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Thank you for your speedy response. Normally, my Nikon D50 (6.1mb) delivers good quality images when printed at A4 and, the colour saturation when printed is very rich. However, I have an opportunity to exhibit some images at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and, in addition another exhibition at " Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering. I now realize, that in view of the requirement of larger image presentation in a gallery environment, I need to step up, with a new camera body that will provide a much higher resolution, per your very kind analysis. I noticed a number of floral images, in your web site gallery which, look stunning. I have an eclectic range of images, mostly on a travel theme.
Worth working my way around this site. Well put together.
Thank you for a fascinating and informative web site. Have enjoyed viewing your photos and learning more about digital.
Very informative and user friendly site. I have been having little success trying to produce a duotone effect from B and W images, your article on this subject gratefully received. Now I can have another go! Thanks.
I must congratulate you on a fine website. There is much to see and enjoy, and much to learn about photography here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - and not a single advert or banner to be seen.
I looked every day your photo galleries . There is so much pure beauty in almost every photo .I saw a Matthew Felton photogallery, using Windows Media Player , with an incredible melody. You are no humans... my dear far friends! If someone can chose and make these photos, the person is a romantic ,with a huge heart!You are wondeful , and bring tothe others , peace and beautiful. I think maybe in heaven is nicer ! Thank you !
Happy birthday Ronnie Verrell who would have been 80 today.
I must confuses your site is really cool!!! Great site, great idea, just all round great work, everyone.
A great site where one can enjoy the thought of a great mind long departed. Cheers for the good work!
Hi. You have very nice website! Beautiful design and very interesting content.
Nice site.
Got the site address from a book (How Digital Photography Works) by Ron White. Enjoyed your article and animation on Raleigh limits and Airy discs. Heavy stuff. Don't have a firm grip on it yet but I am working on it. Good and interesting site. I will be back.
Great web site I use to be a member of you'r club a few year's ago, but then moved location. I am now a member of kingston camera club but still think of you all. You have a very interesting digital section which I think our club is lacking. I hope both clubs meet one day All the best for the future Richard
excellent
a great site with clear,plain, easy to understand explanation of photography terms. I found the "depth of field" and apertures explanations very helpful. thanks
Great to visit your site but very sad to see the death of a very old friend of mine Ronnie Verrell For many years I looked after his cars from my Garage in Kingston and also spent many nights over at Stoneleigh enjoying his solo's. We are all getting older and must all go some time but I will always remember him with effection
Hello Sid. While using Google to find a diagram of a digital camera, I came across your site. I soon became sidetracked into being absorbed by it! Absolutely fascinating, and thank you for your effort.
I wanna thank you for the great amount of information that was on this site. it really help me futher in my research. thanks
Very pleasing gallery and useful site.
Great site....picked up a few hints ta! Jan
Very informative site, for one starting out in digital photography. One should not get bogged down in technicalities, but enjoy one's photography
A great Site. Lots of interesting and informative reading. I've downloaded the Sibelius 3 crit. There are some answers in there that I have been looking for desperately. Loved the articles about the old bands. It sort of fills in your knowledge of our profession and the evolution of the big bands. Please have a look at our website. www.myjo.co.uk (The Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra)which shows how we are trying to follow in a great tradition. Many thanks for taking the time to set up this website John Ruddick
Hi Sid - very impressed, not only with your photography, but also your presentation of it on your website. Very tastefull and nicely done. Also liked your informative articles. When and if I ever get my own website up and operational, and I would be pleased to add a link to your site. I look forward to more galleries of your work in the future. Keep up the good work.
Hi Sid, I enjoyed your workshop on Colour management in Photoshop CS, very informative to a 70 year old new enthusiast to digital printing. I wanted to keep the article for future reference but the left hand side cuts off. is there any way round this problem? Regards, Godfrey Hayes.
Very interesting and informative although one think's they are on the ball it is good to see the methods laid out in a clear and coherant manner.
I am very impressed by the website you set up/did for David Cordey. One of the best I've seen - clear, quick and full of info. Great pics too. If I ever need a website setting up, I now know who to ask. As I'm not a webby, I prefer easy, informative sites, where it is obvious where to click the button etc - sounds mad, but I give up using some sites, they are just too clever for their own good, and show the site builders skill, and wizzardry, first and foremost, rather than being user friendly, and providing easy access to the info I wish to look at.
Great images and tips ,will check in often . Thanks for showing Tedd www.teddchurch.com
Have enjoyed your site and its offshoots. My own Camera Club (Old Coulsdon Camera Club) is currently trying to work out/develop a club web site, and appreciate keenly what other clubs like Photocraft are already doing and accomplishing.
worked with ronnie on numerous occasions and will never forget him!!
Great site. A lot of helpful hints for those uf us starting out. Seeing as you know photoshop I have a question for you. When I take photos from my digital camera, resize them to 4 X 5 @ 600 dpi and print them out they are grainy. Are there settings I can adjust to change this? (is this what I"ve heard called diffusion dither?)I do not have the options to select paper type and print quality like you have on your website, but I don't get those options on my Mac for my HP psc1210 printer which has printed great photos for me from less complex programs like iPhoto. Any help is appreciated, as I have a bunch of wedding photos to print off for a family member and they look terrible....
Just looking for details about the Epson Perfection 2450 to see if it would work for me scanning old B&W negatives (3.5x6) taken by my grandparents in the early 20th Century. I have several hundred of them and getting reprints is almost impossible nowadays. I'm also hoping it might work on Civil War-era ambrotypes. Thanks for providing some useful information!
I was looking for information on high quality scanners and came across your very interesting site. I will probably invest in a Perfection 2450 as I have loads of transparencies going back 40 odd years. They reside unseen and deserve better! Your site offers much helpful advice. Many thanks.
Outstanding site- very well put together
Found your site worth the visit. Am an amateur-photographer, using Nikon 801S, and since june in possession of a Coolpix 5700. Looking around for all sort of info that will help me further in discovering the many possibilities of digital photography. Gerrit.
Thanks for your article and thoughts. I have just purchased my Epson 2400 and am really an amateur, with little experience. I needed a scanner that would handle slides, transparencies as well as old family photos up to 100 years old in a range of sizes. Unfortunately my computer operates on SP and so is not Java enabled so some images were unable to be displayed. I have tried to find and download programmes so that I could view these images, but so far without success. Still, it gave me much to think about. Lyn
JUST FOUND SITE, USFULL INFO FOR ME, AFTER 30 YEARS PRINTING MY PORTRAITS ON AN ENLARGER, THIS YEAR I DECIDED TO TRY DIGITAL,I NOW HAVE 2 ENLARGERS SURPLUS TO REQUIRMENTS AND MORE TIME TO MYSELF AS THE STAFF CAN NOW PRINT IN THE STUDIO ALSO NO SPOTTING IS REQUIRED.THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO ON DIGITAL MATTERS.
I just got an Epson Perfection 2450 and couldn’t figure out how to get it to NOT crop my 120 film negatives. After reading your first page I got it to work. Thank you so much for the valuable information that even Epson could not provide for me!
Well; At last some neat stuff about Film Scanners etc... Found it well done, Not rare:)'
I loved your pictures of Dinan. This is one of my wifes and my favourite towns in France.
I was reccommended to your site, and am just starting to learn about digital photography(and computers!) and will be back for more!
I was reccommended to your site, and am just starting to learn about digital photography(and computers!) and will be back for more!
Thank you for your informative article on scanning negatives with the Epson 2450 scanner. I recently purchased a Nikon N65 and was looking for a reasonable alternative to a dedicated film scanner for ocassional scanning of 35 mm negatives. Oddly enough, few retailers seem to have them in stock right now. I suspect they are about to change models.
I have nothing but high praise for your site!!! As I write this commentary I'm printing your info on Monochrome printing. Thanks!!!! Nancy
I was thinking of buying an Epson 2450 scanner with particular interest in scanning 35mm positives from family archives so your review was bang on target. The photo scan comparisons and analysis were excellent.
I am considering purchasing an Epson 2400 flatbed scanner shortly-primarily for scanning 35MM slides. I found your your evaluation of the Epson 2450 informative. Have you had an opportunity to test the Epson 2400? If you or any else has I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks.
thank you' lovely site. i enjoyed the pics. and the tech info.
Seeing your work makes me realise I've go a long way to go. Mike S
You have a great and informative site. It makes digital imaging a lot more fun and vastly more rewarding when you can learn from others and avoid the steep learning curve of trial and error. I prefer the wet process and still do most of my serious work in black and white but this digital stuff is terrific fun. I guess it's the instant gratification that makes it so. While spending the summer in 1959, at our property in the Sierra, I happened across a man with a big tripod and camera, who was photographing a burnt out cedar on our property. I asked if he would't rather photograph one of our waterfalls as it was early summer and the water was still roaring over them from a large snowpack that winter. I told him that I had always wanted to learn photography but my music study took most of my free time. Boy! did he get excited. He told me that he too studied the piano and was headed for a professional career when he discovered photography as a boy on vacation in yosomite. We spent the next few hours, talking music and him teaching me how to see a photograph in the most mundane,[to me] subject. When was leaving he apologized for trespassing and I said he could come back anytime and thanked him for the inspiration about photography and that I probably would start learning about it and go and buy a camera soon, thanks to him. He then wrote his name and phone number on a piece of paper and said if he could help to give him a call anytime. The name on the paper was Ansel Adams and we remained friends until his death. That was my introduction to photography and it has been a lifelong obsession. Thank you for making a new part of it so accessible to digital neophytes like me. Sincerely, Denise Libby P.S. My website address is: knowitall@websitegalaxy.com
I really appreciated visting your website; the review of the Epson 2450 scanner is very helpful. This e-mail however is to enquire about how I might acquire a copy of the picture of Ilfracombe harbour. My wife and I, with 10 month old baby stayed in one of the hotels in this picture (upper story overlooking the ramp). We spent most of the night taking turns in the car park on the left with a crying/screaming baby, so other guests weren't woken up. Your picture brought back the beauty of Ilfracombe and that truly terrible night!! regards .. David
Very informative as ever, give us some more. HOWEVER-- printing cut off on right hand side of paper!--not my fault?
Just to say that I appreciate the work you have put into your site and the sharing of your views and experience. A fine piece of pro bono. I think I shall have a crack at the Epson 2450 for my Xpan negs. The Medium format alternatives are a quantum leap in price and in the context of the size of image I propose to print, seem disproportionately expensive by comparison. Have you tried scanning both ends of an Xpan frame through a standard 35mm film scanner and then "stitching" the images in Photoshop? This is the solution suggested to me by Hasselblad. Any thoughts on this? Thanks again for the site.
I read your recommendations on your web site, as I have recently purchased an Epson 1280 printer. It was very helpful in properly calibrating my monitor and I appreciate your suggestions. I will be experimenting with Colorlife paper, which I like a lot but have had problems getting the color just right. I noticed that Epson has a download file for that paper for a few printers, including the 1270. Do you know offhand if that would work equally well with the 1280? Thanks, Mark You must use the 2880 profile, which can be found on Epson's Downloads page for the 1280 printer. http://support.epson.com/ SM
Hi Ken, Thanks for your comments. I didn't realise there was a Sutton in USA. I'm glad you enjoyed some of the photos - and yes, they were all taken with my own fair hand. Many were taken in and around Sutton, but quite a lot were taken elsewhere in England, and some in France or other places in Europe. In some of the galleries the location may not always be very clear, but usually I have tried to indicate other place names. The photos on the home page are a mixture, but a couple, such as the boat are in England (south east coast). Sutton, Surrey is a borough of London, so it is quite a "built up" area. Incidentally, I tried to email this message to you, but it was returned "undeliverable" at the address you gave.
Hello from Sutton Massachusetts, USA. You have posted some beautiful photos. All yours? From your area of Sutton?
Dear Sid,
I knew Ronnie Verrall very well through my late husband Bobby Pratt. Bobby and Ron were good friends, when I received the e-mail I was so upset. I immediately sent a card to his wife Gloria. I love the page, it is very informative. Tina
Very interesting website. Superb photographs and useful information; technical and aesthetic. Just one observation, if I may. Why on earth did you not include some of Neville Dickie's jokes?
Hi Sid
Love the site and the Neville Dickie one too. Cracking programming with super look and feel.
Alan
First of all thank you very much for the great information on your site! I found it when I was looking for a color profile for my scanner "Epson Perfection 2450 Photo".
You have excellent descriptions and excellent display of compared results from the use of different equipment and techniques. I found your site with a Google search on Epson 2450.
Dean Wilson Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dear Sidney, You will have heard the sad news of Ronnie Verrell's death this morning. I am putting a tribute to Ron on my website and I wondered if you would give me permission to use your great shot of him in action. I would, of course, attribute the photo to you. Could you please let me know as soon as possible?
Regards, Ron
Hi Sydney I'm just completing my second reading of your articles, they are excellent-very informative. I am considering the purchase of the Epson 2450 scanner but I have to clarify one thing. The main purpose would be to scan Panoramic pictures done with a Widelux camera, the format is 24mm X 60mm .Do you see any problems with this ? would the pictures be cut at some point- this is the case when I try to scan with my Nikon coolscan 4000. Also , does the scanner have some kind of dust/scratch removal system ? Thank you for your help Rick
A gem of the internet,very informative,and a delight to visit.
Having just started out down the digital track with a nikon coolscan 3 (LS30 I believe)and an epson photo890 using photoshop 6 I found the site both well laid out and very informative thank you
ps I found it whilst searching with google for a cheaper supplier of epson cartriges than my local suppliers.
1 question I am having trouble printing mono on the 890 ( I also have a darkroom and the results are no where near as good as chemical printing)Are their specialist inks for mon printing compatible with the epson?
I am new to digital processing and have found your site very informative, particularly the colour management section. I have been wrestling with the problem of reproducing a 10x8 on Fuji satin paper (using a 1240u, Photosop 6, and a 1270 with Olmec 260gsm satin paper)without much success.
I went to school with Jeannie Lamb in Inverness in the 40's and 50's. Was thrilled to find a picture of her on your site.
Good site, nice look and feel and some good pictures too.
Thanks for letting me peek at your work on output screening. I am trying to better understand dithering and error diffusion. most of the definitions I have seen do not help. thank you, Alex