That recan is a huge improvement Eric in every way. I hope you find a lot of treasures in those old photos and show us some more. With those Takumar lenses there must be some - at least technical - very good ones among them ;-) I do a rescan of old negatives now with a cheap Minolta Dual Scan II but wished it had some sort of digital ICE for the scratches and dust marks. It's painful to heal them manually in Photoshop but the increased details I get compared to the Canon 9900f flatbed scans (with ICE!) make it for me. I would love to get a high end Nikon scanner for that but will have to wait another year till the used ones are cheaper and less in demand.
greetings Markus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Featherstone Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:36 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Zen garden Hi, Just trying to keep the PESO density up a bit ;-) I spent some time recently trying to get my slide scanner installed again (had reinstalled/updated the OS so there were still things like this to sort out.) The timing of this could be handy; I stayed with my parents over Christmas and spent some time looking through some of my Father's slides (four boxes of 2 to 3 hundred slides each). In amongst them are plenty of photos of various places around the world in the late 60's early 70's. Could be interesting, I can see some scanning on the horizon. They were all taken with a Pentax SV with a Super Takumar 50/2, the pentaprism-mounted light meter, and possibly 35mm and 135mm lenses. This, really, is the beast that got me interested in cameras when I was young... My Father still has it and, apart from the PX-13 cell of course, it still seems to be in working order. Anyway, back to the PESO. I've revisited the Japanese Garden photo I posted a month or so ago. This time I've been able to scan it myself rather than relying on the PhotoCD I had, and cropped it slightly differently after the suggestions from last time. The garden is in the grounds of Kodaiji, a temple in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan. It can just about be seen on Google maps in amongst a cluster of other temples and shrines: <maps.google.com/maps?q=kyoto,japan&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=35.000683,135.78125&spn= 0.001624,0.003374&t=h> The garden is right in the middle there. Comments welcome: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5369913 The previous version is here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5229885 Cheers, Eric. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 29.12.2006 08:22 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
