Bright"s" & Darkness

 After I took the below photo, the film of this photo was developed by professional processing lab. Then I applied film scanning with EPSON GT-F600 to get this view. So the process is partially analogue and partically digital.

 Then I'm purchasing gradually the various parts to estimate own darkroom to implement own development of film and printing into photographic paper. Especially I'm very interested in the own developping and printing for black&white photography.
 If I purchase all new equipments for the own darkroom, it must be expensive. But now seniror photo freaks in Japan is shifting from analogue into digital as other countries. Therefore they sell their equipments to photoshop as recycle usage or at Yahoo Auction and other auction sites. For example, I could get an enlarger, FUJI B690, which is one of very well-known for beginners. It is very old model. But fortunately I could find out almost new one with only about 95.00USD with FUJINON Lens for enlarging and nega carrier. I also try to buy used models of all other equipments and goods.
 I believe that I can start the developping of film and printing within this month. At first in next weekend, I try to make self-training to wind up film with the reel of developping tank.
.....Step by step.

 I will report the process of my training with photo in this blog.

Memory in Summer 2009

Green Impressionism, originally uploaded by Minochage.

In this summer, in Japan it was no so hot as normal case. But this photo taken in Narita-city let me remember the hot feeling. My living area, Funabashi-city in Chiba prefecture, Japan, is one of typical "Bed Town" for Tokyo. This means that it is not so easy to find out nature scene. By if I go to Narita City, just 30 to 40mins by train, fortunately easy to come across more nature scene

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Got Canon Pixus Pro9000

Purchased Canon PIXUS Pro9000.


Until now I've used only quite conventional Ink-Jet Printer Only.
The printer, Canon PIXUS Pro9000, was released in 2005 or 2006 in my recognition.
It is not really new. But I was quite surprised at the printing quality.
Follow Photo show the printed result,which view is same as that in the previous article, "Gliding duck on Shinobazu pond".

In follow photo you may think that the printed result is more "Reddish" than the original photo. The reason is that the printed matter is set under the room light.
The room light affect the color on the printed result. The actual printed color
is more similar into original color on PC screen if you see under sun light.

According to a lot of writings by other bloggers, PIXUS Pro9000 is especially fine tuned for Canon EOS series. Normally color management is not so easy for the amateur like me to adjust color between computer screen and actual printed result. But when I printed out with the soft wares from Canon, Digital Photo Professional and Easy Photoprint Pro, I couldn't see the different almost nothing!

I agree that PIXUS Pro9000 is not cheap. But I recommend the printer to Canon EOS users for easy color management and extremely high printing quality.

My next target is to buy a wide-angle lens of TOKINA or Canon EF at the end of this year, although I need high level negotiation with my wife.