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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Daydreaming in the Market
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:31:34 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1BchT2pS_fmC8ZT6FL8UhM9WmATDnBBu8f8VD844eqydw@mail.gmail.com> <829DD82D-86D9-4A51-81FD-86152F2D2D71@acm.org> <A62CC306-376C-4F78-AB5C-5EA218FEC3FE@mac.com> <CA+yJO1CNDnTBFpaU8cweDKVbTzA3L5kjk5A=Yy-q2wo7km0h_Q@mail.gmail.com> <05D5CB14-2102-4028-BC7C-C5B1DCDB4C6C@mac.com>

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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley
http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com


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