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scanning question
I need to get a low-res scan of my images before I post them.
Has anyone tried a cheap flatbed scanner that can scan trannies? I'm thinking if the area is big enough I could scan the entire sheet of trannies all in one go. |
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tangent wrote:
I need to get a low-res scan of my images before I post them. Has anyone tried a cheap flatbed scanner that can scan trannies? I'm thinking if the area is big enough I could scan the entire sheet of trannies all in one go. Donät go for a cheap scanner, go for something like an Epson 4870 and then reduce the size with an appropriate program like Photoshop or Päshop Elements... rgds George PS: I assume you call transparencies with that word..."trannies" - what language is this? |
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Robert Feinman wrote:
In article , says... tangent wrote: I need to get a low-res scan of my images before I post them. Has anyone tried a cheap flatbed scanner that can scan trannies? I'm thinking if the area is big enough I could scan the entire sheet of trannies all in one go. Donät go for a cheap scanner, go for something like an Epson 4870 and then reduce the size with an appropriate program like Photoshop or Päshop Elements... rgds George PS: I assume you call transparencies with that word..."trannies" - what language is this? I second the suggestion for an Epson 4870 or similar. You can look at the results it produces in the discussions in the tips section of my web site. I've never had much success with batch scanning, however. Each image seems to require some unique tweaking. I think "trannies" is a Britishism. My good Lord, what did the program do to my reply - it cut out the ' and replaced it with a strange other character...sorry for it! George |
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Aussie slang.
The point i'm making is I don't need any quality hi-res scans here. 72dpi is fine. If i want medium format scanned I get a 1gig drum scan. Is this Epson scanner expensive? Can i do a sheet (A4) at once? |
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"tangent" wrote in message
oups.com... Aussie slang. The point i'm making is I don't need any quality hi-res scans here. 72dpi is fine. If i want medium format scanned I get a 1gig drum scan. Is this Epson scanner expensive? Can i do a sheet (A4) at once? I've been asking myself the same question recently. My flatbed (very old Epson) won't do bigger than 4x5 (the limitation is the size of the transparency hood, and possibly software too, as that is the size it 'expects' the hood to be), and my film scanner stops at 6x9. It would be very useful to put 'contact sheet' like scans online or email them to clients when discussing initial image selection, before I send them a few 'real' scans, and for this a low res. scan of a whole film would be extremely useful - a sheet of 36 35mm images, 12 6x6s, or whatever. Is this the sort of thing you're thinking about too? Latest thought is simply to put a sheet on my lighbox and photograph it with a digital camera - low quality indeed, but likely to be OK for the purpose at hand. Just about to try it... Failing that, and if I can't find a scanning method that works, I may just copy a sheet at a time onto 4x5 duplicating film and scan that: in some ways that sounds like overkill, but it is still so much less work than scanning 36 slides individually, for the sake of selling only one. Peter |
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Hey Peter,
exactly what I'm thinking, and you know.... the smartest idea I've heard so far is the didi shot of the light table. Good thinking. Well done! Cheers, John |
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