Good points from Winsor and Stephen. I'm still afraid of the attack
of the black mould -so I will try to archive them as best I can.
I am actually quite disappointed by the poor quality scans of the
slides by the HP photoscanner. In contrast, no pun intended,
negatives look really good. The slides come out washed out, without
contrast, color, and are all dark. The negatives produce excellent
pictures - quite vibrant, what I would expect. Either I am doing
something wrong, or the machine has a problem (it is new), or I am
expecting too much. Does anyone have any experience with the
s20? I have worked with the 2400 dpi resolution - and I am using the
software that ships with it.
Benson
>tiff files are considered to be a lossless format and should be
>around for a while. If your software can save them that way and >
you
>do not want to manipulate them you do not need Photoshop.
>Some things to consider:
>Unless your scanner has a hardware resolution of 4000 dpi you
>are
>probably not going to get all the information in the slide. You may
>not be getting all even with 4000. You are not going to get all the
>information in a contrasty slide except with one of those $40,000
>drum
>scanners. If you are determined to do this with contrasty slides do
>two
>scans: one exposure for the highlights and one for the shadows.
>Someday
>you can put them together in Photoshop v.49.0 and get closer to the
>original slide.
>You might also consider how technology changes. Tiff images
>could be
>superceded next year by a better image format and maybe
>software would
>hen deal with old Tiff images for maybe another 6 or 8 years. CD
>Rom
>could be replaced by the next new thing, probably some sort of
>organic
>memory.
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