Simon
The Miinolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400(to give it its full name ;-)) can
scan up to 4 mounted slides and up to 6 mounted negatives (or unmounted
slides of course). It has no roll-of-film adaptor which I believe the
Nikon might have. I can scan a film (let's say of 24 keepers) in a
morning, interspersing visits to the computer with cutting the grass,
say.
I normally output each scan at 5400ppi, 16-bit and around 7000 pixels
wide or long. This gives me a 216Mb file so I need a fair amount of
RAM to work Photoshop through Levels (or Curves), conversion to 8-bit
and saving a 80Mb file (now sized to around 6000 pixels long or wide)
as a compressed TIF. I then resize/resample to 600 pixels long or wide
and save a copy as a JPEG for web/email use. I am very happy with the
quality of the scans.
Your Father certainly went for his adventures! I should love to see
some of those pictures. I now have my grandfather's photo albums; he
flew in the RFC in the First World War and was a Colonel in the Indian
Army in the Second. There are loads of photos from the North West
Frontier fighting and onwards.
Chris
On 17 Sep 2004, at 21:58, Simon Worby wrote:
>
> Is it any good? Can it scan negative strips as well? I don't know much
> about them, but I know "C.H.Ling" has the Nikon and his scans seem to
> be the DB's.
>
>> Where was your father in the 70s? I left Delhi in 1974 on joining the
>> RAF; my father was manager of the Standard Bank in Delhi, previously
>> manager of the Bank in Calcutta. I visited them in both places during
>> the school holidays and before joining the RAF.
>
> He didn't live over there. He went over twice. 1970s. Got caught once
> (in Pakistan, I think) in civil unrest and had to leave the car there
> and fly back. He drove all the way there and back with my mother for
> their honeymoon (camping in the Land Rover) and all the way into
> Afghanistan. There are some amazing stories, varying from almost
> getting shot, to driving through a chain when they tried to rob him on
> the road, to managing to fit an alleged 50 gallons of diesel into the
> 11 gallon diesel tank in Kabul.
>
> Some of the pictures are amazing (all shot with his brand new OM1).
> But they don't see the light of day often as they're all on slides.
> Such a pity.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
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