Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I put a Kodak RFS 2035 on the photo desk for our student newspaper, and (as you said) it works beautifully. It even does a good job on the film the students shoot in Brand N and Brand C cameras <g>. Interestingly, I was told some years ago that the Kodak digital stuff was initially optimised for negatives because of their (long ago) mistaken idea that the biggest market would be amateur snapshots viewed on TV-based Photo CD players. (I'm open to correction on that, but so I was told by a Kodak rep when I was based in NY.) Do you know if there's any software more current than what shipped with the RFS 2035 or 3570 (we have one of them, too, in the classroom where I teach Photoshop etc.)? The new Kodak 4050 (4x5) even has film curves for competitors' products, but that's a $50K scanner (and I'd sooner get an S1 if I had that kind of budget)! Someone here suggested telling the scanner it's Royal Gold 200 when you scan T400CN, but that's not the only newer film the RFS doesn't recognize. What do you do? Bill >Personally, I prefer slides for most of my personal work. I like editing >them, and they just have such a nice look to them. But they sure don't scan >as nicely as negatives do. As scanning and digital imaging become the norm, >I think more and more publications won't care which you shoot. >Eric Welch Bill Barrett St. Louis barrettb@webster.edu (preferred address for personal mail) http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb