Hi Paul, Walt, John Francis, and Brian: After importing the frames into Lightroom, I see that the size is 2716 x 1830, so think John Francis & Walt are right with respect to the 300 dpi. It's very likely I didn't really understand what the guy was telling me. But given what you guys have said and the actual pixel size, these scans are probably around what Walt was/is getting, which, as he stated, was 2000ish dpi.
I really wanted to try scancafe.com because they scan at 3000 dpi @ 19 cents a frame, & you don't have to pay for the scans you don't like (though you do have to agree to purchase a minimum of 50% of frames sent in), but their turn around time now (because they've gotten incredible press) is 8 WEEKS! But now that I've got the ok from you guys, I think I'll start cleaning my negs & get Costco to scan. Big thanks for all you help. It's really appreciated. Sorry I took so long to get back. I've had bad email problems most of the late afternoon. Cheers, Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Costco Scan Test with Query > Excellent scans overall and some great pics. But how large are the > scans? Are they 300dpi at the frame size? That's very lo-res. If > they're 300dpi at 8x10 or larger, they'd be useful for printing. > Paul > Paul > On May 14, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> Yesterday I tried Costco scanning (turns out I've 2 by me. Where >> have I >> been?). I grabbed some BW negs & some color negs. I've got 5 >> frames in the >> folder below: 3 BW & 2 color. Aside from the dust spots, I was >> wondering if >> you thought the quality was ok. I really don't have much >> experience in >> judging scanned negs. I didn't do any processing. These frames >> are right >> off the Costco CD. I got 42 frames scanned for a little over 3 >> dollars. >> Costco scanned these at 300 dpi. >> >> These shots where taken over 20 years ago on my Pentax MX, which I >> no longer >> have :-( >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=833208 >> >> >> The little guy is my little brother & the airport shot is my little >> sister, >> both of whom aren't so little anymore. >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
