At 01:22 PM 11/3/2000 +0000, Lex Jenkins wrote:
>Wow. Those were well worth the wait to load, Garth. Fascinating to watch the
>plasma-like mutation of the blue sky from blobs to a smooth rendering.
Thanks, Lex. It's the reason why some of the other offerings available through
the Olympus Gallery also have such large file sizes -- vast expanses of
gradually-changing blue sky (or other gradual transitions) are included in the
pictures, and I didn't want the blue sky to "block up" and look like a
paint-by-numbers image. I've been taken to task for making this decision in
the past, primarily by people with slow connections (modems up to 56K), but I
just couldn't bring myself to compress them so much as to screw up the original
work of the shooter.
Dr. Matthew Cordery's submissions from his New Zealand mountaineering
expeditions and Western Australia trips are a case in point. There's no way to
present them well without relatively large file sizes. Here's the URL for the
thumbnail page on the Gallery:
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/cordery/cordery.html
>Like you and others I've had good luck scanning K64 with a Polaroid (including
>my TOPE 3 entry) - the 35 Plus available at many local Eckerd Pharmacies.
>Must be a fortuitous quirk of the scanner because these Eckerd workstations
>use very brain-dead ("consumer friendly") interfaces with very limited options.
Possibly, or perhaps Polaroid spent more time figuring out how to make their
scanners work with Kodachrome emulsions, which are thicker than most, if memory
serves. The same would probably be true of their own proprietary films.
>If I was going to shoot lots of Kodachrome (and I plan to) I'd be quite
>content with a Polaroid scanner based on my experiences and what I've seen
>from others.
The SprintScan 4000 is a very good scanner, although as I've stated before, the
software that comes bundled with it (Polacolor Insight) is no great shakes.
Still haven't tried Hamrick's VueScan, though.
Garth
"A bad day doing photography is better
than a good day doing just about
anything else."
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