Experiments with film

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

I’m experimenting with dad’s Nikon F70—he doesn’t use it anymore now that he has a digital. The lens on this camera is amazing. I’d love to have something like this with a digital camera. The lens has its own CPU!

Dad’s camera bag had two unused rolls expired November 2003 that I’m using for my test shoots. Does anyone know where I can get negatives scanned in Bangalore? Anyone with a drum scanner? And any idea how much it costs?

kalyan — Apr 27, 2004 5:45:30 PM — # ↩

All new lens come with CPU on them
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 28, 2004 1:23:09 AM — # ↩
  
  I come from non-SLR land with teeny bumps of lenses that live within the camera body. That they have their own brains is hard to believe.
pinkheartred — Apr 27, 2004 11:11:17 PM — # ↩

hey i stumbled on your lj, want to be friends? peace
-Amy
dhempe — Apr 28, 2004 4:14:22 AM — # ↩

>>Does anyone know where I can get negatives scanned in Bangalore? Anyone with a drum scanner? And any idea how much it costs?

Maybe GK vale can help you with this? They are quite advanced in photographic equipment.
- sunson — Apr 28, 2004 7:19:54 AM — # ↩
  
  one of my friends uses kodak's service. I haven't seen the results my self. But this is what I hear you get:
  
  1. Film is scanned and given on a "Kodak PhotoCD"
  2. postcard-sized prints of all the photos (i think more than one copy - not sure)
  3. a free film roll
  
  all this works out to somewhere under Rs.300ish
thaths — Apr 28, 2004 4:34:17 AM — # ↩

I’m experimenting with dad’s Nikon F70—he doesn’t use it anymore now that he has a digital. The lens on this camera is amazing. I’d love to have something like this with a digital camera. The lens has its own CPU!

You can use those lenses with a digital. You need a D70.

Does anyone know where I can get negatives scanned in Bangalore? Anyone with a drum scanner? And any idea how much it costs?

Prabhu's Digital Imaging on a small street off of Brigade road is the place you are looking for. They don't have a drum scanner. But they have tons of Nikon film scanners and some great Macs to ogle at. The costs work out better if you scan the entire roll of film post processing before cutting. For some reason, the guy charges by tif image size instead of by scan resolution in dpi.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 28, 2004 6:30:08 AM — # ↩
  
  Any idea how much a D70 body (without lens) would cost?
  - kalyan — Apr 28, 2004 8:12:53 AM — # ↩
    
    $999 in the US. It costs about 70k here in india with warrenty. You can buy it for 45k here without bill and warrenty
    - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 29, 2004 9:02:42 AM — # ↩
      
      Where in Bangalore? Or JJ Mehta/Bombay only?
      - kalyan — Apr 29, 2004 9:15:00 AM — # ↩
        
        There is this guy named anand in barma bazaar. He has all the models and get all the cameras for the US price.. and this guy even gives a one week warrenty. If you wanna go , I can take you there
        
        Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 29, 2004 12:56:09 PM — # ↩
        
        No money. :-(
shoan — Apr 29, 2004 4:11:44 PM — # ↩

There is a studio in J.P.Nagar 3rd Phase which does negative scanning. Pretty friendly guys running the place.