Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the info......I will be scanning a bunch of Royal Gold 25 negs tomorrow to see if there is a big difference. At 09:32 PM 3/29/98 -0600, Eric Welch wrote: >At 02:20 PM 3/29/98 -0800, you wrote: > >>>Does anyone have experience with getting color negatives >>>scanned onto PhotoCD? I have always believed that slide film >>>was the best for getting the ultimate image quality in a scan, > >Francesco, > >You will find that with scanning, negative films are actually better. With >Photoshop you can make pictures that are incredible. You can make them look >exactly like what you saw when you took the picture. Color and saturation >can be better than with chrome film that's scanned, because the negative >can hold a wider range of tones than slides. And you can make negs glow >with that chrome look with the right touch in Photoshop. > >The big problem comes with output. I have a dye-sub printer at work. Not >many people have access to such a fine machine. Unfortunately, I'm >restricted to about 8x12 inches. >========== > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Maniac: An early computer built by nuts... > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/