[rollei_list] Re: Retro: Back to the Past!
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:13:34 +0000 (GMT)
Hello Marc:
I think that if you obtain a good original
from a digital camera or after a scanning process
almost you can avoid to touch the image, a deep PS or
similar software knowledge is necessary only if you
are a pro or if you often have bad images or bad
scanning results to try to improve them; I think that
knowing the basic procedures for PS or Corel
Photopaint or the Image edition software included when
you buy the scanner is enough to obtain decent
results. There are booklets, books and tutorials that
you could understand easily to adquire a method to
work with digital images. If you can't obtain good
results from your printer, you can give your digital
file to a digital lab and they'll do a good job with
your file, they also could do suggestions for your
work.
BTW, the old darkroom always is an excellent option,it
offers emotions that the digital image can't offer.-
All the best
Carlos
From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:15:15 -0400
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
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