Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By coincidence, I have been going through my scans from the late 1990s until 2003 during the past week. Specifically, I have copied them from the hundreds of CDs onto an external HD (all TIFF files), and as I write this, I am importing them into Lightroom. The CDs are up to 10 years old, but since they were the Kodak gold CDs, they have all held up, without exception. Our of about 3000 images, there were 2 corrupted files, both on another brand CD (also gold, but not Kodak, ironically only 5 years old). It is fun to look at the old images in Lightroom, but they will need some work. The scanned film is not equal by any means to the DSLR images I make now. The one exception are the IR images, which are better than anything I have seen done with digital capture. Dan, I think you should spring for the TIFF files. They take up more space of course, but I assume your lab can do DVDs as well as CDs. You will have much more headroom to work with 16-bit files (instead of the 8-bit JPEGs). Nathan On 29-jul-2008, at 13:25, Dan Khong wrote: > Dear LUGgers > > Of late I have been souping B&W films in 4 year old Agfa Rodinal > developer > and am surprised that this brew is actually quite stable in extended > storage. That's only the start of the story. > > After developing, I sent my film to the local lab for scanning as they > provide a scanning-to-digital service. At the end of the day, I > received a > nice CD containing all the jpeg images (TIFF too on special > request) at a > resolution that will enable me to manipulate, adjust and print on > my inkjet > printer. The CD is neatly packaged in a hard cover envelope with an > indexed > printout of all the images contained in the CD. > > They also provided me with a contact sheet to include with my filed > film. > This means that I now have an analog film that will stand the test > of time > and print in the traditional darkroom whenever I have the opportunity. > > As this lab scans with the same lens used for their professional print > production, I am assured of the best possible image capture. Their > charge > for the service is, IMO, very reasonable. > > The best part is that my digital images now reflect the > characteristics of > films and their 3-D look. > > Dan K. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog