Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Nice pictures. As for the scanning--I do not think you are doing anything wrong, this is as good as it gets scanning a 35mm slide on a flatbed scanner at 1200 ppi. Nathan Mark Pope wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just posted some new images to > http://www.leica-gallery.net/mark-pope/folder-3334.html > > The colour ones were scanned this afternoon using my new Canon 2400FS > flatbed scanner. > > The B&W image was scanned from a print and looks pretty good (IMHO). > However, the colour images are not very sharp at all. They look good under > a loupe. > > Both of the scans are from mounted slides. I originally scanned one of them > using as per the instructions, i.e. mounting the slide in the film holder, > but this resulted in an even softer scan! > > These scans were done by placing the slide mounts directly on to the glass > of the scanner, using the film holder as a positioning guide. The scans > were originally done at 1200 ppi, sharpened in Photoshop elements using the > unsharp mask and then resized (with resampling) before being converted to > JPG format. > > I have RTFM'd and I can't find anything in the Canon literature to indicate > what I'm doing wrong. Any help or advice, plus feedback on the images on or > off list would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Mark Pope > Swindon Wilts, UK > > http://www.monomagic.co.uk > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html