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Tina
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> My biggest problem with your plan is that you could be like me. My two
> Minolta scanners have shot craps and there's no one to fix them. Then what?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tina Manley
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:50 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Scanning Question
>
> Storage is cheap. Scan them at the highest possible resolution and include
> multiple exposure scans, if possible. You don't want to have to rescan
> everything, believe me! Get every bit of information that is available in
> the slide or negative and save as DNG. Be sure your scanner is actually
> scanning at 5400 dpi and is not interpolating, though. You need to be
> scanning at the highest actual dpi that your scanner can do without
> interpolating.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jon Mitchell <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > One of the rare occasions when I come out of lurk mode, and it is to ask
> > for
> > the collective advice of the list ...
> >
> > For some time (OK, a few years !) I have been playing with a Minolta Scan
> > Elite 5400 and a bunch of slides - some shot with my old OMs (obligatory
> > OM
> > content !). I am using VueScan to scan the files as DNG, and then
> > importing
> > them to Lightroom. Early tests had me weighing up file size vs image
> > quality. Scanning at full resolution and colour depth (5400dpi and
> 48-bit
> > RGB) produces file sizes of round 220 MB - so I settled on 2700dpi and
> > 24-bit RGB, as this produced file sizes of around 20MB (about the same as
> > the DNG files from my e330).
> >
> > My initial thoughts were that if I ever wanted to print something big, or
> > get a really good quality scan, I could always go back and scan that
> > particular slide or negative again at higher resolution. As time has
> > started to go on, however, I have worried more and more about this. I am
> > wondering if I should perhaps be getting every last drop of quality out
> of
> > the slides & negatives while I still can ? My concerns centre around:
> >
> > 1) The scanner won't last forever. Good scanners seem to be getting more
> > and more difficult to come by (I picked this one up 2nd hand, and that
> > took
> > some searching).
> >
> > 2) I recently inherited a huge stash of slides from my Aunt and my Father
> > which I am going through and trying to scan and sort. Some of these are
> > invaluable family photos, and whilst some are in remarkably good
> condition
> > (some from the 60's look like they were taken yesterday !), some are
> > showing
> > signs of age.
> >
> > More recent tests (perhaps with a more critical eye, having gained more
> > experience) show that the 5400 dpi scans do hold a good amount more
> detail
> > (when zoomed in). More confusingly, the 48-bit RGB test scan has shown
> > considerably more sharpness than the 24-bit RGB scan. This last point
> > confuses me as I thought the bit depth was only concerning colour
> > rendition
> > - not detail.
> >
> > So the question really is, what do you guys do when scanning your
> precious
> > slides & negatives ? I would particularly welcome the thoughts of those
> > here who seem to spend or have spent a lot of time scanning - I'm
> thinking
> > of Tina and Ken particularly (probably because they are prolific posters
> > !),
> > but I'm sure there are others.
> >
> > Thanks for any help and advice - not sure quite where to go with this at
> > the
> > moment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
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