[rollei_list] Re: Scanning Slides
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:07:12 -0500
Elements 2 on Windows 7... hit or miss
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/593541
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Don -
>
> Your XP machine booted slowly because it was a mess... I make dual boot
> XP/Windows 7 machines for clients all the time and in general, XP is as
> fast as Windows 7.
>
> I would discourage you from adding new software... only the driver. The
> great likelihood is it will work perfectly. If not, you can always
> uninstall or use "restore" to turn back the clock.
>
> I would advise against installing Elements 2 under Windows 7. Get
> Lightroom... it will be more than you need.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Goldstein
>
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> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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