Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > My experience with the film scanner is similar. I just stuck any slide > into the scanner, and tried for over half an hour with xsane to get > something approaching useful, but no, it's overall too dark and the > highlights are always significantly washed out. That's just all rubbish.
IMO Linux is worse-off than Windows for colour management. With Apple its built into the os. Windows provides a location for ICC profiles and assigns them to devices but it leaves the actual implementation up to the apps and drivers to figure out. As far as I know, Linux provides nothing. In the true spirit of open source I'm going to sit here and whinge until someone else does something about it :) > vuescan costs US$40, but produced a very good scan of the same slide with > one click and zero adjustments. I'm all for open source, but the job needs > to get done first. Alternatively, it's trying the supplied mickeydrivers > under win4lin, vmware, wine, etc. I've tried the Vuescan trial version on Windows but I got pretty bad results. I didn't play with it much though. Plenty of other people have raved about it. Now that I have my Agfa driver working again I don't need to worry. > Photo & Video (in Merivale mall) and Fuji Image Plaza (church corner) both > have equipment where you can stick a CD into, push some touchscreen > buttons, and get a file printed on the usual photographic paper, for the > price of reprints from negatives. I may have mentioned recently that I thought P&V's machine might support CD-RWs. This is not the case. The new drive they installed recently enables the "e-box" to write files from memory cards (which it also supports) to CD. They have a workstation out the back that will read CD- RW but this may require leaving it with them if they can't do it there & then. I have heard that CD-R's can also be a bit hit & miss with the e- box... ymmv. I might just stick with emailing the files in if they don't get too big. > Getting your film scanned at various shops is either not cost effective > (i.e. starting $10 per frame) or of too-low quality to be an interesting > option. Agreed. I had some slides scanned a couple of years ago when the going rate was about $5. The results were pretty good in general but a few shans had problems. Its a lot better when you have control over the process. Not long after that I started to anticipate a lot of scanning so I splashed out on a fancy (but low-end) multiformat scanner of my own. It had to be low-end because good scanners capable of medium format are, in a word, expensive. Plus my intention was only to scan to the web, and the occasional windows backdrop. BTW Photo & Video can scan an entire roll in one hit and write to CD for not-much-money. But if your negs have been cut into sleeves there's a $20 charge for the extra fiddling. Check the website (www.photo.co.nz) for details. BTW I'm not affiliated with P&V apart from spending too much money there. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
