Some film processing is better than others. I have some excellent prints (and negatives) from early 1950s Germany, taken with a Leica by my dad and processed by a local camera shop there. He reported that the processing in the US was so bad when he got back to the States, that he sold the camera.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > I would encourage you to scan a few negatives/transparencies, measure the > time it takes and extrapolate to cover all your negatives/positives. > > When I did that years ago, I quickly realized that scanners are just too > slow for what I wanted to do in a time given to me by mother nature - by > couple of orders of magnitude, actually. Plus the scan quality was not that > great either. > > The solutions to speed things up are either: > a) adapter for your digital camera + automation. That way you can scan and > postprocess hundreds of pictures a day instead of a few with slow scanners. > With half decent DSLR, you will get high quality scans. > b) send the stash out for someone else to scan them. There are a few big > and decent companies still doing it. That is what I have eventually settled > on. The price is good and the quality is decisively better than from a > desktop scanner with transparency adapter. > > Until I went through this scanning discovery, I naively believed in great > quality of film photography compared to digital. I was so wrong - today's > digital imaging is vastly superior, especially to old/aged films. > > I hope that you find my comments useful, > Tomas > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 11:54 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > There is a guy in Seattle named Andrew Filer, who I met in a > > then-hackerspace called Metrix:Create who modified a Kodak Carousel > > projector in such a way as to backlight the slides (reduced wattage of > the > > bulb, replaced the heat shield with frosted glass), basically used the > > projector as a slide advancing robot, removed the lens, and aimed a > digital > > SLR with a macro lens back at the slide and photographed the slide. With > > some simple transistor circuits, you could automate the camera's shutter > > release and the slide advance. You could do a whole tray of slides in a > > few minutes with very little supervision. > > > > You need a digital SLR and a macro lens, preferably one with autofocus > (as > > I discovered). But orders of magnitude less tedious than a flatbed > scanner > > where you manually loaded slides into a holder, 12 at a time. > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann < > > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > Russell, > > > > > > I would be interested in the method. Picture of a screen? > > > > > > -Denis > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Russell Senior < > > > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Gotcha. I don't have any better solutions for that. > > > > > > > > If they were slides, I'd suggest the method I used in Seattle a few > > years > > > > ago, that went through about 3000+ slides in kodak projector > carousels > > is > > > > an afternoon. Automation++. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Michael Rasmussen < > > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Of primary interest are 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6x9cm) negatives from my > > > > > grandparents. After that 35mm negatives. > > > > > > > > > > I was entrusted to my grandparents' negatives and am feeling a > > > > > responsibility to scan them into digital files for my relatives. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2018-06-27 10:10, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> What kind of transparencies? If they are 35mm slides, and lots of > > > them, > > > > >> there is a better way. > > > > >> > > > > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Michael Rasmussen < > > > [email protected]> > > > > >> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> In another group, it was suggested I try Vuescan from > > > > >>> https://www.hamrick.com/ > > > > >>> The free Linux download untars to three binaries. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> It just works. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Now to, when I have time, figure out the issue with xsane. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> On 2018-06-26 18:37, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> I've acquired an Epson V500 flatbed scanner. After immediate > > install > > > of > > > > >>>> xsane and the Epson iscan drivers scanning does not work. I've > > > added > > > > >>>> myself to the scanner group and done a bit of unproductive > > googling. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> The sympton can be summed up: > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -L > > > > >>>> device `epson:libusb:001:006' is a Epson flatbed scanner > > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -T > > > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768 > > > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768 > > > > >>>> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> If you have a cluestick on what needs to be done, I'm ready for > a > > > > whack. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> > > > > > -- > > > > > Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon > > > > > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
