Re: filmscanners: grain aliasing on slides

2001-04-20 Thread Lynn Allen
Art wrote: All the clues are there... 1) Taken at Disneyland 2) Typical atmospheric gradation 3) look of woven paper stock 4) "crinkled" look This one doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out! Heck, don't you know a painted backdrop when you see one? You think anyone would go to

Re: filmscanners: grain aliasing on slides

2001-04-19 Thread artistic
Lynn Allen wrote: The photo was shot at Disneyland, with the Matterhorn (a roller-coaster ride, at D'land) in the background. What got my attention was the sky area, a clear-day blue with typical atmospheric gradadation down toward to the horizion. What appeared at first to be "dust" didn't

RE: filmscanners: Grain-Aliasing on Slides

2001-04-18 Thread Lynn Allen
Rob wrote: Lynn, what scanner are you using? An Acer I think? Right on. I don't think it was the scanner's fault, this time, although Scanwit's density-range leave lots of room for improvement. :-) It was definitely the camera (and the operator)--I'd have done better to meter the grass, with

filmscanners: Grain-Aliasing on Slides

2001-04-17 Thread Lynn Allen
Here's one I haven't seen very-well-addressed on the List before: grain-aliasing on Ektachrome. Does it/can it exist? Oh, yes. I just ran headlong into a real beauty! The photo was shot at Disneyland, with the Matterhorn (a roller-coaster ride, at D'land) in the background. Same scenario as I've

RE: filmscanners: Grain-Aliasing on Slides

2001-04-17 Thread Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote: so in reflective color. Result: another poorly-exposed slide that looks fine on a projection screen, not-so-great on a 2700ppi scan. Lynn, what scanner are you using? An Acer I think? Rob Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wordweb.com

Re: filmscanners: Grain-Aliasing on Slides

2001-04-17 Thread Gordon Tassi
Lynn: I ran into a similar situation with what looked like flyspecks all over 3 images in a roll I had developed. They were shot from a beach looking across a bay in the the early evening with the sun at 2 o'clock. The camera was angled just enough to prevent lens flare. My solution was to