Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > I give up!! > > Tina no no no - Tina - do not give up. Your primary purpose (as I understand it) is to catalog your VAST and IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of a lifetime of photography. and You're accomplishing this monumental task while building a house canning vegetables marrying off your kids traveling the world and god knows what else. KUDOS! to you. You are a photographer. You are not a professional film scanner. As I understand it you're bulk scanning thousands of images. At some point you owe it to yourself to have top quality drum scans made of a couple of your best images; just to compare results with your process. I did give up on scanning my film files. I could not "consistently" achieve the quality that I achieved in the darkroom; or the quality that drum scans achieved. I could not afford the high end scanners; or the time that high quality scanning film demands. If I ever do get back to my film files I'll use a digital camera to catalog the film frames; rather than a scanner. If anyone requires maximum quality - they'll have to pay for a drum scan. YMMV Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist