My own photography seems to progress at a snail's pace between family life and making camera straps. To get from snapping the shutter to looking at a print involves a lot of steps. A lot of things to put in place.

This is my new 1946 Kodak Medalist II. One of Kodak's finest moments. I had it converted to 120 roll film since I hoped to be using it a lot and I didn't want to screw around with re-rolling 120 onto 620 spools. It's been fun to use but I wasn't totally sure what the results would be. I have 3 rolls shot but I've only scanned two frames (scanned on an Epson V700 with Vuescan and ColorPerfect). I've been tweaking the images and learning Photoshop Lightroom 3 at the same time. I reached the point where I needed to print them. This weekend I fired up my HP B9180 and Don's Epson 3800 and made prints. Another learning process figuring out printing from Lightroom 3. My HP will only print up to 13"x19" paper while Don's 3800 will print 17"x22" paper. I printed smaller prints on my HP and then fired up the 3800 to print 13"x20" prints. That was the final test. The results made all my work worthwhile. The Medalist lens is SHARP and the big prints are beautiful. I'm stoked! Now to scan the rest of the negatives. Larger versions of the 2 photos below are at: Kodak Medalist II. When you click on the thumbnail you will get a larger version. Above the upper right corner of the photo will be a magnifying glass with a plus sign. That makes it bigger.