Knife Photographs

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Terrill

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Well guys, it sounds like a lot of you are doing our own photo's with digital cameras. Personally I would want all of you to send them to the studio but I guess I can't get everyone. So I would like to do a guick survey.
I know that to print out a digital image you guys aren't going out to spend $5000 on a thermal printer and I also know that ink & bubble jet printers just won't make it. I have another photographer that made the plunge and purchased a printer. Would there be a market for her to make prints for those of you with digital cameras? She was thinking of the lines of $10 for one 8x10 or 2 5x7's plus postage. You could e-mail the image files to her directly.
First, is there that much of a need? Second, are her prices in line?
Thanks
The rest of you can remember that my camera and I are always here.
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For images from any commercial quality digital camera, an inkjet is completely adequate. Look for more inks rather than more dots per inch. If anyone wants the technical explanation, email me; if not, just take my word, I had an electrical engineering professor who holds a few patents in that area, and more inks are king. Commercial digital cameras don't have anywhere near the pixels of standard film (even expensive digital cameras tend to have less than 2 million, whereas a standard 35mm negative has around 20 million), so film will take the cake until someone thinks up some really inventive bit of electronics.

As always, GIGO (garbage-in, garbage-out) applies... if you print a bad image on a very good printer, it will just look very accurately bad. Sorry, but I hate to see people waste lots of money on a digital camera that will absolutely not perform better than a $30 35mm. If the added features (retouching, instant images, web use) of the digital are more important to you than image quality, the digital is for you. If you want image quality, go film.

--JB

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Straight answer to a straight question. No I don't think I'd have a need for that service - at least not often. I use film for quality and digital for convenience. You can convert quality to convenience but it doesn't work so well in reverse.

Yes, if I had the need that price would be in line with what I would expect to pay.



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Rob Ridley
Ranger Original Handcrafted Knives
 
Thanks for the input gentlemen. I agree with you all.
Of course being a photographer, I prefer film and the bigger the negative the better. I have always used a 4x5 camera with a roll film back when shooting knives. You can't beat the tilts. But no matter what we say there will always be those that are "do-it-yourself" people and I was just trying to help them and another photographer out.
I appreciate your opinions.
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