Hi, I thought this might be of interest to somebody, so I decided to post one of the scans from this machine onto my website: http://www.web-options.com/india/onion_trader.jpg
For some reason my website is going very, very slowly at the moment, so apologies for the delay - the file is less than 60k. This is a straightforward conversion from the 40Mb tiff file. The only adjustment I've done, apart from the jpegging of course, is to change the gamma to 1.8. Converted by Irfan Image Viewer. Obligatory Pentax content: consider this a guest entry in the Portraits PUG. <g> --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 8:53:21 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > thanks. I took a couple of slides in yesterday for scanning and an A4 > reference print, and the work that's come back is as good as, or > probably better than, any other print I've had from a slide. They're > printed on photo paper and are indistinguishable from a 'proper' photo. > Whether or not they scale up to 30x45cm remains to be seen. I need to > see what I can do with the scans on an A3 printer myself before I decide > whether or not to have him do the exhibition prints. Chances are that I'll > ask him to do the other scans though. The files are 40mb tiffs. He's a > good bloke and happy to spend a lot of time talking about the work and > getting right first time, which is a refreshing change around here. He > hasn't done any correcting or sharpening - he relies on the customer > to do that, or to specify exactly what they want doing. > It was interesting to see the machine at work today. He hadn't done > reference prints for me, so I asked him to. Within about 3 minutes > they came off the machine - very impressive quality, very quickly. It > seems to be a fairly new machine, and he's pretty excited about it. He > showed me a fair bit of his own work and some work he's done for other > customers (mostly 6x7). The location of the lab - it's in a rather > obscure side alley in the middle of London's advertising district, with > no passing trade whatsoever - and the type of work he showed me suggests > that it is a destination lab, and that his clients are mainly professionals > and people like me who aspire to professional quality. > --- > Bob > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Monday, June 24, 2002, 9:34:15 AM, you wrote: >> Hi Bob, >> 1) check with them if the scanning resolution of the machine is high >> enough - one older Noritsu digilab was only 2000 ppi which was >> inadequate for anything bigger than 5x7". The Frontier is AFAIK 4000 >> ppi so it does nice job up to the maximum size of 26x39cm. >> If it's too low, you could have the scans made elsewhere on some good >> film scanner. >> Also look out for JPEG artifacts and sharpening artifacts, many of >> these cheaper digilabs are operated with only speed in mind so jpg >> artifacting is too apparent. >> 2) It should not be a problem having a print of 30cm wide any cm long >> made (as long as the possibly crappy Konica softare allows it). >> 3) I would have them print me one of the more difficult slides at >> maximum size, so I would see how good the built-in scanner is (also at >> dynamic range, noise, ...). The beforementioned older Noritsu was >> visibly worse than the Fuji Frontier at big enlargements (pixelation >> from not enough ppi during scanning, not enough dynamic range,...), >> but I chose them then as the operator was quite more skilled at the >> time than those with the Frontier. Also, these machines can sometime >> directly talk with Photoshop so the guy made some colour adjustments for >> me in photoshop (just quick ones, took about same time as in the >> default software, otherwise the cost would be much worse). >> HTH, Frantisek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
