[rollei_list] Re: Retro: Back to the Past!

  • From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:46:20 -0700

Marc, Marc, Marc,

Even in my small village there are adult education courses in Photoshop.
The camera shops have a vested interest in making people facile with
Photoshop.

Unfortunately I cannot take advantage of it, as my Windows 3.1 computer
with 16 meg of RAM cannot handle it.. Retirement and Social Security
warrants that I cannot upgrade; so I don't.  You would not believe what
my medical bill was, beyond what Medicare would pay!

Jerry

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.
>
> 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
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
> NEW FAX NUMBER:  +540-343-8505
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