial roll of Chromata and then worked up these two images for print:
Printed them at native size (roughly 17x21 @ 240dpi)...
All I can say is HOLY COW! Even printed on canvas, which isn't an inherently sharp medium, the images have a presence I've not seen before in my work. Sharp. Lot's of tonality. Just beautiful. I'm sure the 7800 helps the wow factor as well. I do have some gamut problems... and I didn't soft-proof the images (duh!)
I really can't wait to get some more carefully shot images into the printer... and Dante tells me that the new Epsons are substantially better. :ROTFL:
As most here know, I just moved to MF digital less than a month back. Shooting a 28mp Aptus II 6 on the mamiya 645 platform (afd iii).
Well, as I had mentioned in the printing forum about 6 months ago, I was GIVEN an Epson 7800 from a client who had one that was basically unused. They didn't have a lot of money for an upcoming shoot and offered to give it to me as part of my payment. Luckily it had been stored in a pretty humid environ and I was able to get it up and running in a week's time.
Well it sat for another 6 months during the first semester here at LSU... but a few weeks ago I bought some trial rolls of Breathing Color Chromata White and Lyve, their top end canvases with no OBAs.
I spent the entire evening tonight getting the 7800 running again... loaded up a trial roll of Chromata and then worked up these two images for print:
Printed them at native size (roughly 17x21 @ 240dpi)...
All I can say is HOLY COW! Even printed on canvas, which isn't an inherently sharp medium, the images have a presence I've not seen before in my work. Sharp. Lot's of tonality. Just beautiful. I'm sure the 7800 helps the wow factor as well. I do have some gamut problems... and I didn't soft-proof the images (duh!)
I really can't wait to get some more carefully shot images into the printer... and Dante tells me that the new Epsons are substantially better. :ROTFL: