Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken, I do it because: (a) I have to get them dev'd professionally (they are C41); (b) it is much easier to put it through a large scale commercial scanner as part of the same process; (c) I am too tight a ************* to pay out four or five hundred for a good scanner and still more for one that can deal with non-35 mm if I want to go that way in the future. The resolution really is good enough to work with and print from. At high res a typical shot will come out at a nominal 108 x 72 (cm) at 72 dpi equivalent; and in RGB (which of course is how it is scanned) about 18MB; or more than enough info to get a good quality A4 or A3-sized print. This is how I have dealt with almost all of my submissions to the LUG (recent notable exception is the PAW 19 Tulips which was digital to B&W). If I am honest I think that using PSE 2 is the biggest technical constraint in my workflow. I bought PSE 4 but think that is is rubbish and I don't want to lay out the money for PS CS because it is mostly irrelevant to what I want to do. Anybody got a spare PS7? ;-) The biggest constraint in the end is really my own ability or lack thereof. Hope that this helps Peter Kenneth Frazier wrote: > > On May 14, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > >> have them developed and the negs scanned as high res TIFFs and put >> on a CD by my local dev shop (as positives > > > Peter, do you think you get better results this way, rather than > scanning them yourself? Perhaps this has been addressed, and I might > have missed it. > > Ken > ----------------------------------- > The Rev. Kenneth Frazier > Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ > ---------------------------------- > Current Leica Photography (PESO): > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r > > Current Medium Format Photos: > http://tinyurl.com/bjvfn > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >