Ur-Q photos...

[JustaxPHX@aol.com]

Over the past year or so, my interest in photography has slowly been
rekindled.  One of the things I've been taking photos of lately has been my
'85 Ur-Q, mostly because it isn't running at the moment and quite frankly,
there isn't much else that I can do with it otherwise in its present state.

Most are of the close-up detail variety (see
http://www.mindspring.com/~audidudi/HTML/UrQ/Collectible.htm for a rough idea
of what I mean) and since I shot them with medium- and large-format cameras
instead of 35mm, having really large prints made from them isn't a problem.
In fact, I recently had two printed, one at 20"x20" and another at 20"x30",
both of which turned out remarkably well, and I suspect I could even go up as
large as 40"x50" without suffering *too* much loss of image quality.

Which got me wondering: Is there enough interest in something like this from
other Ur-Q owners to make it worthwhile for me to offer copies of these for
sale?  I'm not a professional photographer by any means but I'm pretty
critical of my work, at least these days (please don't judge me by the photos
posted at my old web site!), and everyone gets lucky now and then if you burn
enough film...   

I know it would be easier to answer if you could actually see what I've done
so far but I'm afraid my film scanner doesn't accept anything but 35mm
transparencies and I haven't yet had any reason to pay to have them scanned
professionally ... I also can't give you any idea of price other than to say
that Ilfochrome prints at this size and done by a pro lab aren't exactly
cheap.  However, it may be possible to keep the costs done by printing them in
bulk and/or printing them from a digital source instead of the original film
... if there's enough interest, then I'll definitely look into this further.

If this might be something of interest to you, please let me know; and if it's
the stupidest idea you've ever heard of, then I guess I'd like to hear that,
too.

Jeff Goggin (aka "audi-dudi")