Lumière d’Argent

The picture above was taken with Rollei SuperPan 200. actually it was Universal 200, but Universal was SuperPan rebadged and sold cheaper. This film is the 200 ISO version of the Rollei Retro 400s (400 ISO) and Retro 80s (80 ISO). Those three films are Agfa films originally designed for aerial photography. To that purpose, they feature high definition, reasonably fine grain (no T-Max like, more APX-like) and spectral sensitivity that goes well into the infra-red.  Some use the SuperPan as an infrared film with the appropriate filter. Without going to that length, I took the above picture with a red 25 filter. Combined with the infrared sensitivity, this cuts through haze like I had never experienced before. Excellent landscape film!

Stephane :: Oct.19.2009 :: Film, Photography :: No Comments »

I added a new gallery, with what I did in 2008.

Stephane :: Oct.19.2009 :: Photography, Pictures :: No Comments »

I have printed with an Epson R2400 for the last four years. Yesterday, it stopped working. When switched on, it makes a very brief noise and then the paper feed and ink buttons leds start to blink. Searching the Internet, it turns out it is most probably the wasted ink tank that’s full.

But wait a minute. I installed an external wasted ink tank specifically to avoid this to happen. Yes, but the printer has no way to determine the actual level in the tank, so its internal software counts the (milli)liters of ink it sends there and after a fixed quantity decides it is game over. There is software that allows to reset that counter, but it does not seem to work, apparently the printer is not responding. So that failure was actually programmed in the printer. It is not a bug, it is a feature…

I have left a message on Epson technical support web site, we’ll see.

Stephane :: Oct.14.2009 :: Gear, Printing :: 1 Comment »