Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 17 July 2000, MIKIRO wrote: > > At 5:39 pm +0200 15/7/00, Doug Herr wrote: > >I have changed completely to digital printing and the results I have seen > >demonstrate even more than with optical printing the value of high-quality > >equipment for making the original slides or negatives. My Leica slides are > >much easier to work with than my N**** slides. Shadow detail in particular is > >far better in the Leica chromes; likewise, the N**** slides are far more > >likely to have odd color casts in the highlights and shadows. Aside from > >exceptional images, I limit the size of my N**** prints to 10x14 where the > >photos made with Leica equipment are still rich with detail at 16x20. IMHO > >Leica lenses and digital printing are an excellent combination. > > > >Doug Herr > >Sacramento > >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt > > Doug- > I am now cosidering Kodak PhotoCD. My present scanner (old Nikon LS-20) > gives poor images, something like faded colour prints. Upgrading to LS-2000 > should be fine, but for the moment I do not want to invest a lot for a > scanner, because the number of scans will be limited. In your opinion and in > your printing conditions, does PhotoCD give comparable or even better images > as than those from LS-2000 or other top-quality scanners? Does it enable > distinction of film characters between, say, Elitechrome and Kodachrome, or > Velvia and Kodachrome? In your seperate post you said that PhotoCD can even > extract characters of Kodachrome which you could not with conventional > printing. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, > > NO ARCHIVE > > Mikiro > Strasbourg Europe > http://arbos.silva.net Mikiro, I haven't used the LS-2000. I am also unwilling to sink lots of money in to my own scanner, because of the limited number of high-resolution scans I anticipate needing. The Pro PhotoCD scans (about USD $15 each) have had all the detail I want for excellent quality 16x20 prints but using the Kodak PhotoCD software has been less than ideal. The software has settings for Kodachrome, E6, B&W and color neg but at least for the Kodachromes the color gamut (sp?) isn't what it ought to be, or I don't have my system set up right. I downloaded Silverfast's LasersoftCD demo and it appears to do a much better job of reading the PhotoCDs than Kodak's software does, in addition to being far more flexible. It's on my birthday wish list. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/