Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-30 Thread wendy beard
unfortunately they don't do business with customers outside of the US On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jos from Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to select before scanning. I expect 5 to 10 % that I will want to

Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Jos from Holland
Dear Group, I have lot of film material (negatives and slides) that I want to convert to digital. I have a good Minolta film scanner, at that time I paid more for it than a K20D costs :-). It delivers good quality but it takes far to much time to be used on larger quantities of

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Jos from Holland wrote: ... This worked for me. Suggestions for quality or speed improvements are most welcome ... I used to scan a lot of film ... probably up to five rolls of film a week, selectively ... and it is *always* time consuming, tedious and

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Jos from Holland wrote: ... This worked for me. Suggestions for quality or speed improvements are most welcome

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: Most of the professionals I've talked to in the past year are now outsourcing this work to ScanCafe (http://scancafe.com/). The results look very good, and at $190 to scan a thousand negatives ($240 for a thousand slides), it is great

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:24 PM Subject: Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: Most

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread pnstenquist
It sounds like you've optimized this process, and I'm sure your results will be more than acceptable. Thje only thing I might suggest is using a good evenly lit light box for illumination. That being said, a high quality film scanner will undoubtedly do a better job, and I doubt that you'd

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread pnstenquist
I have more than 200,000 negatives that I've never printed or scanned. Probably 10,000 that I'd REALLY like to have scanned. Many of those are BW shots of my kids when they were toddlers -- thirty years ago. I should look into this. Paul -- Original message --

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Jos from Holland
Thnx for your reaction Godfrey, I did not think in the direction of having it done, yet. Economicly you're probably right, working a few days and use that money leads probably to more scanned film than I could do myself in those few days. The same holds for painting my house, but I still do it

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Jos from Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to select before scanning. I expect 5 to 10 % that I will want to digitize. Can I tell to scancafe to scan only #6 and #24 of a set of negative strips? Jos: Scancafe lets you pic the scans you want--and you

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Scott Loveless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have more than 200,000 negatives that I've never printed or scanned. Probably 10,000 that I'd REALLY like to have scanned. Many of those are BW shots of my kids when they were toddlers -- thirty years ago. I should look into this. Paul -- Original

Re: Work flow to convert a BW film negative to a digital file for PUG

2008-06-26 Thread Jos from Holland
TNX Paul, My Minolta Dimage ScanSpeed does a better job than the macro set-up with my K10D, pixel count is effectively three times higher in case of colour, but it is sooo sloow: high resolution scanning takes 45 seconds! I only want to spent so much time if the picture has to be