[internetworkers] photo negative scanning services
Wolfe, Joanna
joanna.wolfe at oup.com
Thu Nov 25 13:57:52 EST 2004
Wolf Camera does that sort of thing, I believe - Cary Maynard, Durham
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joanna wolfe (no relation)
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Zimmerman [mailto:evan.zimmerman at gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 11/25/2004 10:27 AM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
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Subject: Re: [internetworkers] photo negative scanning
services
At least tangentially on topic -- does anyone know how to go
backwards
to slides? As in, upload a digital pic and have a slide made
and sent
back?
Evan
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:55:34 -0500, Roger Austin
<raustin3 at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Evan Zimmerman wrote:
> > Sure -- we used a Nikon Coolscan V, which is a dedicated
film/slide
> > scanner. I'm not so sure about the adapters for flatbeds,
they don't
> > seem like they would work as well, but I can't say I have
much
> > experience with them.
>
> I have scanned slides in a dedicated scanner with great
results.
> A friend had a scanner that I used. You can do negatives the
same
> way. At that time 3-4 years ago, the scanners were fairly
expensive,
> but now they are fairly inexpensive to purchase
(~$600-$1,000).
> The optical density should be what you look at and 2400
should be
> the lowest dpi to use. If the scanner allows a variety of
levels,
> do a roll on various settings to see if the results are
usable for
> your purposes before doing the remainder of your rolls. (If
you are
> like me, you have hundreds or thousands of rolls.)
> It may be possible to ask around if anyone would let you
borrow
> one or rent one. The biggest issue is that you need to make
sure
> your slides or negatives are clean and that you have
feces-load of
> disk space. I had an assembly line of scanning and burning
CDs so
> that I didn't run out of disk space. I still had times of
sitting
> around waiting for the CDs to burn (remember that this was
3-4
> years ago when burning CDs took 30-40 minutes each.)
> If you have a lifetime of negatives to scan, I advise you
to do
> it yourself. It would be worth buying the scanner and then
reselling
> it after you finish. Another word of advice: Don't start
playing
> with the files until you finish all your scanning. You can
spend
> the rest of your life playing with the files.
>
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