Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexander wrote: > > > > Hello dear LUGgers, > > > > can someone tell me what is the purpose of using the best lenses, waking up at odd hours, standing in the rain...etc... to get that super picture, when at the end, if it is to be published digitaly (i.e. web) the results are mediocre at best? > > > > I have tried to scan some of my slides for countless hours using PS5 and tried all kinds of "tricks" but the results can never capture the original sharpness and contrast. And the brightness? Well forget about that, not even photoshop's brightness option can save you. > > Not to mention having to compress the resulting files in order to achieve an acceptable download time... > > > > Is there a solution? > > > > here are 2 samples I tried, If you have the time, check them out. > > > > http://www.mediadyne.gr/photos > > > > -A frustrated Leica user... :( I just checked them out and they don't look that bad to me, the top one looks close to great. Sometimes big black shadows are what make a picture. Of course I'm not seeing them projected with extra tight pumped through them. I'm about to blow a couple of grand on a Minolta Scanner instead of one of the new 135M or 21M lenses so I can scan 35mm or Brownie film. This will be my first scanner. But on the other hand this is all on the consumer level of course. Out there there is a higher level of "commercial" grade scanners with an extra decimal point of detail and dollars. I think for the masterpieces on our dark side we bring them into the drum scanner service and it's ten bucks? I'm also starting my first Photo CD in the weeks before the money comes in for the scanner. And I think that might be a great thing. I wonder how the photo cd's do on our bulletproof slides?