Mark Lindquist
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in reply to: Film, I Just Don’t Get It #83339Film, I Just Don’t Get Iton: September 17, 2023 at 7:47 am
As an artist (sculptor) working in New England in the 60’s through 80’s, I look back on the most incredible time of color 8×10 chromes and the professional film studio. A photographer in Manchester, NH had a massive studio above a restaurant he owned in one of the buildings on the river – an old brick mill building. Each sculpture carefully placed in the designated spot on the CYC, huge Chimera soft boxes nearly floor to ceiling, then sock-footed making careful adjustments. Sit in this chair Mark, let me work. Jane, how about sending down for an order of cappuccino and croissants. Big 8×10 view camera on rolling studio stand. Glowing modeling lights, reflectors and flags – kack. Enjoying coffee, sitting in a rolling wingback chair, an 8×10 color polaroid was handed to me and all of our eyes grew wide. The magic and mystique of film, the ambience and lure of the studio. The utter crushing brilliance of an image flattering it’s subject. Rush off down two floors to the custom color lab, where eventually came back the chromes – 8×10 color film transparencies lit up by the light table.
Film. Mystique. Romance.
Film era. Bygone time. Film is dead… no, wait. I don’t want to be back in our black and white darkroom listening to vinyl albums washing prints in Fred Picker’s Zone VI archival film washer, only to have to hang those prints to dry then eventually press them to flatten. Process. Steps requiring fastidiousness all along the way. But… those prints still hold fast today, just as when printed nearly 50 years ago.
But now, really? Nah. Been there, done that. Phooey.
Photography
Film | Digital
Live | Let live
in reply to: Evaluating the HP Z9+ 24 inch printer #9637Re: Evaluating the HP Z9+ 24 inch printerReply #1 on: October 22, 2019 at 6:41 pmHere is the next in my series on the HP Z9+ printer.
The link for the video is now: (video needed a slight edit)
https://youtu.be/0vDan9IjtygThis video is a simple overview – doesn’t get into the nuts and bolts on this one – that will come in an overall review.
Hope you will find this interesting.
Mark
in reply to: New series Epson Printers! #8440Re: New series Epson Printers!Reply #2 on: October 1, 2019 at 4:56 pmThose things are both built like tanks. About time Epson fixed the black ink switching thing.
Should be great printers.
in reply to: HP DesignJet Z9+ 24" Unboxing and Setup video #5442Re: HP DesignJet Z9+ 24" Unboxing and Setup videoReply #3 on: August 8, 2019 at 8:52 pmWell done Mark. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Kevin – as you know, I’ve long been an advocate of the HP Z3200ps printer. I have 5 of them and now the new Z9+ that HP Barcelona sent me to test and use.
Seems strange to have a printer that for all intents and purposes does everything the Z3200 does but at 2-1/2 times the speed.
I’ve been working with HP to encourage them to upgrade the spectrophotometer capabilities in the color center of the Utility so that similar to the Z3200, it could be used to make extended patch target profiles. At this point, I have a 10,455 patch target ICC profile made by Mark McCormick and printed by me for both the Z9+ and the Z3200ps 44″. Makes all the difference in the world. Finally some real control over printing. I used to think the Atkinson 1728 was the best. Now it’s a starting point.
We’ll see what HP does in the future with the Z9+. Thinking back to the Z3100 that Michael Reichman began using and made a video about, the Z Series has come a very long way, and still to this day, the Vivera inkset holds best in class ratings. I believe the Z9+ Vivid inkset and the dual droplet delivery will also come out tops in test results.
-Mark
in reply to: Hewlett-Packard printers #3359Re: Hewlett-Packard printersReply #4 on: July 13, 2019 at 10:23 pmThanks for adding HP to the list of printers Chris –
Mark
in reply to: Welcome to the 'Papers & Media' Forum #3242Re: Welcome to the 'Papers & Media' ForumReply #5 on: July 12, 2019 at 4:06 pmA fitting second post:
MEDIA MATTERS by Aardenburg Imaging
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in reply to: Welcome From Kevin #3023Re: Welcome From KevinReply #6 on: July 10, 2019 at 7:56 pmFantastic it’s up and running Kevin! Good luck with the new site, and thank goodness it’s here. Now.
Best,
Mark Lindquist
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