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Subject: [OM] Re: slightly OT - UK - film scanning - business proposition?
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:48:18 +0100
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
<|_:-)_|>
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
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