Hi! I have some 500+ messages worth of backlog. So I bear with me <g>. You know, shooting at friend's wedding has its toll <bg>.
SB> A 24mb JPEG isn't that large - color film, right? I think I was getting 48+mb SB> with the Coolscan from Leica and LX negatives. Oh wait, that was with TIFF or SB> PSD files. Why do you want such small files as 6mb? Why JPEG files and not TIFF SB> or PSD? I was talking in megaPixels, not megaBytes. As I said, one of the problems with local labs is that you don't have any control on what and how they do. You can only hope to get half decent result and salvage the rest with PhotoShop or such. You see, since I don't sell my stuff, they have no real monetary interest except getting done with my (or any one else's) films as fast as they can getting their money and collecting their profit... SB> Which lab are you using? I've just been talking with my friend in TA about just SB> that issue ... getting the lab to tweak the scans or prints. The better labs SB> here will do that, even provide their color profiles if that's appropriate or SB> needed. Currently I am only using the lab to process the film, which I hope eventually will also be done by me. I have a friend who's about to set up his own processing equipment at home. I will learn with/from him and then see where I'd go. I scan at home on Epson 2450 at 2400 dpi (maximal optical resolution) resulting in about 36 Mbyte (6 Mpixel) of PSD file (6 MPixel * 6 bytes per pixel (16 bit per color * 3) = 36 Mbyte). For my amateur purposes it is more than enough. Sorry for being rather late. Boris
