[filmscanners] RE: Polaroid 120 opinions

["Kapetanakis, Constantine" <KAPETAC@polaroid.com>]

I will forward this question to a Polaroid engineer who developed all film 
recorder look-up tables and is still with around. He is out of the country 
traveling but will be back in a week or so. 

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk 
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Kapetanakis, Constantine 
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Polaroid 120 opinions

Thanks for this information; it is stuff that I was not aware of and will check 
out.

----Original Message----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:38 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Polaroid 120 opinions

> Laurie Solomon wrote:
> 
>> I would also be interested in locating and re-establishing contact 
>> with David - especially concerning the Polaroid Film Recorder that I 
>> have and how one might get or create new lookup files for it that are 
>> dedicated to handling today's batch of films.  However, I think that 
>> he dropped out of sight deliberately after leaving Polaroid.  My 
>> impression was that he was getting sort of feed up with Polaroid's 
>> policies and practices vis-à-vis its customers and employees.
>> 
>> 
> I've two of the Polaroid 7000 film recorders (I'm a 3D photographer, I 
> do things in matched pairs).  Although I find it's older Provia 
> profile to be "adequate" with Provia 100F, I'm in the process of 
> tweaking it a tiny bit.  May "work" on other films if I find a need 
> for it.
> 
> Although there are more than one way to "work" on the profiles, one 
> way is to use the 'CFR Film Table Commander'
> software (www.cfrfilmtables.com).
> It's only appropriate for those two Polaroid model families, but 
> provides ways of fully manipulating the profiles, and provides a 
> method to at least provide neutral neutrals at various brightness 
> levels.  It can be downloaded and "played"
> with for free.  That version just doesn't save files :-(.
> 
> If your Polaroid Film Recorder is of either the 7000 or 8000 series  
> and you don't already "belong", you might think about joining the 
> Yahoo group for 7k/8K polaroid film recorders.  A generally quiet 
> group, but it does have "bursts"
> whenever someone
> starts something.  That group's name is "FilmRecorders" .
> 
> Mike K.
> 
> 
> 
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