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["Wolfe, Joanna" <joanna.wolfe AT oup.com>]

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/ 
        Cc: 
        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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        >
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