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 D

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 qui

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 t

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 try

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

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