Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, >>it is only in the last month or so that I have had a scanner capable of scanning trannies, and secondly because of my inexperience with scanning and in particular,photoshop. Getting acceptably sharp scans of 35mm slides has been very difficult, but I feel that I am making progress.<< You're already way ahead of where I was a month or so after I bought my first trannie capable scanner. That was 4 years ago. I assumed scanning was a no-brainer. Just plug and play!!! Truth is scanning has a substantial learning curve. It's like any other aspect of photography. Takes practice. Technique might be more important than equipment. In fact, I use a 9-year old scanner. Ancient in digital terms. Here's an unmanipulated scan of Sensia 200. http://www.lightcurves.com/gallery1/image3.htm. The only thing I did in Photoshop was resize it. The original scan is 5500x3800 pixels. That brings me to another point. I'm having a large print made today. For trannie shooters digital sure makes it easy to make prints. Locally there are half dozen labs that can print a scanned image on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. It's relatively inexpensive. I love film. DaveR - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html