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[OM] Fwd: [OT} Scanning was Re: My first portrait with E1

Subject: [OM] Fwd: [OT} Scanning was Re: My first portrait with E1
From: James Royall <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 01:07:52 +0100

Oops. Forgot the link. Time I got some sleep.

http://homepage.mac.com/royalljames/PhotoAlbum12.html

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> From: James Royall <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9 June 2004 00:28:45 BST
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] [OT} Scanning was Re: My first portrait with E1
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Thanks for the kind offer Chris. I think though, I may have come up
> with an easier way - I have a target slide that I have scanned at
> 4000dpi to get as much detail as possible. I have put up a couple of
> images of the slide as it is scanned by Vuescan. Neither one has any
> processing apart from being turned into jpgs.
>
> The full frame image shows all the colour and b/w gradations which look
> pretty good to me. The woman's face, however is illustrative of what
> I'm finding with my scans; it's dull and lifeless and needs a fair bit
> of adjustment to get to the natural skin tone I see on the slide, and I
> can't always get close to the slide.. Maybe this is normal and I just
> need to calibrate and profile, using one of the links David's sent me?
>
> The other question I've been asking myself is whether the scan should
> be sharper. The detail image shows actual pixels from the scan. Does
> this look about right for 4000dpi, or should it be sharper? Obviously
> some detail is lost in the jpg, but it does look virtually
> indistinguishable from the original tif.
>
> I really would appreciate any views on this, as it's been getting to me
> for some time.
>
> James
>
>
> On 8 Jun 2004, at 6:48 pm, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>>
>> If you are in UK, James, feel free to send me a slide or 2 to scan for
>> you.  I am no expert, but that might help you to narrow down where 
>> lies
>> the source of your dissatisfaction.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 7 Jun 2004, at 23:32, James Royall wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Just great. A superb shot which you seem to have made the most of in
>>> post.
>>>
>>> And I feel distinctly jealous as I struggle right now to get some 
>>> kind
>>> of life into the slides I'm scanning. All detail goes out of the
>>> shadows and the punch just disappears. Using the shadow highlight
>>> function just makes everything look flat.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>> <|_:-)_|>
>>
>> C M I Barker
>> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
>>
>> +44 (0)7092 251126
>> ftog at threeshoes.co.uk
>> http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
>> http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>> ... a nascent photo library.
>>
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