Richard, your scanner...do I read correctly that you can feed it a
whole slidefilm and go away? Is that in "roll-form" or mounted
slides?
I just spend about 3h scanning a (mounted) roll of provia last night,
inserting each slide one by one. A hell of a work.... :(
I've seen some scanners (N*k*n, I think) where a
"single-slide-feeder" was optional. Sadly, the price of such a combo
of scanner + feeder turned out to be the GNP of a mid-size nation :(
Are there any affordable alternatives?
--thomas
On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:20:28 -0700
"Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You know, this is what I want to do too :-) I scan slides in
> myself, which is not a big chore because I use the slide film
> adapter. It takes time, about 1 1/2 hrs per 36 expo. roll, but it
> is put in the roll, click some buttons and go away. Actually, I
> sometimes even work when it is scanning. The colors and exposure
> are usually pretty good, and the Nikon scanner has the ICE for dust
> removal so hardly any additional work is needed. Still though, I
> open the nicer pics in PShop, and do some minor adjustment (usually
> just minor tweaks on the levels) and run an action to size them
> down and Sharpen/USM. All in all, each pic takes may be about
> couple minutes including file open / save time.
>
> Here are the last set.
> http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/klingon_family/
> http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/2003BayCon/
>
> The 3 rolls took about 3 hours of work after scanning. I
> multitasked and do other stuff during file open and save so that
> slows things down a bit. Overall, a little bit slower than pure
> Digital workflow but not too bad.
>
> Unfortunately, they are not taken with the OM though. Sorry.
>
> At 07:17 PM 6/7/2003 -0700, Moose wrote:
> >Thanks! I suspect you may be right about the sharpening. When I do
> >a TOPE entry, I spend a fair amount of time in PS trying to best
> >emulate the large image in smaller form. In this case, this is
> >part of an experiment I might call 'digital album'. Remember when
> >you could just take the 4x6 prints you liked from a roll and add
> >them to the ol' photo album. Sure, there might be a shot or two,
> >or even a few, worth working on and enlarging, but there is a
> >certain enjoyment in just flipping through the album sometimes
> >that is different that admiring that beautiful matted and framed
> >8x10, 11x14, whatever print of the best shot.
> >
> >That's what I'm trying out here, a photo album where I can just
> >give the URL to friends and family and they can flip through it.
> >As part of that effort, the images here are right off the CD from
> >process/scanning. I pay about $19 for developing and scanning of
> >my film with output of 2000x3000 (~2,000 dpi), 17mb .bmp files,
> >533x800, ~200kb .jpeg files and thumbnails on CD with index print.
> >So, like the old way, I just put the jpegs of the images I liked
> >in a subdirectory and had PS make them into a digital album. My
> >aim is to be able to do this in a few minutes, rather than a few
> >hours, which rules out any individual tuning up in PS, let alone
> >scanning them all individually myself. I am thinking about setting
> >up an automated process in PS to lightly sharpen all of them
> >before the album step, but I need to do some experimentation
> >first....
>
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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