Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe I'll win the lottery. That's the only way I could afford drum scanning. Tina On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > > > I give up!! > > > > Tina > > no no no - Tina - do not give up. > > Your primary purpose (as I understand it) > is to catalog your VAST and IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of a lifetime of > photography. > and > You're accomplishing this monumental task > while building a house > canning vegetables > marrying off your kids > traveling the world > and god knows what else. > > KUDOS! to you. > > You are a photographer. > You are not a professional film scanner. > As I understand it you're bulk scanning thousands of images. > > At some point you owe it to yourself > to have top quality drum scans made of a couple of your best images; > just to compare results with your process. > > I did give up on scanning my film files. > I could not "consistently" achieve the quality that I achieved in the > darkroom; > or the quality that drum scans achieved. > I could not afford the high end scanners; > or the time that high quality scanning film demands. > > If I ever do get back to my film files > I'll use a digital camera to catalog the film frames; rather than a > scanner. > If anyone requires maximum quality - they'll have to pay for a drum scan. > > YMMV > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com