Alan Chan wrote:
The major issue is that all scans require some degree of enhancement using photo editing softwares. Straight scans are almost always disappointing.
Really? Why? I've always thought of film as a fairly consistent medium, and it shouldn't be too hard to scan it accurately, but maybe I'm wrong? Or do you need editing software to mainly to correct exposure errors?
Also, does this mean that a scan of a 10x15 print will be better than the film scan, if you both are unedited?
Scanning prints doesn't seem right, though, as they generally have lower quality and resolution that what the film allows, as far as I know (is there even a point in using as much as 1200dpi for an average print?)
Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know if there is a film scanner that will operate without a PC connection - and save the data on CompactFlash, SD card or whatever? I know HP makes a flatbed for 10x15 prints, but I'm assuming that scanning the film would be better.
I've been wondering about this for a while, and got reminded when I saw this:
http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_burnaway.html
If combining this with a scanner of the kind I'm talking about, I might be able to produce CDs from my negatives without ever having to let the data enter the PC - which would be a Good Thing. Well, I guess some people won't agree with me with this, but I think special-purpose devices like this are invariably easier to operate and more reliable than PCs or PC software. And of course, the PC harddrive is ultimately a bad place to store the pictures, so why not send them directly to a better place - like a CD?
I guess a scanner that would write data directly to a CD would be even better, though, if we're talking about negatives as input...
- Toralf
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