[rollei_list] Marc's Digital problem
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:36:03 -0700
Marc,
Give me an idea of how you are scanning? Are you going through PhotoShop
directly and then using the import option to scan the image? I have the
Epson 2450, does the 1200 have a template you place the transparencies into?
Peter K
On 8/10/05, Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My wife and I visited Alaska in late June and early July. I ended up with
> about 80 digital shots on a Rollei 3.1 digital P&S and two rolls of Kodak
> E100 and one roll of Kodachrome 64 shot with a Leica M6.
>
> I have struggled for five weeks with Photoshop 5 and an Epson 1200 scanner
> and I am about ready to abandon digital completely. I have spent 30 or 40
> hours fighting with this, and perhaps more, and, to date, I do not have a
> printable shot. All I have is junk. I am probably doing something wrong,
> as the rest of you seem to find digital work a seamless matter of success,
> but I am exceedingly frustrated.
>
> Were I to set my chemical darkrom up again, I could have printed ALL of
> the
> 113 slides I got (not that I would have done so: Alaska is full of
> interesting scenery but after a while the shots become boring) in
> Ilfochrome in about 15 or 18 hours. As it is, I can scan a slide at 1200.
> Beyond that, I am lost. Photoshop 5 Help is worthless or less: I know HOW
> to crop an item but, once cropped, how do you process the cropped image?
>
> You guys all seem to have made a seamless transition to digital. What in
> the world am I doing wrong? I am frustrated to the point where I am
> seriously contemplating taking a large lead weight and smashing the hell
> out of both my scanner and my Rollei Digital. Screw it: chemistry I
> understand but this digital stuff: oy vey!
>
> And do NOT do that awful Math Teacher trick of asking me "please define
> your problem precisely". That line of query is just why I do not know much
> math beyond really basic calculus. I need very general help. You guys
> have made the transition and I thought I was doing things properly but, in
> the end, I am lost and am now at sea in a rapidly leaking boat.
>
> Any thougths? Or should I finish off my chemical darkroom and do things I
> understand?
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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