With the exception of images made with exceptional care with an
exceptional lens on an exceptional tripod you are unlikely to find that
your film has any more detail than about 40 lines/mm or roughly 2,000
lines for the less than 24mm height of a mounted slide frame. That's
not so much a statement about Kodachrome as it is the limitations of
hand held photography. Most hand held photographs will likely turn out
to have even less resolution... more like 30 lines/mm or even 20.
If you have a 40 lines/mm slide and scan it at 4000 dpi you will likely
capture everything that can be captured. Your scanner's maximum
resolution of 5400 dpi will not likely be necessary. Pick out a few
slides that you think look very sharp and try scanning them at say
about; 3000, 4000 and the max 5400 dpi. If you can't tell the
difference between 5400 and 4000 or even between 4000 and 3000 then
there's no need to waste the scan time and file space for very large scans.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/18/2011 6:16 AM, Terry wrote:
> G'day Joel.
>
> I've got a ton of Kodachrome to scan. My scanner is a Konica Minolta 5400.
> No longer made or supported.
>
> I use Windows 7 and will go to Vuescan, and then get a Kodachrome colour
> calibration slide. The only way to get all these done is batch processing.
>
> What do people do when scanning their Kodachrome? The biggest scan size is
> 233 Mb per slide as a tif. What size and type of file do people go to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Foxy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Wilcox [mailto:jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2011 4:19 AM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] Old friends (was "Kodak's long fade...")
>
> Hey Foxy,
> Finished my last rolls of KM about a year ago. I still have seven rolls to
> scan and need to do it soon as my one last XP computer that can run the
> scanner is on the verge of death. Rode my motorcycle last summer through the
> town in Kansas where all the last developing of Kchrome was done. Took a
> picture of the motorcycle later. On Pikes Peak. Digital.
> (Oh well, I was out for hiking not photography.) Got to get some remedy for
> the scanning thing. I've slowed myself down with the digital, but I miss
> the deliberation, doubt, and surprise of film, though not enough to be Ken
> Ag Schozz.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Terry wrote:
>> Still out here. Not doing much with photography. Sort of lost interest
>> after Kodachrome was wound down.
>>
>> I still keep the occasional eye on the list.
>>
>> Not so much the black stump and the mountains. Think Deliverance.......
>>
>> Foxy 8-)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2011 10:17 AM
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Kodak's long fade to black - latimes.com
>>
>> Jeez, you still out there mate?!
>> Anywho, you're not that far past the black stump are you?
>> I was thinking of my experiences out in the Pilbarra.
>> Some scary weird nutters out there.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/12/2011, at 11:11 PM, Terry wrote:
>>
>>> I represent that comment!
>>>
>>> Foxy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 6:18 AM
>>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Kodak's long fade to black - latimes.com
>>>
>>> OK - what's the deal? We have long experience of managing large and
>>> empty places with small pockets of slightly deranged inhabitants.
>>> Or perhaps you could just hand it over to Exxon?
>>> Andrew Fildes
>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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