Markus, Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, I think there might be a few good ones in my Father's slides, but they are all somewhat dusty Kodachromes. I'm not looking forward to dealing with that! ICE struggles with Kodachrome, no? Still I'd like ICE anyway for scanning my own stuff. I'm also using a Minolta Scan Dual, though the version IV. I'm scanning in some of the other Japan photos at the moment. Actually, I got hold of an Elite 5400 (mk1 version) relatively cheaply from ebay a while ago but it seems to crash/hang an awful lot. I've not managed to get a useful scan out of it yet, which is frustrating. I'm not sure whether it's just buggy software (yes latest version from the web) or whether it's a faulty unit... Cheers, Eric.
On 30/12/06, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
