From my perspective, scanning is no joy. I used to have the scanner you mention (it broke, so Sony paid me for it instead of repairing it). Dust, film flatness, color, focusing problems all take a lot of time to figure out, then you through different films at it - oh, brother. Now I'm about ready to get a Nikon to replace the Minolta, and, although I'm using Hamrick Vuescan, I'm not looking forward to the time required to get good scans.
Frankly, I'm doing this to get older images into digital format to share with friends and family. I don't need fine-art quality, but clean, color-balanced scans that accurately represent the original image with a minimum of fuss would be nice. Anybody know of a decent service for this? And, yes, I'm aware of the hard-core scan-heads that are rolling their eyes at this post. :) Tim Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Merely haven't done any colour film scanning since I got my DS, almost a > year ago. Now, I've had to find I've lost about three years' worth of > film scans and I'm starting all over again. > > Seems I had almost forgotten what a drag this is. How can it be that a > 700 euro dedicated film scanner and a computer that performance-wise > would have been the pride and joy of every met service, just a few years > ago, aren't able to produce a remotely correct colour balance while > every cheapo digicam can? > > Still have to see the first colour picture from my DS come out only half > (make that a tenth, actually) as bad as what I'm getting from a > computer/scanner system that has cost several times the price of the DS. > > Ralf > > *) Minolta 5400 > **) Mac Dual G5 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
