[rollei_list] Re: Retro: Back to the Past!
- From: Chris Brown <cpbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:20:45 +0100
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:15:15PM -0400, Marc James Small 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.
Hi Marc,
As others have suggested, the whole "digital darkroom" workflow has its own
learning curve. 1200 dpi from a flatbed scanner is also pushing it a bit for
35mm - if my arithmetic is right, that's less than 2 megapixels from 35mm,
so you won't get the sort of detail you're used to with chemical prints.
They should just about be OK at 6*4 though, certainly usable.
I do quite a lot of digital printing from scans. If you're not even getting
decent 6*4 prints, I'd be happy to take a look at one of your scans and see
what I can do with it. If you'd like to email me one of the 6*4 scans
off-list (as a TIFF file, before you've adjusted it in Photoshop), I'd be
happy to have a look at it for you. That way we can at least try to
determine at what stage the problem is.
Best regards,
Chris Brown
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