[rollei_list] Re: Scanning Slides
- From: william schillereff <pastorbill6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:28:02 -0800
My 4870 was good under vista, windows 7 and not that I have moved to Mac it
works under updated drivers on Lion 10.7
From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:52:20 -0600
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Scanning Slides
At 02:36 AM 2/5/2012, you wrote:
> From: william schillereff <pastorbill6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The older Epson flatbed scanners have templates which allow slides to be
> scanned at 6 or 8 at a time. Mine has done a great job with negs. The scanners
> can go to 9600 dpi
>
> I cut my File negs into 2's and scan both and then crop the other out follow
> the procedure for the second. I get negs which are about one gig ea. This is
> how I get past the 645 effect and get 2 by 2 negs full frame It works well
> for my needs. It is cheap too.
>
> You can get these off Ebay but be sure to get all the plastic templates or it
> can be a bust. One template is for a 4 by 5 neg. I would not trade this off
> for any reason. Now if I knew photoshop better all would be well allowing for
> a digital darkroom and boy do I need it in the winter but come spring back to
> the chemicals and noxious odors :)
>
> Bill schillereff
My Canoscan 1230U came with several templates and I made a couple of special
ones for bare 120 slides and negatives because I thought it would be best to
have the film close to the glass. Not sure that made much difference.
I will give Eirc's suggestion of a Vista driver a try soon, but you will see
in my response to him that I want to keep this new system as clean as
possible. I can restore my old computer to function, but it makes so much
noise (fans, it's in a big "gamers" box), that my wife would find out I
haven't yet tossed it. Even if I toss it, I have 5-6 drives to format/erase
before it goes away.
I still have PhotoShop Elements 2 here, but haven't tried to install it on
Windows 7.
I keep getting ads from the PhotoShop folks to upgrade but I plan to wait,
since the only feature that I ever used that isn't available free, is the
one that converts faded/reddish slides to something like new. That was done
during a free test with software that PhotoShop has now acquired. In my
tests it left a watermark, but the results were great, recovering very pink
Ek 64 slides from Pompeii made in 1963 to look almost new.
(I also have to admit that I have some very under-exposed U/W slides that I
think can be recovered with PhotoShop. The underexposure was my fault in
the way I used the light meter. The flash shots I took were great and
later I did get some very nice available light shots, down to about 30',
using a CC30R filter that I sandwiched in glass so it would fit the
Rolleimarin turret.)
I am, for now, using some stuff built into Windows 7 and also IfranView,
which is improved almost every month or so. It does a good flat surface
scan using my neat little (and inexpensive) HP Photosmart printer/scanner,
but that scanner, of course, doesn't do slides and negatives.
It's really so pleasant to be able to sit beside a computer and hear nothing
from it. It has a couple of fans but you can't hear them. It boots up in a
few seconds and shuts down even more quickly.
DAW
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