I echo your advice Garth. I've said it before, "Garbage in garbage out."
If you work with the best possible image you can (grearter number of pixels)
the higher the quality of the image. That's why I chose to reject the ES-10
and go with the Nikon LS-30. It'll give me more pixels to work with. The
optimized and reduced web image will have been derived from a higher quality
scan.
Ron
caesar2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Ron & Mary Spolarich
www.mscollectibles.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] scanners for dummies
> At 08:16 PM 11/19/99 -0800, Acer V wrote:
> >Curious, but do the members here take such meticulous care for scans even
> >for webpage display at mediocre resolutions in the interests of
reasonable
> >downloads (around 50kb normally, ) for JPGs sized roughly 640x480?
>
> Yes. The general rule I follow is "start with the highest quality you
possibly can, and work from there." Actually, come to think of it, that's
the way I work in my business, too. So far, the clients seem to think it's
a good rule. ;-)
>
> >Sounds to me like an rather long sequence of effort for little gain.
>
> In terms of actual time, it's very quick, once you're used to it. And in
fact, the only reason some people see "little gain" in the finished product
is because they're also viewing the finished product on mediocre monitors or
with mediocre video cards (or both). Makes a *big* difference.
>
> Garth
>
>
>
>
> "A bad day doing photography is better
> than a good day doing just about
> anything else."
>
> The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
>
> http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
>
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